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CIPR-run BME reverse mentoring scheme opens for applications

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and Taylor Bennett Foundation have opened applications for the PR industry’s first BME Reverse Mentoring Scheme. Designed to help senior leaders understand the challenges faced by practitioners from diverse communities in the PR industry, support the creation of inclusive cultures, and drive lasting change in the PR industry, the scheme will run for just over 10 months. Applications open following a successful pilot scheme, which paired senior leaders with Black, Asian and ethnic minority PR professional mentors to share insights into what it…

Businesses Form Workforce and Justice Alliance to Drive Criminal Justice Reform

Stuart Mitchell

U.S. businesses have come together to launch the Workforce and Justice Alliance (WJA), a groundbreaking coalition to help deliver criminal justice reform across the country. MOD Pizza, Georgia-Pacific, Kelly Services, Checkr, Televerde, Small Business Majority, Honest Jobs, and CleanTurn have all committed to leveraging their platforms to advance systemic change in the justice system, share best practices with their peers, and remove workforce barriers for justice-impacted individuals. They are calling on others to join them.  “Over the years, we at MOD have seen first-hand the incredible opportunity that exists for…

Tesco answers food banks’ aid plea with £1m funding boost

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced a new £1m support package for food banks and food charities after the Trussell Trust warned they are facing their most difficult winter ever. With food banks and other frontline charities hit by a double whammy of unprecedented demand and soaring operating costs, Tesco has stepped in with a £1m donation split between the Trussell Trust and FareShare to help them meet the exceptional challenges they are facing. The extra money comes in addition to the ongoing support the supermarket provides to both charities, having worked in…

BNP Paribas supports Phenix, the French start-up fighting food waste

Stuart Mitchell

88 million tons of food end up in the trash bin every year in Europe, including 10 million in France alone – a loss of €16 billion in consumables, while a third would be enough to feed all those in need. (according to ADEME).  French start up Phenix, created in 2014, wants to put an end to this environmental, social and economic nonsense. Supported since its inception by Act For Impact by BNP Paribas, its leader Jean Moreau has just announced 15 million euros raised in order to accelerate Phenix’s development…

Didim becomes the first town in Turkey to endorse the Plant Based Treaty in response to the climate emergency.

Stuart Mitchell

Didim Council endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first town in Turkey to join the groundbreaking initiative to tackle emissions from animal farming and attributed deforestation, a key driver of the climate emergency. The endorsement comes a year after Turkey ratified the Paris climate agreement, the last G20 country to do so. Ahmet Deniz Atabay, Mayor of Didim, said,  “We are aware of the seriousness of the climate crisis and we believe that the Plant Based Treaty campaign will make a positive contribution towards solutions to this crisis.”  The…