Author: Stuart Mitchell

Unlocking untapped potential: LSB launches report on financing for ethnic minority-led businesses

Stuart Mitchell

The Lending Standards Board (LSB) has recently announced the release of its latest inclusion report, ‘Increasing Access to Finance for Ethnic Minority Led Businesses’. The report, launched at an event in London last night, represents the third instalment of the LSB’s series on inclusion. It highlights the barriers faced by ethnic minority led businesses and underscores the crucial role that financial institutions play in unlocking the untapped potential. Ethnic minority entrepreneurs, including those from Black, Asian, and other minority groups, contribute an estimated £25 billion to the UK economy annually,…

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Sky Becomes First UK Publisher to Report Off-Platform Distributed Video

Stuart Mitchell

Sky Media, the sales arm of Sky has achieved a significant first in as the UK as the only publisher to be able to report ‘off-platform’ distributed video, following development by Ipsos iris and endorsement by UKOM. This is a significant enhancement to the industry standard for online measurement, which previously only reported video content served on a media owner’s owned and operated platforms. As media owners continue to adapt their online distribution strategy to serve content across social media and third-party platforms, it is crucial for the measurement world…

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JustGiving helps to raise £3.4m for Macmillan Coffee Morning in first year as fundraising partner

Stuart Mitchell

JustGiving helped to raise more than £3.4m for Macmillan in its first year as the fundraising partner for the charity’s annual Coffee Morning initiative. Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest annual fundraising event to support people living with cancer and has been running since 1990. The very first Coffee Morning simply encouraged people to get together over a coffee and donate the cost of their drink to Macmillan. Since then, Coffee Morning has grown, with hundreds of thousands of people across the UK gathering to enjoy a cup of coffee, share…

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Thrive Renewables launches new share offer as part of five-year plan to double generation capacity

Stuart Mitchell

Thrive Renewables Plc, which has been funding, building and operating clean energy projects for almost thirty years, has launched a new share offer to support its aim to double the amount of renewable energy generation capacity in its portfolio over the next five years. Equity raised through the crowdfunding offer hosted by Triodos Bank UK will be used to build new onshore wind, solar, geothermal and battery storage projects. The company aims to help to transform the UK’s electricity system, reducing its reliance on imported fossil fuels and ultimately reducing…

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Two thirds of UK SME leaders seek data privacy reform to address GDPR shortcomings

Stuart Mitchell

Two thirds of SMEs (66%) are supportive of the UK Government introducing updated and modernised data privacy regulation to address inherent challenges of GDPR, according to a new study by the UK’s marketing trade body, the Data & Marketing Association (DMA UK). The DMA’s new report: ‘Data Horizons: How UK SMEs and Consumers View the Future of Privacy Regulation’, reveals there is strong demand among SME business owners for revised regulation that is fit for purpose, putting the customer at the heart of data privacy provisions as the digital economy…

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