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New research finds corporate charity support delivers 37x return

Stuart Mitchell

A new independent study by the Directory of Social Change (DSC) has found that for every £1 invested in wraparound support for charities by the Benefact Group, an estimated £37.50 in economic value is generated. The findings demonstrate that strategic, non-financial support significantly outperforms traditional donations and offer a clear call to action for UK businesses to transform how they give. The research focuses on support delivered by Benefact Group, an international family of financial services businesses that donates all available profits to good causes. Published in a new report,…

Edinburgh International Festival To Be First Charity on Net Zero Pathway

Stuart Mitchell

Edinburgh International Festival is the first charity, and the first arts organisation, in the UK to achieve the British Standards Institute’s (BSI) Net Zero Pathway verification, as part of its commitment to sustainable practice. This achievement underpins the International Festival’s commitment to Net Zero by 2045, in all its activity, from delivering year-round work with workshops, community engagement projects, and support for emerging artists, to an August festival programme that features world-class performers from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theatre. Aligning with BSI’s Net Zero Pathway’s ISO 14064-1…

The Ocean Cleanup and AWS Join Forces to Accelerate Ocean Plastic Removal using AI

Stuart Mitchell

The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization dedicated to ridding the world’s oceans and rivers of plastic pollution, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN). This collaboration will leverage AWS’s advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to enable and accelerate The Ocean Cleanup’s goal to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. Recent research by The Ocean Cleanup found that the GPGP is impeding the ocean’s ability to help regulate…

UKRI has published its 2024 to 2025 annual report and accounts

Stuart Mitchell

The report updates on progress against UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) strategy: transforming tomorrow together. The report, which has been laid before parliament, includes a performance report providing a summary of UKRI’s performance and finances. The highlights are quoted from the report are below: Delivery against the strategic objectives The report outlines what has been delivered against the six strategic objectives in the strategy, including the following. People and careers We invested over £500 million in new Doctoral Landscape awards to support around 4,700 studentships across the engineering and physical…

Nine new projects set for implementation after approval at record-breaking GCF Board meeting

Stuart Mitchell

Nine new projects backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are ready for implementation. Project agreements were signed for each project on the margins of GCF’s 42nd Board meeting (B.42), where the projects were approved. In addition, three projects received their first disbursement shortly after the agreement signings. B.42, which took place in Papua New Guinea from 30 June to 3 July 2025, saw a record volume of GCF investment approved in a Board meeting – USD 1.225 billion for 17 projects. GCF now has a portfolio of 314 projects…