Tag: coronavirus

Penguin Random House Donates 750,000 Books To First Book, Fueling Efforts To Support Children In Need Affected By The Coronavirus

Stuart Mitchell

Penguin Random House, as part of READ TOGETHER, BE TOGETHER (#ReadTogetherBeTogether), a movement launched by the U.S. children’s divisions of Penguin Random House, Penguin Young Readers and Random House Children’s Books, in partnership with Meredith Corporation’s PARENTS, has donated 750,000 books to First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to equal access to quality education. The donation was made to meet the urgent need expressed by educators coping with school closures as a result of COVID-19. More than 6,000 educators in the First Book Network, who are still working to…

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Neighbourly set up new fund to support community organisations helping those most at risk during Coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Neighbourly set up a new Community Fund, backed by their partner businesses, to support the Neighbourly causes that will be most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. M&S Family (including M&S Bank and M&S Energy), Lidl, Aldi, Danone UK & Ireland and Coca-Cola European Partners have created a new fund to support community organisations helping those most at risk during the Coronavirus crisis and are urging other businesses to join them. The Neighbourly Community Fund will funnel vital funds directly to community causes across the UK to ensure they can deliver…

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Filmmaker & Celebrated Actors With Disabilities Team With Easterseals on Urgent, Timely PSAs to Encourage Everyone to #StayHomeSaveLives During Coronavirus Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Easterseals releases new, timely and critically important Public Service Announcements about safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, and encourages all of us to #StayHomeSaveLives. The leading disability services nonprofit joined with filmmaker John Lawson to produce the spots, recruiting a group of twenty celebrated actors within the disability community to record at-home messages about why we all need to stay at home.  The PSA series reinforces that we are all in this together, and asks us to self-isolate, stay at home, and do our part to stop the spread of this…

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Co-op boss kick starts members’ coronavirus fund with own personal donation

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op CEO Steve Murrells is directing his own personal income to kick-start a Co-op Members Fund, which will be channelled into foodbanks, a funeral hardship fund and front-line community causes. The boss of the £10bn turnover business is donating 20 per cent of his salary over a 3 month period into the newly created Co-op Members’ Coronavirus Fund. The fund has been established so that the Co-op’s 4.6 million members can donate their unspent existing member rewards, totalling over £30m, into these vital areas. Initially The Co-op Members fund will…

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Asda pharmacies to offer free prescription delivery service during Coronavirus outbreak

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced that it has launched a free prescription delivery service across all of its 255 pharmacies to help get vital medication to its customers who are currently self-isolating, or less able to get into stores. During the Coronavirus pandemic, there has been a huge increase in prescriptions, and some customers aren’t currently able to get out and about to collect them from stores. Existing Asda Pharmacy customers will have their uncollected prescription items delivered direct to their homes from this weekend. Faisal Tuddy, Superintendent Pharmacist at Asda said:…

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