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Newcastle Building Society puts communities first with £1m donation to help tackle region’s biggest challenges

Stuart Mitchell

Newcastle Building Society announces a £1m donation to help improve lives for people across the region, by tackling some of the biggest challenges facing communities in the North East, Cumbria, and North Yorkshire. The donation into the Newcastle Building Society Community Fund boosts the total value of the investment to more than £3.5m, making it one of the largest of its type in the country. The fund, which is held by the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, is expected to pay out around £150,000 each and every year…

The One Club’s Tay Guan Hin Receives 2025 AAMS Hall of Fame Visionary Award

Stuart Mitchell

The Association of Advertising & Marketing Singapore (AAMS), the leading industry body representing Singapore’s advertising and marketing community, has honored The One Club-APAC’s Tay Guan Hin as recipient of its 2025 Hall of Fame Visionary Award. The prestigious award, presented at last week’s Singapore Admarcom Festival 2025, celebrates an individual who has consistently demonstrated exceptional creativity, innovation, and strategic brilliance in the field of advertising.   Honorees have significantly influenced the direction and landscape of advertising in Singapore by taking risks, pushing boundaries, and inspiring others through innovative campaigns and…

UK companies revised marketing budgets up marginally as caution remains

Stuart Mitchell

After the uncertainty surrounding the Autumn Budget led firms to hit the pause button in the third quarter, the latest IPA Bellwether Report highlighted renewed marketing budget growth across the UK in the final three months of 2024. Over a fifth (21.7%) of panellists reported an increase in their total marketing budgets during the fourth quarter, which was higher than the almost 19.9% who made cuts, resulting in a net balance of +1.9% (up from 0.0% in Q3). This meant that upward revisions to advertising spend have been registered in…

More Than 150 Nobel And World Food Prize Laureates Issue Unprecedented Wake-Up Call Over Hunger Tipping Point

Stuart Mitchell

More than 150 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates have made an unprecedented plea for financial and political backing to develop “moonshot” technologies with the greatest chance of averting a hunger catastrophe in the next 25 years. In an open letter signed by 133 winners of the Nobel Prize and World Food Prize, the signatories warned that the world was “not even close” to meeting future food needs, with an estimated 700 million people going hungry today and an additional 1.5 billion people to feed by 2050. The letter predicted…

‘Pesticides buzz off’: More than 1.6 million people call for a ban on bee-killing pesticides

Stuart Mitchell

A petition signed by more than 1.6 million people urging the government to enforce a total ban on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides has been handed in to the Department of Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) by environmental campaigners. The petition, which was coordinated by Greenpeace UK, has amassed a staggering 1,645,000 signatures from the British public and was delivered directly to Defra for the environment minister, Emma Hardy. It was delivered in the form of a bee hotel by campaigners dressed in ‘worker’ bee outfits carrying placards reading, ‘Pesticides Buzz…