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Co-op and Warm Welcome Campaign announce partnership to support ‘warm spaces’ this Winter

Stuart Mitchell

As the cost of energy rises for households across the UK, Co-op and the Warm Welcome Campaign have joined together to help grow the number of Warm Welcome Spaces and help people stay warm this winter. The Warm Welcome Campaign’s vision is to enable a more deeply connected society where everyone has free access to welcoming community spaces and can access support, particularly if they are affected by the cost-of-living crisis and loneliness. In the two years since it launched, the Warm Welcome Campaign has helped an average 120,000 people…

Big Issue launches ‘12 Days of Homelessness’ Christmas advert to highlight leading causes of homelessness in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue, the UK’s leading anti-poverty social enterprise, has released The 12 Days of Homelessness, a Christmas advert, created to raise awareness around the most pressing causes of homelessness in the UK. The campaign, developed by creative comms agency Work & Class, with support from production company Feed Films, underscores the urgent housing insecurities facing both the public and Big Issue’s vendors. The 12 Days of Homelessness film reimagines the classic 12 Days of Christmas tune to highlight the diverse causes of homelessness, such as loss of income, rising…

Investors put £10 billion into a better society as Treasury considers budget cuts

Stuart Mitchell

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…

Crisis and Mr. Men Little Miss join forces to bring to life the experiences of homelessness in new three-year partnership

Stuart Mitchell

National homelessness charity Crisis has partnered with Mr. Men Little Miss to bring to life the experiences of people facing homelessness by launching two new characters ‘Mr. and Little Miss Invisible’ to help shine a light on the reality of being without a safe home.  The new characters, which have been developed in collaboration with people with lived experience of homelessness and based on their insight of feeling excluded from society, will be launched as part of a limited-edition range of t-shirts with fashion retailer UNIQLO. Additional products will be…

New guidance gives banks framework for climate finance

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres released new recommendations for the U.S. banking sector, highlighting areas of improvement in the design and implementation of their climate finance target-setting and disclosures. Policies like the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act have spurred trillions of dollars in green financing opportunities, yet there is no consistent methodology for investors or regulators to compare U.S. bank performance.   In a new report, “Ahead or Behind? The State of Climate Finance in the Banking Sector,” Ceres provides a set of recommendations on how banks can design effective climate finance targets and frameworks, enhance…