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Ten GSK IMPACT Award winners showcase outstanding work of voluntary and community sector in 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Ten small and medium sized charities have been named as winners of the 2025 GSK IMPACT Awards for their exceptional work improving health and wellbeing. This year’s awards were announced amid an increasingly challenging financial environment for charities. Despite this, the award judges were struck by the continued determination of the winners to meet the needs of their communities. The ten winning charities took part in a rigorous selection and assessment process and were selected from a record number of award entries. Now in their 28th year, the GSK IMPACT…

The One Club Brings Professional Development and DEI Events to Toronto

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the global creative community, brings its celebrated professional development and diversity programming to Canada for the first time with a pair of events scheduled for Toronto. The club’s Master Class in Creativity-Toronto, hosted in partnership with Cossette, takes place on April 22, 2025.  Designed as an evening of connections, collaboration, and inspiration, the event will elevate the talents within the ad community through dynamic, short-form sessions featuring conversations with industry leaders on creator economy, typography,…

Investigations announced into how social media and video sharing platforms use UK children’s personal information

Stuart Mitchell

ICO are announcing three investigations looking into how TikTok, Reddit and Imgur protect the privacy of their child users in the UK.  Our investigation into TikTok is considering how the platform uses personal information of 13–17-year-olds in the UK to make recommendations to them and deliver suggested content to their feeds. This is in light of growing concerns about social media and video sharing platforms using data generated by children’s online activity in their recommender systems, which could lead to young people being served inappropriate or harmful content.  Our investigations…

Samaritans awarded new BSI safeguarding standard PAS5222

Stuart Mitchell

Samaritans awarded ‘Safeguarding Children in Out of School Settings’ standard. Samaritans has just achieved the new British Standards Institution (BSI) standard ‘Safeguarding children in out of school settings – PAS5222’. BSI is the national body responsible for preparing British Standards and other standards-related publications, information and services. The new standard came into effect on 05 March 2024 and Samaritans commissioned BramahHR and Safeguarding to complete the inspection and audit. Inspection and audit steps BramahHR and Safeguarding held a range of interviews with key stakeholders and those responsible for delivering safeguarding…

Zenobē powers up a world first solution and Europe’s biggest battery at Blackhillock, Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

Zenobē, the UK’s leading owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on the GB transmission network, has announced that Europe’s largest battery site, located in Blackhillock, Scotland, has begun commercial operations today. The Blackhillock site is launching in two phases. Phase 1 comprises of 200MW which is going live today and will be followed by a further 100MW in 2026, making a total of 300MW/600MWh. The total capacity of the site is the equivalent of powering >3.1 million homes, substantially more than all the households in Scotland, for one hour. Deliberately…