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New members join Small Charities Advisory Panel to strengthen the voice of small charities

Stuart Mitchell

Five new members have joined the Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP), strengthening its role in advocating for the needs of small charities. Five new members join the Small Charities Advisory Panel The Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP) has appointed five new members, ensuring that small charities remain at the heart of its advocacy work. Led by NCVO, SCAP helps amplify the voices of small charities in policy and decision-making. The appointments follow a competitive recruitment process. They also reflect SCAP’s renewed commitment to recruiting a panel made up of small…

UNESCO and ICANN join forces to improve linguistic diversity online

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are announcing a new agreement to enhance linguistic diversity in the digital world. This will make the Internet more accessible to hundreds of millions of users. Under this new agreement, UNESCO and ICANN will cooperate to support the secure use of additional scripts and languages in the Internet’s domain name system (DNS), encompassing the domain names and email addresses that are key for access and online communication. The two organizations also will work together to drive the Universal Acceptance…

Small Charity Week 2025: New match funding campaign to boost small charities

Stuart Mitchell

To mark Small Charity Week 2025, NCVO is partnering with Big Give and Global’s Make Some Noise to launch a match funding campaign that will provide crucial financial support to small charities. Supporting small charities through match funding From 23 to 30 June 2025, the Small Charity Week Match Funding campaign will help small charities sustain their essential work across the UK by providing vital financial support. Through this campaign, donations made to participating charities via Big Give, the UK’s largest match funding platform, will be doubled thanks to the…

Fast fashion could be left on the peg as preloved and repair displace new sales

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from WRAP, working with leading resale and repair businesses and brands, shows the positive impacts that a range of circular business models are having in stopping the purchase of new clothes. The insights are outlined in the report Displacement Rates Untangled and make essential reading for the UK, which in 2024 was the fourth highest consumer of clothing of any nation, after the USA, China and India.  Harriet Lamb, WRAP CEO, said “Our research shows that buying preloved both satisfies our desire for clothes, for something new-to-us, and means we don’t buy so many brand-new…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and AWS to Accelerate AI-Driven Cancer Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), a leading global cancer center, today announced a collaboration harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), and other cloud technology to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer. With cancer deaths projected to reach 15 million annually by 2040, uniting MSK’s research and clinical expertise with AWS’s advanced cloud technologies is a bold step towards addressing one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Unlocking data to deliver unprecedented oncology insight In keeping with…