Tag: COVID-19

Power to Change launches up to £12 million of emergency support to help community businesses during the coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Power to Change, the independent trust that supports community businesses in England, is launching up to £12 million of emergency support to provide both immediate and medium-term help for community businesses facing a loss of trading income during the coronavirus crisis. The crisis has highlighted the vital role that community businesses play in reviving local assets, protecting the services that people rely on, and addressing local needs. The new emergency support includes: £7 million in rescue funding for community businesses, offering grants up to £25,000 to contribute towards trading income…

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Amnesty: Privacy must not be ‘another casualty’ of the virus

Stuart Mitchell

Warning comes as Government plans to introduce COVID-19 tracking app Move could ‘open the door to pervasive state surveillance and privacy infringement’ – Kate Allen UK Government plans to introduce a COVID-19 tracing app with a potentially centralised contract tracing system are deeply concerning and may mean that people’s right to privacy could become “another casualty” of coronavirus, Amnesty International UK warned. Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director, said: “We’re extremely concerned that the Government may be planning to route private data through a central database, opening the door to…

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Asda’s CEO makes commitment to support care homes through COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

Asda’s President and CEO Roger Burnley has written to customers to pledge Asda’s support for over 3,500 care homes across the country, as they continue to care for some of the nation’s most vulnerable people through COVID-19. Recognising the concerns of Asda’s customers and colleagues around the impact of COVID-19 on care homes, Mr Burnley used his regular email to customers to outline how Asda will be extending its support for the vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic, by offering thousands of small care homes priority access to online delivery slots…

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NSPCC launches nationwide campaign to help children exposed to harm under the lockdown

Stuart Mitchell

With growing concern for the safety of some children during the coronavirus crisis the NSPCC wants more people to know how to get advice and support and where to raise concerns about a child’s wellbeing. The charity is launching a new TV and advertising campaign today (May 4) across the UK to promote its free and confidential helpline for adults. The film, which will run on national television and across social media, depicts a helpline expert taking a call from someone concerned for the wellbeing of a neighbour’s child. The…

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Barratt’s supports The Big Issue in the wake of COVID-19 crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Barratt Developments PLC has this week committed £25,000 to support social enterprise, The Big Issue, which has been forced to transform its business and protect its vendors in the wake of the global Coronavirus pandemic. The Big Issue is a social enterprise, launched 29 years ago by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London. The two believed that the key to solving the problem of homelessness lay in helping people to help themselves, through vendors purchasing the magazine…

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