Author: Stuart Mitchell

PRCA Members vote for new governance structure, appoint Interim Management Board and Honorary Officers

Stuart Mitchell

Members of the PRCA have recently voted to move to a new streamlined Management and Governance Structure. Far-reaching changes will both simplify and strengthen governance, oversight, transparency and decision-making. The changes were approved at the Annual General Meeting of the Association. Members voted 100% in favour of the new Articles of Association and Bye-Laws. A new Interim Management Board will oversee a period of transition to the new structure. NEW APPOINTMENTS New Interim Management Board Members voted to approve the appointment of a new Interim Management Board, to lead PRCA…

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HeForShe summit discusses gender bias in AI and how to encourage male feminist allies

Stuart Mitchell

The growth of artificial intelligence has shown the technology’s potential to create new ways of working, but also to exacerbate existing inequalities and stereotypes. At UN Women’s recent HeForShe Summit, leaders from the public and private sectors discussed the potential risks of AI, and the need to develop the technology safely. At the summit, leaders discussed factors that are shaping dominant narratives around masculinity today, and offered concrete positive alternatives for men to foster allyship and leadership in the pursuit for gender equality under the call to be respectfully disruptive.…

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The Gradel Institute of Charity opens at New College Oxford

Stuart Mitchell

The Gradel Institute of Charity, the first Institute dedicated to the organisation of charities, rather than solely to giving, opened recently.  The Gradel Institute of Charity, based in New College, is the first of its kind. New College Warden and Chair of the Institute’s Governing Committee, Miles Young, said that it is “the first research centre in the world to concentrate on charities as organisations, not solely as a form of philanthropy”. The Institute will conduct research to educate and inform third sector organisations and will be based in a…

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New name for Tower Bridge owner and major charity funder

Stuart Mitchell

Nine-hundred-year-old charity Bridge House Estates is responsible for five Thames bridges, while its funding team, City Bridge Trust, awards over £30 million a year to organisations across London. Now, they will operate under a new name – City Bridge Foundation – chosen to bring together under one banner its dual role as bridge owner and major player in the capital’s charity sector. The foundation, whose sole trustee is the City of London Corporation, is also responsible for London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millennium Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. Giles Shilson, City Bridge…

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WRAP puts food waste on ice: more chilled and frozen food redistributed

Stuart Mitchell

On International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2023 in September, climate action NGO, WRAP, announces its annual UK Surplus Food Redistribution data. 2022 showed solid progress with approximately 170,000 tonnes of surplus food being received by redistribution organisations equating to just over 400 million meals with a value of more than £590 million. WRAP is working on projects with several redistribution organisations. One example is a refrigeration project at The Felix Project’s Poplar site in London (funded by Defra, under the Resource Action Fund) which aims to…

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