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ASA – New rules on ads for “less healthy” food and drink products

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: New rules on ads for “less healthy” food and drink products. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Today, we’re issuing a consultation on the implementation of new rules further limiting food and drink advertising to children on TV, and in on-demand programme services (ODPS) and paid online ad media. In 2022, the UK Government introduced…

XPRIZE Launches Largest Competition In History – $101m XPRIZE Healthspan To Drive Healthier Aging For All

Stuart Mitchell

XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, today launches $101M XPRIZE Healthspan. This 7-year global competition is the largest competition in history and the largest XPRIZE to date, offering $111 million total between the prize purse and a bonus award. XPRIZE Healthspan will award $101 million in prize funding to the team who successfully develops a proactive, accessible therapeutic that restores muscle, cognition, and immune function by a minimum of 10 years, with a goal of 20 years, in persons aged…

National Garden Scheme: A record £3,403,960 donated to some of the UK’s best-loved nursing and health charities

Stuart Mitchell

2023 proved to be a record year for the National Garden Scheme with £3,403,960 donated to the charity’s beneficiaries. This represents a superlative achievement by the garden owners and county team volunteers who together worked tirelessly to host open days at 3,389 gardens across the year.   The lion’s share, £2,475,000 goes to some of the UK’s best-loved nursing and health charities*, many of which have continued to provide vital support to the NHS and communities across the UK in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and who are now struggling…

The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD 100 Million To Test and Scale Climate and Health Solutions Globally

Stuart Mitchell

The Rockefeller Foundation is announcing a USD 100 million commitment to address the health impacts of climate change. Joining 40 multilateral development banks, governments, philanthropies, and civil society organizations, the Foundation also endorsed the Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions, launched today at the World Climate Action Summit, to accelerate investments in and policy development on climate-health solutions that increase country ownership, accessibility, and long-term impact. “Health is the human face of climate change, and Health Day at COP28 is a historic moment for health and climate leaders…

Sodexo Health & Care donates 100,000 meals to The Bread and Butter Thing

Stuart Mitchell

Over Christmas Sodexo Health & Care donated 100,000 frozen meals to support food redistribution charity, The Bread and Butter Thing, provide much-needed food to those in need of support this Christmas. Working with Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation and its supply partners Brakes and Lineage Logistics the frozen meals have been delivered to The Bread & Butter Thing so they can use them to provide nutritious hot meals to families across the UK over the Christmas and New Year period. The meals include a range of traditional favourites such as shepherd’s…