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Starbucks Announces 6,000 Greener Stores Worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

Starbucks has certified 6,091 Greener Stores, nearly doubling its portfolio in the past year, and a milestone achievement toward the company’s goal of certifying 10,000 Greener Stores globally by 2025. In markets around the world, Greener Stores energy and water savings and waste diversion help advance the company’s goal to reduce carbon emissions, water usage and landfill waste by 50% by 2030.  The company has Greener Stores in 44 markets with new markets including India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bahrain, Italy, France, Spain,…

Major Firms Commit to Action as Taskforce Report Identifies £45.5billion Opportunity For UK Economy from Investing in Early Childhood

Stuart Mitchell

The Royal Foundation Business Taskforce for Early Childhood has recently published a report setting out the business case for prioritising early childhood and announced the first tranche of action to be taken as a result of its work. The Taskforce was established in March 2023 by The Princess of Wales to galvanise business action on early childhood. Since then, Taskforce members Aviva, The Co-operative Group, Deloitte, Iceland Foods, IKEA UK and Ireland, The LEGO Group, NatWest Group and Unilever UK, have worked together to identify the scale of the opportunity…

Sodexo extends its support of veterans with Combat2Coffee partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Sodexo Government has announced a new partnership with Combat2Coffee, a community interest not-for-profit company (CIC) committed to supporting veterans and ex-uniformed personnel.    Combat2Coffee is a coffee company with a difference, created by its founder, Nigel Seaman, a Royal Anglian veteran, to support the wellbeing and mental health of ex-service personnel and their families using coffee as a vehicle for conversation. The vision of Combat2Coffee is to provide: mental health and signposting support through a dedicated and experienced outreach team and community hubs employability skills through barista and roasting training…

Wildlife has won the People’s Postcode Lottery with a £400,000 boost

Stuart Mitchell

TV presenter Steve Backshall thanked players of People’s Postcode Lottery for raising £400,000 to help treat wildlife at RSPCA centres as well as firing-up local communities to help wild creatures they share their neighbours with. The generous support comes as the RSPCA celebrates 200-years of changing animals’ lives for the better and will help fund vital work by the charity’s four specialist wildlife rehabilitation centres  – RSPCA East Winch in Norfolk, RSPCA West Hatch in Somerset, RSPCA Mallydams Wood in East Sussex and RSPCA Stapeley Grange in Cheshire. The money…

World Federation for Animals announces RSPCA chief executive as new President

Stuart Mitchell

Chris Sherwood, the Chief Executive of the RSPCA, has been announced as the new President of the World Federation for Animals (WFA). The news was announced yesterday (15 May) at the World Federation for Animal’s General Assembly in Copenhagen. WFA is a non-profit organisation uniting over 60 organisations from across the globe working to improve the wellbeing of all animals and end their suffering and exploitation worldwide. It holds Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council and is an Accredited Observer to the UN Environment Programme, as…