Cancer Research UK tops Savanta’s Most Loved UK Charity Brand rankings, with healthcare and pet charities dominating

Cancer Research UK is the UK’s Most Loved Charity Brand, taking top spot from last year’s winner Macmillan Cancer Support, according to market research company Savanta.  Savanta’s Most Loved Charity Brands surveyed 60,000 UK adults between 1 April 2023 and 31st March 2024 to give a comprehensive view of the third sector brands that they ‘love’, using Savanta’s BrandVue Charities platform. Healthcare and animal welfare charities continue to be top performers, with Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support, Dogs Trust and the RSPCA making up four of the top five.…

Danone opens the next chapter of its Renew strategy, projecting the company into the future of Health and Nutrition

Danone’s next chapter will build on the fundamentals the company reestablished over the last 2 years: science and innovation, operational and executional discipline, and proactive portfolio management. Danone will project itself into the future of Health and Nutrition by: Gradually pivoting the way it addresses its categories – notably Protein and Gut Health; Broadening some of its business models, accelerating in Away-from-home and Medical Nutrition; Further expanding its geographic footprint. Antoine de Saint-Affrique, Chief Executive Officer, said: “The Danone of today is very different from the Danone of 2 years…

Aberdeen Samaritans team up with Cala Homes for ‘Constructing Healthy Minds’ video

Samaritans Scotland’s Aberdeen branch has teamed up with Cala Homes to create a short film to help increase awareness of mental health issues and the construction industry. The ‘Constructing Healthy Minds’ film was produced by Samaritans volunteers with Cala Homes (North) and Pink Sphynx Media, with funding from LNER’s Customer and Community Investment Fund. Samaritans has been Cala’s charity partner since 2020 following the charity’s call for better mental and emotional health support for middle aged men, who are three times more likely to take their own lives than women.…

BHF becomes a funding charity partner of Our Future Health

The British Heart Foundation are delighted to become a funding charity partner in Our Future Health, a leading health research programme.   Despite advances in healthcare and medicine, large numbers of people in the UK still spend many years of their later life in poor health because of common diseases and health conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and stroke.  Our Future Health helps health researchers to tackle these major diseases. Using data, Our Future Health aims to develop new ways to detect diseases at an earlier…

Star Athletes Share Their Mental Health “Rituals,” Encouraging Fans to Prioritize Their Mental Health

11 professional sports leagues and organizations teamed up with the national “Love, Your Mind” campaign to announce a comprehensive mental health partnership with the premiere of a series of public service advertisements (PSAs). The series, titled “The Rituals We Share,” features star athletes sharing their “rituals,” or steps they take, to care for their minds on and off the field – encouraging sports fans across the country to prioritize their mental health and explore free resources from LoveYourMindToday.org. The “Love, Your Mind” campaign from Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the…