Day: 9 September 2026

Fairtrade comment on first British chocolate bar

Stuart Mitchell

Commenting on University of Reading student Maha Khan’s chocolate bar, made with 100% UK ingredients, Marina El-Hasni, Fairtrade Foundation Senior Sustainable Sourcing Manager for Cocoa says the story underlines a bigger challenge:  “This British-made chocolate bar is a striking reminder that the future of much-loved foods like chocolate cannot be taken for granted. As Maha found out, chocolate is a really hard thing to make — and that is precisely why we cannot take the smallholder farmers overseas who grow cocoa for granted. Cocoa is highly sensitive to changes in…

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Asda develops new breakfast cereal for donation to Alliance Food Sourcing and Felix

Stuart Mitchell

Asda is donating almost 200 tonnes of breakfast cereal as part of its partnership with Alliance Food Sourcing and Felix, the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, as the retailer supports families facing food insecurity over the summer holidays. The donation will see Asda provide a newly created cereal made from its own-label porridge oats and muesli, ensuring a steady supply of a key cupboard staple to households in need. The cereal is being produced and packed during quieter hours at Asda’s Talford factory, before being redistributed nationally via Felix’s own…

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Blue Earth Summit opens applications for £15,000 BE:IMPACT PRIZE, putting UK charity campaigns centre stage

Stuart Mitchell

Blue Earth Summit has today opened entries for BE:IMPACT, a new prize fund for small and mid-sized UK charities, offering a £10,000 top prize and £1,000 to each of five runners-up, funded by Founding Partner The Kindness Forecast and awarded at a live final on the Main Stage at Woolwich Works on Thursday 15 October 2026. Lasting progress depends on those who act where profit cannot, and BE:IMPACT exists to make sure their stories get told. The impact is already there: charities across the UK are delivering extraordinary, measurable work.…

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