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Four Black-owned businesses secure over half a million pounds of Channel 4 advertising airtime and business mentoring from Lloyds

Stuart Mitchell

Four Black-owned businesses have been selected as the winners of Channel 4’s Black in Business 2024 initiative, backed by Lloyds to connect Black entrepreneurs with the transformative power of TV advertising and business mentoring. Now in its second year, the 2024 edition saw an exceptional standard of applicants, with an original shortlist of 20 businesses in the running for a combination of free advertising airtime, business support and their own Channel 4 TV advert. The four winning businesses of Black in Business 2024 will each receive £150,000 worth of TV…

National Trust launches HistoryScapes storytelling app to offer ‘time travel experience’ through voices from the past

Stuart Mitchell

Three National Trust properties, in partnership with the University of Exeter, feature in an immersive new app, HistoryScapes, that brings their estates’ histories to life through the eyes of ordinary people: a carpenter, a mill worker and a broom maker. HistoryScapes is a free app that takes users on GPS-triggered trails at National Trust properties to connect people to landscape heritage. Each trail is led by a historical figure and, inspired by research into them, offers a ‘living history’ format to give visitors the sense of having one foot in…

UK supply chains get safeguarding boost

Stuart Mitchell

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) awards £13 million to make UK supply chains more resilient. Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded £5 million to create a new network plus for reimagining supply chains in food, fashion and critical minerals. An additional £7.25 million has been shared among five research projects focused on strengthening the UK’s food system. New centre for reimagining supply chains The ReImagining Supply Chains Network Plus (RiSC+) will bring together experts from academia, industry and government to map out potential supply chain disruptions and find ways to…

Oxfam’s work reached 1.2 million more people last year despite drop in income

Stuart Mitchell

Oxfam GB’s work with communities to build a fairer world reached almost 11 million people in 2023/24, an increase of 1.2 million on the previous year, despite a drop in overall income. The international organisation’s annual report, published today, shows that income for the year to end of March 2024 dropped to £368 million, from £400.6 million in the previous financial year. The fall is mostly due to the fact there were two major fundraising appeals in 2022/23 – for the Türkiye Syria earthquake and Pakistan floods – which bolstered…

Chanel and the University of Cambridge extend sustainability partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Chanel and the University of Cambridge have announced the extension of their partnership for another three years, accelerating decisive action on sustainability transformation. Since the beginning of the collaboration in 2021, Chanel teams have partnered with experts from across the University, including the Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and the Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), to deliver on three core impact areas: Building sustainability skills and knowledge Through bespoke executive education programmes, nearly 500 leaders and key operational team members across Chanel have been upskilled…