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CAP – Responsible advertising: illegal drugs references

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Tread carefully: Responsible advertising: illegal drugs references, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. “Need drugs to get you through Christmas?” Avoid any reference to illegal drugs to avoid tripping up on the rules around responsibility. Any references, however veiled and obscure, to illegal drugs, are likely to breach the Code.  Even if they are a common reference point in the target audience, or they…

Charity donations expected to fall by £300m during festive season

Stuart Mitchell

Charities are set to receive £300 million less in donations over the last festive season, according to new analysis of 2025 giving trends by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The last two months of the year are typically the peak months for giving. While two out of every five people (40%) are expected to give to charitable causes during this period, the average donation is anticipated to fall from £85 to £78. As a result, the total donated to charity is estimated to drop from £3.2 billion last November and…

Virgin Media O2 and The Multibank join forces to help people in poverty stay connected this winter

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 is helping hundreds of people experiencing financial hardship stay connected this winter and beyond by providing free smartphones and O2 mobile data to The Multibank.   Through this new partnership, the company has donated refurbished phones and O2 data via its Community Calling programme with charity, Hubbub, which are being rehomed to people who need them through Multibanks in Fife, Swansea, and Tees Valley.   It’s part of the operator’s pledge to donate up to 12,000 devices to people who can’t afford data or devices during 2025, and comes…

Octopus EV surges past £2bn in electric car funding

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Electric Vehicles (Octopus EV) has extended and upsized its funding line from global banks to get more electric vehicles on roads, bringing its total EV funding to £2 billion. The deal allows Octopus to supercharge its EV fleet, pushing it from 40,000 cars currently to more than 75,000 once all funds are deployed.   This builds on a major funding line agreed with Lloyds in 2023, now joined by international banks Morgan Stanley and Crédit Agricole CIB.  The announcement was made at COP30 in Brazil and comes as electric cars…

Second round of Westminster Green Investment launches to raise £2 million for a greener city

Stuart Mitchell

Westminster City Council has launched the second round of Westminster Green Investment (WGI) with the ethical crowdfunding platform Abundance Investment. This exciting scheme invites residents and businesses to invest in local green initiatives and help raise £2 million or more for a cleaner, more sustainable Westminster. Following the success of the first round in 2023, which raised £1 million in just nine days, the latest round will continue to support community-focused projects across the city, including the Seymour Leisure Centre redevelopment. The refurbishment is due to be completed in mid-2026…