Author: Stuart Mitchell

Top Honors for VML, Scholz & Friends and Omnicom at Gerety Awards 2025 as Pinterest wins the brand new In-House Agency of the Year Award

Stuart Mitchell

VML has been awarded Global Network of the Year, Scholz & Friends wins Global Agency of the Year, Omnicom is Holding Company of the Year and Pinterest wins In-House Agency of the Year. Scholz & Friends Berlin gets the recognition of Global Agency of the Year with 5 Gold, 6 Silver, 1 bronze and 5 shortlists. VML is the Network of the Year, followed by BBDO, DDB and Publicis. Omnicom is the 2025 Holding Company of the Year, followed by WPP. Pinterest House of Creative receives the brand new In-House…

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Independent Age appoints Director of Services

Stuart Mitchell

Marios Leptos has been appointed as Director of Services at national older people’s financial hardship charity Independent Age. Marios is an experienced leader, having most recently held the role of Director of Services Delivery at Citizens Advice. He joined Independent Age on 8 September 2025, bringing with him a strong track record of supporting people through complex systems and ensuring services are shaped around their needs. He brings more than 20 years of both service delivery and change experience across the public and charity sectors and impressed the organisation’s staff…

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Pennies’ Micro-Donation Day 2025 Raises £42,500 in Just 24 Hours

Stuart Mitchell

On Monday 25th August, Pennies, the trusted leader in micro-donations, celebrated another hugely successful Micro-Donation Day. Thousands of shoppers chose to give a few pence to charity when they paid digitally, raising £42,500 through more than 144,000 donations in just 24 hours, all for vital causes.  Partners continued to raise awareness of Micro-Donation Day, and the collective impact of small change donations, all week long – from 25th to 31st of August. Across the week, more than 1,130,000 individual donations were made across all Pennies partners, supporting charities such as Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex, Cancer…

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A manifesto for change demands action for one in five Scots

Stuart Mitchell

A BOLD manifesto has been launched by Scotland’s biggest health charity representing four long-term conditions, calling on Scotland’s next government to make urgent, meaningful improvements for the one in five people living with chest, heart and stroke conditions or Long Covid. The new 2026 manifesto was unveiled on Monday 8th September, outlining a series of lived experienced, evidenced based policy asks developed directly from the voices and experiences of those living with these health conditions. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) is behind the call to action, with the manifesto…

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New Research Reveals Parents Are Key To Young Peoples’ Mental Health But Many Feel Unprepared

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of Hello Yellow Day on 10th October, new research commissioned by M&S and YoungMinds, the leading mental health charity for young people, reveals a concerning gap between young people’s needs and parents’ confidence in supporting them. 38% of young people say they feel most comfortable turning to a parent or carer when struggling with their mental health. Yet, 35% of parents say that the worry they’ll make things worse by talking about it makes it difficult to have the conversation, and 30% have avoided conversations altogether because they’re unsure…

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