Month: May 2026

20,000 chances to breathe: small charity achieves huge respite break milestone for unpaid carers across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Carefree, the award-winning tech-first charity that turns donated hotel rooms into life changing breaks for unpaid carers, has recently announced it has delivered its 20,000th break. The milestone reflects a significant acceleration in the charity’s growth and a growing recognition of the urgent need for carer respite across the UK. Carefree works by connecting full-time unpaid carers with donated hotel rooms giving carers (and a companion) access to two 1-2 night stays for a small admin fee. Since its founding in 2017, the charity has grown from a small tech…

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Webmart is awarded King’s Award for Enterprise 2026

Stuart Mitchell

Webmart, the sustainable print and marketing agency, has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise, in recognition of its outstanding achievement in sustainable development. This year, only 185 businesses across the UK have received a King’s Award – one of the highest honours a UK business can achieve. Webmart, one of the top scoring B Corps globally, employs 41 people and is based in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. The company, which recently celebrated its 30-year anniversary, was founded with a ‘do good, be good’ ethos to do business differently as…

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ILO and Responsible Minerals Initiative partner to address child labour in mineral supply chains

Stuart Mitchell

The International Labour Organization’s Child Labour Platform (ILO CLP) and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) have formalized a strategic partnership to combine their expertise, networks and influence in support of the elimination of child labour in mineral supply chains. The partnership reflects a shared recognition that tackling child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) requires coordinated, multi-stakeholder responses that bridge the public, intergovernmental and private sectors. Growing due diligence obligations, alongside persistent governance challenges in high-risk sourcing contexts, make such collaboration both timely and necessary. The ILO CLP, as…

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New CIPR paper calls on lobbying review to go further than previous recommendations

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has published a new white paper calling on the Ethics and Integrity Commission to go further in its recommendations than its predecessor, the Committee on Standards in Public Life did as part of its review of Westminster’s lobbying laws. The paper – Easy Wins, Empty Gains – examines each of the nine recommendations on lobbying reform made by the Committee on Standards in Public Life in their 2021 Upholding Standards in Public Life – Standards Matter 2 review. It assigns a red, amber, or green rating to each recommendation…

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Reports to police of online violence against women journalists double since 2020, with one in four experiencing related anxiety and/or depression

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day earlier this month on 3 May, UN Women, The Nerve, and partners released a new report highlighting the growing and increasingly sophisticated forms of online violence faced by women in public life—particularly women journalists and media professionals. According to Tipping point: Online violence impacts, manifestations and redress in the AI age, 12 per cent of women human rights defenders, activists, journalists, media workers, and other public communicators report having experienced the non-consensual sharing of personal images, including intimate or sexual content. Six per cent…

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