Six organisations shortlisted for Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

The Museums + Heritage Awards have announced the shortlist for the sustainability category. Discover how these projects are demonstrating best practice. This award, sponsored by the Heritage Fund, celebrates projects that have environmental sustainability at their core, or use transferrable and easy to replicate ways to protect and build connections with our natural environment. Tackling the climate and ecological crisis together Catalysts for change, the shortlisted projects are making a positive impact on the environment and can empower others to do same through their learnings. The shortlist Brilli-ANT: How someone…

Channel 4 Launches First Equity Strategy

Channel 4 has launched its first equity strategy, “Equity by Design”, an ambitious framework that sets out how it will create fair outcomes for everyone and accelerate change in the industry. The strategy details how Channel 4 will build on its industry-leading work, working to ensure there is equity in experience by improving how diversity and inclusion is built into decision-making.  The strategy, a blueprint for everyone who works at Channel 4, will support the business in staying true to and delivering its public service remit in a changing world.…

Apple’s Restore Fund cultivates new roots in the Atlantic Forest

In South America’s Atlantic Forest, many suggest that life depends on a mother: the superior matriarch who provides for all. This is true for its plants and animals, and even the trees that tower above, reaching skyward to the sun while providing shade for the life that resides in their underbrush. It is estimated there are 5,000 tree species in existence in the Atlantic Forest today. Of those species, two-thirds are threatened with extinction after centuries of exploitative, extractive practices. Restoring the rainforest — a potential 100 million-acre restoration area…

LEGO® Entities Continue Drive to Make Play Experiences Accessible to All and Launch New Wave of Long-Term Initiatives to Support And Celebrate Neurodivergent Fans

The LEGO Group, LEGO House and the LEGO Foundation today announce a range of long-term initiatives designed to support and celebrate neurodivergent children and adults to mark the start of World Autism Acceptance Month. Colette Burke, Chief Commercial Officer at the LEGO Group, comments:“All LEGO® entities are united by our mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow and a belief that the benefits of play are equally critical to all children. This fuels our exploration of how to make the LEGO experience more inclusive and welcoming for everyone.“ “We…

A third of UK city dwellers plan to leave in the next decade, with access to more nature and green space the top factor

New research conducted by Landsec suggests improving nature and biodiversity needs to be at the heart of UK city planning if they are to remain desirable places for people to live and work. Landsec’s research reveals over half (55%) of people living and working in UK cities plan to leave in the future, a third (33%) in the next ten years, with more access to nature and green space cited as the top reason. The polling of over 1,200 people across some of the UK’s major cities, including London, Birmingham, Manchester,…