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UNESCO appoints international expert group to prepare a new global standard

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO’s Director-General Audrey Azoulay has appointed 24 experts from all regions of the world to develop the first global framework on the ethics of neurotechnology. They met for the first time in Paris from 22 to 26 April. Based on the work of these experts, UNESCO will lead a discussion with its 194 Member States on the adoption of the framework by the end of 2025. Neurotechnology has the potential to solve many health issues, but it could also threaten human rights, freedom of thought and privacy. There is an…

£12 million National Lottery cash injection to support communities to come together across the UK, as new report shows value of community

Stuart Mitchell

The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, has awarded a vital £12 million cash injection to support communities to come together across the UK. Communities from Glasgow to Kent will benefit from the first nine projects to be awarded through The UK Fund – one of the funder’s bold commitments as part of its new strategy, It starts with community, to tackle some of the big social issues facing UK communities. The announcement comes as The National Lottery Community Fund launches a new report, revealing…

Unilever in the UK publishes 2023 Gender Pay Report

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever have published their gender pay results for the seventh year, in line with the government’s Gender Pay regulations introduced in April 2017. As required by government regulation for gender pay reporting, more detailed figures from our two main employing entities in the UK have been published. These are Unilever UK Limited, representing our UK specific operations, including factories, and Unilever UK Central Resources Limited, representing our global functions based in the UK and primarily reflecting our central office and research labs. We’ve also chosen to share overall ‘Unilever in…

Multi-award-winning Yorkshire businesswoman set to launch second business

Stuart Mitchell

The founder of successful nine-year-old PR agency, MacComms has announced details of the upcoming launch of her second business, HelloHope. Ellie MacDonald from Leeds has trained as a mental health and suicide prevention instructor trainer and is launching her Community Interest Company, HelloHope at a special event on 23rd May.   Having battled mental health issues and experienced the loss of her dad to suicide when she was just four years old, Ellie is channelling her pain into something positive to bring more hope to people at a time when…

ASA – Qualification for the nation

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Qualification for the nation.  I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Always read the small print. That’s what people say, isn’t it? And the ASA has many names for it – small print, on-screen text, footnotes, and in the CAP Code itself, qualifications. But what happens when the qualification contradicts the rest of the ad? Or if…