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Help Musicians commits to support the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA)

Stuart Mitchell

Help Musicians are pleased to commit to supporting CIISA by making a financial commitment through paying the Annual Contribution. CIISA’s vision is to create consistently safe and inclusive workplaces for creative industry professionals through pro-active interventions and advice, providing a single place of accountability where behaviours of concern can be reported and investigated, and building capability to prevent and tackle bullying and harassment.  Help Musicians will work collaboratively with CIISA to provide more people in music with advice and support should they need it. “The creative industries bring us all so much and…

Scottish firms less likely to report skills shortages compared with UK, but businesses lack confidence in AI and green technologies

Stuart Mitchell

New data from this year’s Business Barometer report published by The Open University in partnership with the British Chambers of Commerce, has found that over half (56%) of Scottish organisations are still reporting worrying skills shortages.  The annual report, monitoring the current UK skills landscape, highlighted more than half of Scottish businesses (56%) are reporting skills shortages. This is lower than the UK average of 62%, but a modest improvement on 2023 UK results, when almost three quarters (73%) reported skills shortages. However, despite this, less than one in four (23%)…

Research finds AI, burnout, inclusivity and falling budgets keeping marketers awake at night

Stuart Mitchell

New research from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) highlights the issues keeping marketers up at night in 2024. The latest Impact of Marketing report suggests that progress on diversity and inclusion is stalling with 44% of respondents stating that their team has not become more diverse within the last 12 months.  Only around half of those surveyed (56%) indicated that they felt that progress had been made on diversity and inclusion within their teams. Some respondents reported seeing a greater diversity of ethnicities (28%), genders (12%), and ages (11%)…

Unity Trust Bank named in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Unity Trust Bank, which supports organisations to deliver positive social impact, has been named by The Sunday Times in its annual Best Places to Work Awards. The prestigious list recognises and celebrates the UK’s best employers, based on feedback from employees and an independent assessment of six key areas, including workplace culture, leadership, employee engagement and wellbeing. An impressive 91% of employees said that they were proud to work for Unity Trust Bank, and 90% felt that their work was worthwhile. When looking at measurements for workplace happiness, Unity’s highest…

Young people reveal challenges of caring role in new film supported by Barnardo’s

Stuart Mitchell

A group of young carers in Aberdeen have created an exciting new film inspired by retro video games based on their caring experiences. With support from leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and community media organisation Station House Media Unit (SHMU), the group of six spent almost three months learning about filmmaking before unveiling their masterpiece where each ‘level’ includes different aspects of being a young carer and some of the challenges they may face within their role. The film – entitled ‘Young Warriors’ – was made possible thanks to support from…