The PRCA UK Awards 2024 ceremony took place last month at the Royal Lancaster Hotel to recognise and celebrate the very highest standards in public relations. This year’s headline sponsors are 3Gem. Additional sponsorship includes CARMA, Censuswide, Markettiers, Polpeo, Reuben Sinclair and YPO. We are proud to reward the excellent achievements of these individuals and teams. B2B Campaign – Sponsored by 3Gem Winner: Spark Communications for Quadient Uncovering the scourge of “Porch Piracy” B2B Technology Campaign Winner: Experian Support Hub: Making essential service access universal Best Use of Media Relations…
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UK has glaring national security blind spot for climate threats, finds new report
An assessment of climate threats to UK national security has highlighted climate tipping points as a severely overlooked danger, according to a new report from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), Chatham House, the University of Exeter, and the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative. The researchers drew parallels with the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting that national security threats can stem from non-hostile actions – like climate change – and not just from malicious intent, like wars and terrorism. The authors of the report say the government has a blind spot: major…
Investors put £10 billion into a better society as Treasury considers budget cuts
The UK’s social impact investment market continued to demonstrate stability despite economic uncertainties, growing to £10 billion at the end of 2023, according to the annual assessment by the UK’s leading social impact investor, Better Society Capital (BSC). This represents a 7% increase from £9.4 billion in 2022 and shows stable investor support for initiatives focused on tackling social issues such as reducing child poverty, combatting homelessness and preventing long term health conditions, even in challenging macro and micro economic conditions. This increase comes in the same month as the…
Investors put £10 billion into a better society as Treasury considers budget cuts
The UK’s social impact investment market continued to demonstrate stability despite economic uncertainties, growing to £10 billion at the end of 2023, according to the annual assessment by the UK’s leading social impact investor, Better Society Capital (BSC). This represents a 7% increase from £9.4 billion in 2022 and shows stable investor support for initiatives focused on tackling social issues such as reducing child poverty, combatting homelessness and preventing long term health conditions, even in challenging macro and micro economic conditions. This increase comes in the same month as the…
Research finds UK’s school staff spent £40m of their own money supporting pupils in hygiene poverty in past year, as campaign calls on new government taskforce to help
Teachers are calling for urgent action from the government’s Child Poverty Taskforce as new research reveals the UK’s school staff have spent £40M over the past year supporting pupils with hygiene issues. This comes as growing levels of hygiene poverty impact children’s wellbeing and ability to learn. Research from smol, in collaboration with charity, The Hygiene Bank, has found that the UK’s state school staff believe that, on average, over a third (37%) of pupils in their school are experiencing, or have experienced, hygiene poverty; not being able to afford…