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National Trust joins push for temperate rainforest revival in North Devon with new 100,000-strong tree planting project

Stuart Mitchell

A large-scale project to create a wilder, woodier and wetter landscape is underway in north Devon with the National Trust planting over 100,000 trees this winter to re-establish approximately 50 hectares (123 acres) of temperate rainforest, one of the UK’s most endangered habitats, and other wooded habitats. The planting will take place across three sites, with 50,000 trees to be planted at Arlington Court, 38,000 on Exmoor and 20,000 at Woolacombe/Hartland, with more planting to follow in the coming years. Temperate rainforests, also known as Atlantic or Celtic rainforests, are…

Golden tickets from Albert Bartlett give back to local charities

Stuart Mitchell

Leading potato supplier Albert Bartlett, which has supplied the equivalent of over11m meals to FareShare during its 14-year relationship with the UK’s biggest charity tackling food waste for social good, had a special festive surprise in its potato bags. Five charities found golden tickets worth £100. These tickets will be used by the charities to buy essentials that they need to support their communities. Lucky Golden Ticket winners included: Laurence’s Larder and Open Kitchen, Northwest London The Food Chain, North London Kellands School, Aberdeenshire Dundee Survival Group, Dundee Faifley Community…

Getting active made easier with £93 million funding for over 1,100 grassroots sports projects

Stuart Mitchell

Research shows exercising more was the UK’s most common New Year’s resolution for 2024, and the Government is helping hundreds of thousands more people across the UK keep their resolution and get active by delivering high-quality grassroots sport facilities. From Belfast to Bracknell, over 1,100 projects are receiving funding that will go towards facilities such as changing rooms, pavilions, state of the art 3G artificial grass pitches, goalposts and floodlights, improving access to sport and physical activity for local communities. Sports Minister Stuart Andrew announced the funding during a visit…

Kellogg’s launches Money Matters report to help families unlock benefits

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg’s and GMPA launched a report on the pilot Money Matters programme at a roundtable in Parliament hosted by Stretford and Urmston MP, Andrew Western. The report highlights the success of the programme with families receiving tens of thousands of pounds as part of a scheme to match them to benefits they are entitled to but did not claim. A limited pilot of the Money Matters programme helped 104 families. Each received an average of £1,567. Roundtable attendees urged government to go further and support a wider roll out to…

NSC to Award up to $260,000 to Expand Grant Programs to Solve Most Common Workplace Injury

Stuart Mitchell

Following the debut of the Research to Solutions (R2S) grant and MSD Solutions Pilot Grant in 2023, the National Safety Council is awarding up to an additional $260,000 this year through these pioneering grant programs to help uncover promising new safety solutions to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs. As a key initiative of the Council’s MSD Solutions Lab, a groundbreaking strategic program established in 2021 with funding from Amazon, a total of up to $535,000 has now been committed in grants to foster innovative, transferable methods to mitigate MSDs…