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Future Lions 2025 Celebrates Bold Thinking and Visionary Talent

Stuart Mitchell

Future Lions, the global competition founded by AKQA in partnership with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, announced its 2025 winners today. Supported by media partner The Wall Street Journal, Future Lions continues to champion young innovators using technology and creativity to solve pressing global challenges. Now in its 20th year, Future Lions celebrates bold ideas that wouldn’t have been possible just three years ago; transforming visionary thinking into real-world impact. This year’s open brief invited young creatives to choose any brand and explore how technology can help shape…

Driving Ocean Literacy Inland: Meet the 2025 #MakeEUBlue Award Winners

Stuart Mitchell

The EU4Ocean Coalition, supported by the European Commission, is proud to announce the winners of its fourth annual “MakeEUBlue” Awards, recognising outstanding initiatives that raise awareness about the ocean’s importance and promote ocean literacy with long-term impact. The awards ceremony took place today at the European Maritime Day (EMD) 2025 in Cork, Ireland. Out of 54 applications received from diverse organisations and initiatives, a rigorous selection process, including a screening by the EU4Ocean secretariat and a jury composed of the EU4Ocean Advisory Board and secretariat members, led to the recognition…

Industry’s Reverse Mentoring Scheme Grows by 50% – Signalling the UK PR Industry’s DEI Resilience

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and the Taylor Bennett Foundation have launched the fourth cohort of their award-winning Reverse Mentoring Programme, designed to accelerate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) progress across the public relations and communications industry. Now entering its fourth year, the scheme has grown by 50% – a powerful signal that, despite mounting pressure and scrutiny on DEI initiatives, many agencies and in-house teams are reaffirming their commitment to building inclusive cultures. Participating organisations in 2025 include BT, Virgin Money, Freuds, MONY Group, and others. Over…

Children’s wellbeing in world’s wealthiest countries took sharp turn for the worse in wake of COVID-19 pandemic – UNICEF

Stuart Mitchell

hildren in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw marked declines in their academic performance, mental wellbeing, and physical health in the period since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis published by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.   Report Card 19: Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World compares data from 2018 and 2022, offering a perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic and global shutdowns affected children in 43 OECD and EU countries. Since the last comparable Report Card five years ago, the Netherlands and Denmark retained their…

Scotland’s national walking charity seeks new trustees

Stuart Mitchell

SCOTLAND’S leading walking and wheeling organisation is seeking two experienced professionals to join its Board of Trustees to help to champion walking  to improve public health and tackle the climate emergency. The charity, which supports everyday walking and wheeling across Scotland’s communities, is recruiting trustees with professional backgrounds in accountancy and fundraising to support its strategic direction and ensure strong governance. Paths for All plays a vital role in creating the conditions for more people to walk or wheel as part of daily life, aiming to build a happier, healthier…