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Mindful Business Charter Announces New Guidelines to Tackle Mental Health Challenges in Legal Practice

Stuart Mitchell

The Mindful Business Charter (MBC) has issued comprehensive Best Practice Guidelines aimed at addressing mental health challenges within the legal profession.  The guidelines were developed by a working group of senior leaders in the profession, supported by academics and mental health professionals to address ongoing concerns through cultural change. The legal profession is a demanding and rewarding environment, in which there are significant risks of  high performance coming at the expense of wellbeing. The guidelines seek to create meaningful and informed systems that balance wellbeing with performance for long-term success.…

Digital Poverty Alliance Launch Tech4Young Carers in Cambridgeshire, to bridge the digital divide with essential technology and education

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has launched the Tech4Young Carers scheme designed to combat digital poverty among young carers in Fenland, South Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, giving them the essential technology, internet connectivity, and digital skills training to bridge the digital divide. The Tech4Young Carers scheme will provide digital access to 100 young carers, aged 14-25, who provide unpaid care for a family member or close friend dealing with a long-term or terminal illness, disability, mental health condition, age-related frailty, or struggles with addiction. The scheme launched today in Huntingdon, where…

World-renowned artist’s Field of Light installation comes to Salcombe

Stuart Mitchell

Acclaimed artist Bruce Munro is bringing his stunning art installation Field of Light to Salcombe to help celebrate the RNLI’s 200th anniversary of saving lives at sea. The Salcombe Field of Light is an art installation of 20,000 fibre optic lights on stems that will glow across 35,000 square meters of fields opposite Salcombe. It opened on Saturday 5 October and will run to 10 January, 2025, from dusk to 10pm daily. Over 12 months of planning and more than 300 volunteers have made possible the largest art installation of…

Global Alliance Advocates for Responsible Communication at United Nations, Supporting its Inclusion as the New 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

Stuart Mitchell

Global Alliance Advocates for Responsible Communication at United Nations, Supporting its Inclusion as the New 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management reiterates the urgent need for a dedicated SDG focused on responsible communication. Responsible communication means: Open dialogue about global challenges, such as climate change, poverty reduction and democracy. Consider dialogue as the most powerful weapon. Freedom of opinion and press. Ethical approach to organizational and institutional communications, based on facts. Fight against fake news, misinformation and any kind of propaganda. Educate…

The Pitch 2025: Marketing students respond to creative challenge from Dogs Trust

Stuart Mitchell

CIM’s 2024/25 global student marketing competition, The Pitch, has launched to students around the world and is accepting entries until Monday 2 December 2024. The competition is open to university students based anywhere around the world, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where students are studying for a marketing degree, or a business degree containing a marketing module.   Now in its fourteenth year, the competition challenges aspiring marketers from across the globe to react to a real-life brief from a top organisation. Finalists will then go head-to-head in the hope…