Category: Articles

Barnardo’s listening to Black communities and adapting to meet changing needs

Stuart Mitchell

Barnardo’s is building on its long history of supporting children and families from all backgrounds, while also listening directly to Black communities and adapting to meet changing needs.  This is the message from the UK’s leading children’s charity after it hosted a virtual webinar at the end of Black History Month discussing what’s next for the charity and also what needs to change to create a more equal society.  Barnardo’s ultimate aim is to achieve better outcomes for more children, and in the summer announced its commitment to being an…

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UK social impact investment market now worth more than £5 billion

Stuart Mitchell

Social impact investing in the UK has grown six-fold over the past eight years, increasing from £830 million in 2011 to £5.1 billion in 2019, according to figures released by Big Society Capital, the UK’s leading social impact investor [1]. Big Society Capital’s latest annual market estimate shows that most of the growth during this period has come through alternatives to traditional bank lending, which have scaled 20-fold from £169 million (2011) to £3,388 million (2019). This diversity in the social impact investment market has enabled different types of investor…

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Culture in crisis – UNESCO publication offers tips for resilient creative industries beyond COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

The health crisis has had a profound impact on the culture sector and its workers. Due to the often-informal nature of their employment, cultural professionals are often excluded from conventional social or economic safety nets, making measures tailored to workers in the creative sector vital for their survival. In the new publication Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector, UNESCO provides guidance to policymakers on how to effectively address culture in COVID-19 recovery plans and rebuild the creative industry stronger. At the onset of the pandemic, UNESCO began…

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Kallø inspires scratch cooking creativity with BOSH! and Tasty collaborations

Stuart Mitchell

Kallø, the organic stocks and rice cake brand owned by Wessanen UK, is partnering with the UK’s bestselling vegan authors BOSH! and BuzzFeed’s Tasty, to showcase its leading, organic stocks range with easy-to-follow recipes. The new campaign aims to show consumers that super-tasty food doesn’t need to be complicated and that quality ingredients deserve to be paired with quality stock. It will reinforce the fact that Kallo stocks only contain carefully selected organic, good, honest ingredients – with no added artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Launching earlier this month, and…

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Charities And Social Enterprises Forced To Pull Back On Services Amid Income Reductions

Stuart Mitchell

The events of 2020 have forced charities and social enterprises to reduce their services in the face of declining revenues, new research from Charity Bank reveals.  The loans and savings bank for positive social change polled more than 100 of its charity and social enterprise customers to understand how they have been impacted by the pandemic this year.  COVID-19 has had significant financial implications with 58% of respondents seeing their income reduce. 1 Almost half (49%) feel that they have been unable to effectively deliver services, while 52% have delayed…

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