Month: October 2025

New report shows UK nature bearing brunt of chaotic climate

Stuart Mitchell

The Wildlife Trusts have published their new assessment of the effects of climate change on nature across the UK. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across The Wildlife Trusts’ 2,600 nature reserves in response to the changing climate and extreme weather over the past year.  Whilst summer’s headlines were dominated by heatwaves and drought, the report reveals that over the past 12 months it has been extreme changes in weather patterns that have been the most damaging overall, with the natural world bearing much…

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New guide empowers communities to lead nature recovery in Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance hopes to inspire local community groups to help Scotland become the world’s first ‘Rewilding Nation’, with the launch of a practical new guide. Available in both Gaelic and English, the guide to rewilding for community groups provides practical advice, case studies, and resources to help them start rewilding projects, and grow existing ones. The guide was developed in collaboration with community groups and features quotes and advice from the front lines of nature restoration. Rewilding is the large-scale restoration of ecosystems to a state where nature…

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Join Europe’s leading impact event as ImpactFest returns next week!

Stuart Mitchell

One of the absolute highlights of last year was our trip to The Hague to visit ImpactFest and see the many iniatitives they were working on, and we are delighted to be returning this year. If you are around next week we can’t recommend it enough – come and say hello, if you can’t make it this year put it in your diary for next year.  This is one of the trips we did last year to The New Farm. This is the interview I did with Aldeman Robert Barker…

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New facility launched to strengthen water enterprises and expand safe water access

Stuart Mitchell

Incofin Investment Management, together with Aqua for All and Norfund, recently announced the launch of a new Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) for the Water Access Acceleration Fund (W2AF).  The facility is designed to help promising water enterprises grow stronger and reach further. It will give them the tools, expertise, and systems they need to grow sustainably, improve service quality, and expand safe drinking water access to underserved communities.  The announcement follows a month of high-level gatherings at World Water Week, the World Economic Forum, and the UN Global Compact, where…

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RSM UK and Anthony Nolan celebrate 15-year partnership with lifesaving milestone

Stuart Mitchell

Leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK is celebrating its 15-year partnership with Anthony Nolan – marking the milestone by funding its 10,000th courier trip to deliver life-saving stem cells to patients in need across the UK. Anthony Nolan is a charity that matches potential stem cell donors to patients with blood cancer and blood disorders, while carrying out pioneering research to increase the success of stem cell transplants. In collaboration with RSM UK it runs a courier programme where volunteers transport donated stem cells to a hospital to…

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