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Julia Rausing Trust gives £5 million to One Small Thing to support Hope Street Residential Project

Stuart Mitchell

Julia Rausing Trust is delighted to announce a £5 million grant to One Small Thing to support operations of the organisation’s Hope Street project in Hampshire, a pilot residential alternative to custody for women and their children. The £5 million funding is the single largest donation received to date and follows previous grants in 2019 and 2022. As well as the Hope Street project, the funding will also enable the charity to drive forward the scoping and modelling needed to share learning nationally and explore opportunities for replication of the…

Industry Body Calls for Reform to Unlock UK Growth in Out of Home Advertising

Stuart Mitchell

Outsmart, the UK’s trade body for the Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry, has today unveiled its ‘Vision for Growth’, calling for a National OOH Advertising Strategy to turbocharge economic growth. With a record £1.4 billion in revenue in 2024 – up 7.7% year on year – OOH advertising is one of the UK’s fastest-growing industries. But further expansion is held back by high business rates and fragmented policies, limiting OOH advertising’s ability to invest in communities and drive growth. The industry reinvests up to 40% of its revenue into…

CAP – Spring Clean Your Allergy Advertising

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Spring Clean Your Allergy Advertising. 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. Over the years, the ASA and CAP seen marketers offer a variety of products and therapies to either “treat” or “relieve the symptoms of” hay fever and associated conditions. Whatever is being advertised, it’s important to hold the right evidence to support the claim. …

Vattenfall’s Annual and Sustainability Report 2024: The direction is clear, the pace is not

Stuart Mitchell

In 2024 Vattenfall delivered a stable financial result, advanced its key projects and sustainability goals, despite global challenges. The Annual and Sustainability Report for 2024 shows how Vattenfall continues to enable the fossil-freedom that drives society forward, as well as introduces updated strategic targets for 2030, alongside updated financial targets. Although big steps have been taken towards fossil freedom during the year, our society is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. It not only endangers our climate, but also our energy supply and our way of life. Even though the…

Bezos family announces an up to US$500 million challenge for UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund to address global child and maternal undernutrition

Stuart Mitchell

Recently, global nutrition leaders met in Paris at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to discuss how to improve access to life-saving child and maternal nutrition. To significantly address the urgent needs of the most at-risk women and children, UNICEF, in collaboration with the Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the UK government and other private and public partners, established the CNF in 2023 with a goal of raising US$2 billion by 2030. Currently, the World Bank estimates that an additional US$13 billion per year over the next…