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19 startups and small businesses awarded a share of over £500,000 to accelerate the design of food produced for nature to thrive

Stuart Mitchell

19 startups and small businesses who have successfully made it through to the Production Phase of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Big Food Redesign Challenge have been awarded a share of £500 thousand to help them on their journey to producing food designed for nature to thrive.  These ambitious organisations now have the opportunity to invest in the development of their products, ensuring that they not only align with the Circular Design for Food Framework but are also able to deliver on their plans at the same pace and scale as…

Textile Recycling Sector Faces Unprecedented Financial Crisis Amid Global Market Challenges

Stuart Mitchell

The Textile Recycling Association (TRA) are sounding the alarm about the imminent collapse of the textile recycling sector due to global market challenges. As the recognised trade association for over 75% of the UK’s Used Textiles collectors and sorters, we have been made aware of their plight by our members. There is real fear in the industry about being unable to collect from charity shops, recycling centres and community textile banks, due to reaching capacity at processing plants. The wider impact of the UK sector not collecting waste textiles will…

Pan European Nonprofit Pulse Report 2024 reveals how nonprofits are facing greatest challenges head on

Stuart Mitchell

Nonprofits across Europe are doing more with less amid a perfect storm of rising service demand, increasing workload, and squeezed income, according to the latest annual Nonprofit Pulse report, by the European Fundraising Association in partnership with the UK’s Chartered Institute of Fundraising and Salesforce. Workload, raising sufficient funds, and supporting staff and their wellbeing are the biggest challenges, with just 6% of respondents unaffected by the cost of living crisis, and a fifth (20%) concerned about the future. Once again facing their challenges head on, many nonprofits are responding by seizing the opportunities available to them…

AST Networks are proud sponsors of all-female climate scientists North Pole B.I.G. ski expedition

Stuart Mitchell

AST Networks are proud to sponsor, for the second year running, an all-female group of climate scientists on their Before It’s Gone (BIG) expedition to the North Pole. The expedition will be headed by Felicity Aston, who has spent the last 25 years exploring the polar regions, beginning her career as a meteorologist posted in British Antarctic Survey research station on the Antarctic Peninsula. This sea ice research expedition will see the scientists ski approximately 110km to collect vital data and samples, to better understand climate change in the Arctic,…

Alliance launches Inclusion Fund for non-English language writers

Stuart Mitchell

To open up the conversation about philanthropy, Alliance magazine has launched the Alliance Inclusion Fund. They have have posted the following post on their website here. We want to open and broaden the philanthropy conversation.   That means taking active steps to include, welcome and amplify previously excluded voices and making them more central to the philanthropy conversation.  Following our external EDI report, and as part of our ongoing efforts to find better ways to include an array of diverse voices, Alliance is launching a new Inclusion Fund.   The…