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Unlocking untapped potential: LSB launches report on financing for ethnic minority-led businesses

Stuart Mitchell

The Lending Standards Board (LSB) has recently announced the release of its latest inclusion report, ‘Increasing Access to Finance for Ethnic Minority Led Businesses’. The report, launched at an event in London last night, represents the third instalment of the LSB’s series on inclusion. It highlights the barriers faced by ethnic minority led businesses and underscores the crucial role that financial institutions play in unlocking the untapped potential. Ethnic minority entrepreneurs, including those from Black, Asian, and other minority groups, contribute an estimated £25 billion to the UK economy annually,…

Octopus Energy signs up to Armed Forces Covenant

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy Group has signed the Armed Forces Covenant and received the Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. The award recognises Octopus for being friendly to the armed forces and open to employing reservists and veterans who may be wounded, injured or sick. Octopus founder Greg Jackson today showed Vice Admiral Andy Kyte, Chief of Defence Logistics and Support, around Octopus’s HQ in London to meet team members who served in the armed forces or had partners who served. The energy supplier has jobs available for military veterans…

RiverSafe partners with Victor Moore Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

RiverSafe, a leading cybersecurity professional services provider, has partnered with Victor Moore Foundation (VMF), a Nigerian based, education-focused charity that supports young people to access education and opportunities. VMF is a non-profit organisation that works with children and young people from low-income homes and marginalised communities, providing them with scholarships and equipment needed for them to gain a decent education.  RiverSafe is sponsoring 21 children, almost a third of the young people on the programme, which will cover school fees, school uniforms and resources such as books and stationery, helping…

Episode 13 of CIPR’s Engage Podcast out now; Winning the War For Talent

Stuart Mitchell

“You don’t want to feel that, for a large majority of your life, you’re shying and hiding parts of yourself because you feel as if this isn’t a place that I can fully be myself and know that I’m being accepted despite my different background.” Toluwani Omotoye, Communications Coordinator, Global X ETFs The Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ (CIPR) Engage podcast returns with a new episode on the war for talent in the public relations and communications industry. The episode discusses the extent to which there is a war for…

GIRLvsCANCER And BBH Confront Stigma Around Sex And Cancer With Boundary Breaking Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

GIRLvsCANCER has partnered with BBH to launch a boundary breaking campaign addressing a major (but rarely discussed) survivorship issue of people living with and beyond cancer. Sex. Half of the population will develop some form of cancer over their lifetime. Of women that get cancer, less than a third are given any information about how a diagnosis or the side effects of treatments, both physical and mental, will affect their sex life. No wonder 60% of women* with cancer say they experience sexual dysfunction. GIRLvsCANCER is determined to bring fundamental…