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Pioneering Project to Create Virtual Charity Shop in the Metaverse 

Stuart Mitchell

Scotland’s largest health charity has teamed up with university researchers to create a charity shop in the metaverse. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) is believed to be one of the first UK charities to set up shop in the virtual world to raise vital funds.  Researchers from the University of Strathclyde’s Business School (SBS) are working with the organisation’s management, volunteers, and customers to understand their requirements, before building and launching a CHSS metaverse and digital assets. The metaverse – the meeting of physical and virtual spaces accessed through computers…

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Business Debtline launches new programme to tackle finance skills gap

Stuart Mitchell

Business Debtline has launched a new programme, supported by Aviva, to tackle the financial skills and confidence gap faced by many small business owners.  The charity’s Building Up Business programme, which draws on Business Debtline’s expertise as the UK’s Centre of Excellence for business debt, aims to build the financial resilience of small business owners across the UK. Findings from the charity highlight the challenges small business owners who contact the service face. Half (51 percent) of Business Debtline callers surveyed were not confident in constructing a business plan before…

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Back Up is The October Club’s 2024 Charity Partner

Stuart Mitchell

The October Club is delighted to announce that their chosen charity partner for 2024 is Back Up. For almost 40 years, Back Up has helped people and their families to rebuild their lives after a devastating spinal cord injury. Our award-winning, practical services are designed and delivered by people affected by spinal cord injury challenging the perceptions of what is possible and increase injured individuals’ skills and confidence. Back Up was founded in 1986 by James Bond stuntman, Mike Nemesvary, a world champion freestyle skier who broke his neck during…

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Richard Gadd Helps Survivors Move ‘Beyond The Silence’

Stuart Mitchell

Male sexual abuse charity, We Are Survivors, has launched its brand new quarterly magazine, Beyond The Silence, with the help of the creator of the Netflix international smash hit Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd. This is the first ever magazine from the organisation and has been created to ensure that space is created for the important discussion on male victims / survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation. Magazine Editor, Grahame Robertson, said: “Whilst the newsletter format served us well, our organisational vision is for a society where NO male survivor…

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Anton, Jean And Sean Launch Big Scottish Breakfast

Stuart Mitchell

Following his stay in the explosive Love Island: All Stars villa earlier this year, Anton Danyluk has faced an even bigger challenge: a pancake-decorating competition with a group of ten-year-olds at a Glasgow primary school. The telly star was joined by presenters Jean Johansson and Sean Batty at Battlefield Primary School in the city’s southside in May to help launch the STV Children’s Appeal’s 2024 Big Scottish Breakfast event, in partnership with Kellogg’s. A fun favourite in the charity’s fundraising calendar, the campaign raises money to provide nutritious breakfasts for…

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