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Social landlord raises more than £100,000 for NSPCC in first year of partnership

1 week ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

The UK’s largest social landlord Clarion Housing Group has raised £102,535 for the NSPCC during the first year of its three-year corporate partnership. This is just over the partnership’s target of raising £100,000 in the first year. Fundraising for the children’s charity has included six members of Clarion’s Manchester based development team cycling 450km from Saigon in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which raised £32,000.
Building Society donates £175k to charities tackling food insecurity

1 week ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Building Society The Cumberland has donated £175,000 to support local charities supporting people impacted by food insecurity. The Cumbria based building society is handing the money to FareShare Lancashire and Cumbria, and FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland through its Kinder Kind of Kitchen initiative for local projects such as food banks. These donations bring the total made to good causes through the initiative to £675,00 since it launched two years ago.
Waitrose hands £500k to low carbon farming projects

1 week ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Nine low carbon farming projects are to share a £500k fund created by Waitrose to help British farmers transition to net zero. It wants UK farmers it uses to be net zero by 2035 and hopes that its entire supply chain will be net zero by 2050. More than 2,000 farmers applied for the funding, which has been handed to farm projects focusing on issues including establishing wild habitats, recycling water and converting waste into fertiliser.
Media company donates advertising space to Refugee Week across several titles

1 week ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Independent Media Group (IMG) is donating advertising to Refugee Week, as well as refugee gifting organisation Choose Love and the charity War Child across several of its titles. The free advertising is being offered to the good causes to mark Refugee Week (16-22 June) and Refugee Day (20 June). This in includes £30,000 of advertising with a third each between the three causes. The media group’s Huffpost UK, Buzzfeed UK and Seasoned will also donate advertising to all three good causes.
Business energy supplier boosts community funding by £5m

1 week ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Business energy supplier npower Business Solutions has committed a further £5m to its community fund, bringing its total funding to £10m. Launched last year the npower Business Solutions Foundation fund provides grants of up to £100,000 to good causes located within 50 miles of its offices in Solihull and Leeds. In its first year it supported 89 projects, including providing 190 solar panels, more than 299 charity roles, six electric vehicles and 15 redeveloped outdoor spaces.
Bakery chain names Brains Trust as its charity of the year

2 weeks ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

East Midlands based bakery Birds Bakery has named Brains Trust as its charity of the year. The firm runs 62 bakeries across the region and has selected the charity, which supports people with brain cancer, as a member of its staff has a family member with the condition. Through the link up there will be Brains Trust collecting tins in each bakery and other fundraising activities planned.
Tesco links up with charities to call for mandatory health reporting in food industry

2 weeks ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Tesco has teamed up with its health charity partners Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK to call on the UK government to being in new laws requiring supermarkets and food firms to report on sales of healthy products. The supermarket and the charities have written an open letter to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting calling for mandatory healthy food reporting.
Mr Kipling firm invests in low carbon wheat trial

2 weeks ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Premier Foods, the food manufacturer behind brands such as Mr Kipling, Batchelors and McDougalls, is investing in developing low carbon wheat as part of its sustainability efforts. It is partnering with wheat supplier Bartholomew to trial the move across 165 acres of farmland in southern England. It will use low carbon fertiliser, created through using renewable energy and decisn to provide a more controlled release of nutrients. It is also designed so that less fertiliser is needed.
Research finds 140m workplace volunteering hours went unused last year

3 weeks ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

Researchers are warning that 140m workplace volunteer hours went unused last year as staff struggle to find the right opportunities. The extent of unused volunteering time is despite two in three businesses offering volunteering days to staff. The findings have emerged in analysis carried out by the Centre for Economics and Business Research commissioned by the charity Royal Voluntary Service (RVS).
The FA extends charity partnership with Alzheimer’s Society

3 weeks ago | bettersociety.net | Joe Lepper

England’s Football Association has extended its partnership with Alzheimer’s Society for a further year. The link up launched in August 2021 and will continue into the 2025/26 football season. Through the partnership extension the England men’s fixture against Wales on 9 October will be named an Alzheimer’s Society International. This is the fourth men’s and women’s international to focus support on the charity.