Search Results for: all

Marcel Paris “WoMen’s Football” for Orange Wins Best of Show At The One Show 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Marcel Paris capped off last months Creative Week in fine style, with work picking up the prestigious Best of Show and a pair of Best of Discipline wins at The One Show 2024, held this evening at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.  Best of Show went to “WoMen’s Football” for Orange by Marcel Paris, working with Les Artisans du Film Paris and Prodigious Paris.  The work also had Best of Discipline wins in Film & Video and Interactive, Online & Mobile.  Overall, the entry was awarded 10 Gold Pencils,…

Ex-offenders “neglected” in the workplace due to lack of digital skills, warns Digital Poverty Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

With current reoffending rates on the rise, prison leavers are facing neglect when seeking to reintegrate into society due to insufficient digital skills, according to the Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA). Government statistics reveal that the criminal reoffending rate is currently at 26 per cent, and has increased since 2021. The DPA believes that schemes like Tech4PrisonLeavers would largely decrease reoffending rates by providing ex-offenders with essential skills to make them an asset to society and employers. The DPA highlights a pressing need for all bodies to provide support and training…

Small Charity Week 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Wayne Murray and Vic Hancock Fell, supporters of Small Charity Week, share plans for Small Charity Week 2024 Last year was astonishing. Small Charity Week 2023 was hugely successful. We had scale, we had truth, and we had teeth. Together the sector broke all records in terms of reach, involvement and support offered. Collective humanity is amazing. But this year we need more. This year, as well as amazing practical support, we need to push for change. We need to engage with the public at scale, and we need to…

All In Reveals Updated Actions for Black Talent, Disabled Talent, and Social Mobility

Stuart Mitchell

All In has announced three updates to actions focused on Black talent, Disabled talent, and talent from Working Class backgrounds at the LEAD North summit in Manchester today as part of UK advertising’s action plan from the Advertising Association, IPA and ISBA to build a workplace where everyone feels they belong. The three new actions were informed by the results of the March 2023 All In Census, which saw its largest-ever response of 19,000 respondents and tracked industry progress two years on from the 2021 inaugural survey. Kathryn Jacob OBE,…

ICCO Calls for Urgent Action on Misinformation at UN

Stuart Mitchell

On 24th April, at the UNDP’s HQ in Geneva, ICCO’s Europe President Massimo Moriconi called for a coalition of media stakeholders and international organisations to push forward concrete actions to tackle the threat of mis and disinformation. At ICCO’s Europe Forum, a gathering of leading PR experts and national representatives from across Europe and beyond, misinformation was a lead topic alongside ICCO’s other core workstreams including climate communications, ethics, quality standards, next generation, and the next stage of ICCO’s partnership with the United Nations. Massimo shared preliminary results of a…