Tag: Hubbub

Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub show charities ‘TLC’ with £400,000 tech lending scheme

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity, Hubbub, are providing hundreds of tablets and smartphones to help people in need get online across the UK with a £400,000 device lending scheme. The Tech Lending Community scheme, established in 2022, aims to tackle digital exclusion and electronic waste by providing second-hand devices to people in need, while also giving tech a second life, preventing it ending up in landfill. As part of a new round of funding, homelessness charities, Centrepoint and Thames Reach will receive more than 500 tablets and smartphones, which…

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New £300,000 “Nature Hubs” grant fund launched to support community green spaces

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub has recently launched a brand-new fund to support green spaces that benefit local communities. The charity is urging local community groups across the country to apply for a grant of up to £6,000 to help enhance or create a green space that can be accessed by the local community to visit, relax and connect with nature in. Applications must relate to any one or more of these four themes: increasing access to green space, upskilling the community, bringing people together and building climate resilience. This could be…

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Winners of the John Lewis Partnership’s Circular Future Fund – one year on

Stuart Mitchell

The John Lewis Partnership and environmental charity Hubbub, have recently published an impact report, detailing the progress of four trailblazing projects that were awarded funding as part of the Circular Future Fund, created to find pioneering circular economy ideas.   In 2022, four projects were each awarded grants of between £150,000 – £300,000, from 245 applications, to develop their innovative solutions that challenged the ‘make…use…throw-away’ culture of modern society. The £1 million fund was made possible by the sales of 10p plastic bags through the John Lewis Partnership.   Helping menstrual cups…

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Hubbub marks three years of Food Connect

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is marking three years of Food Connect, a food redistribution service that works with businesses to deliver good quality surplus food to community fridges and groups to share.  Since its launch in 2020, more than 1,000 tonnes of food have been redistributed through the service across Milton Keynes and London, the equivalent of over 2.5 million meals. Hubbub set up Food Connect to create a simpler donation experience for food businesses and to share the small amounts of surplus that often go to waste to local community…

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Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub join forces with TV’s George Clarke on the Time After Time fund to award £500,000 to the UK’s best eco projects

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub have joined forces with TV presenter and environmentalist, George Clarke, to find the UK’s most innovative eco projects – with a share of £500,000 available for initiatives which tackle both electronic waste and support digital inclusion. George, star of hit TV shows, ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ and ‘Restoration Man’ will help select the winners of the 2023 Time After Time fund where grants from £25,000 up to £100,000 will be awarded to a variety of organisations including community groups, charities and social enterprises. The Time…

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