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Dentsu Lab in London officially launches to drive a new era of creativity and innovation for the world’s biggest brands

Stuart Mitchell

dentsu UK&I is excited to announce the launch of Dentsu Lab in London, a pioneering Creative R&D studio founded in dentsu Tokyo, designed to reshape the future of innovation. The global rollout of the Dentsu Lab network was revealed during the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in June this year, with a mission to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Focused on key areas like AI, VR/AR, blockchain, and data analytics, focussing on applications of emerging technologies to drive societal impact. Dentsu Lab in London is set to become a…

Two billion women and girls worldwide lack access to any form of social protection, UN Women report shows

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women’s latest flagship report reveals a widening gender gap in social protection – the raft of policies including cash benefits, unemployment protection, pensions and healthcare – leaving women and girls more vulnerable to poverty. Published ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October, the report shows that a staggering two billion women and girls are without access to any form of social protection. While levels of social protection have increased since 2015, gender gaps in such coverage have widened in most developing regions, suggesting…

Refuge calls for tech-facilitated abuse to be a priority in government VAWG strategy

Stuart Mitchell

In the wake of hosting its first Technology Safety Summit, the domestic abuse charity Refuge is calling on the government to make tackling technology-facilitated abuse a key part of its plan to halve VAWG (violence against women and girls). To meet rising demand, Refuge set up a specialist technology-facilitated abuse and economic empowerment service in 2017, the only one of its kind in England. Since then, cases have grown both in quantity and complexity with Refuge reporting a 207% increase in referrals to the tech team compared to its first…

Government partners with civil society to transform lives across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Government marks ‘new beginning’ of relationship with civil society to tackle some of society’s most pressing issues with launch of a new ‘Civil Society Covenant’ The creation of a ‘Civil Society Covenant’ will usher in a new era of partnership between government and civil society and help tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges, the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary will announce today.  The new Covenant is designed to harness the knowledge and expertise of voluntary, community, social enterprises (VCSEs) and charities to deliver better outcomes for communities right across…

Charities struggle to meet growing demand amid financial strain

Stuart Mitchell

While inflation may have subsided, demand for charity services continues to rise along with competition for funding, new research by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has found. The research among 784 UK charity leaders found that 86% of the charities they lead had recorded increased demand for their services over the last 12 months, with 54% of those reporting that it had risen by ‘a lot’. This has increased from 43% in 2023 when a similar survey was carried out. Organisations that are most likely to say that demand has…