The Women’s Institute (NFWI) has called on supermarkets to sign up to a voluntary agreement to avoid food waste, as well as to pass surplus food on to charities to help address the issue of food poverty in the UK. As a first step in the campaign, the NFWI has produced a report and manifesto detailing…
Almost half (45%) of the world’s most ecologically important places are being plagued by the illegal wildlife trade, which is the fourth largest international trade crime worth an estimated £15 billion, a new WWF report finds. Natural World Heritage sites are areas recognised by UNESCO as being of outstanding international importance and therefore deserving the highest…
The day before last weekend’s Boat Race, Londoners were invited to investigate a growing plastic menace on the Thames. Thames21’s The Big Count, now in its third year, was an opportunity for the public to contribute to the ongoing Thames River Watch citizen science programme monitoring the health of the Thames. South of Hammersmith Bridge,…
Fareshare, the community food network and shortlisted (with Cargill) for this year’s Best Partnership in the Community award, is also one of the charity’s supporting a novel new matchmaking service. Good Deed Dating gets like-minded singles involved in volunteering projects. It takes the pressure and awkwardness out of dating by shifting the spotlight off individuals,…
In the second half of her Indian odyssey, Karen Sutton, Founder and CEO of the National CSR Awards, describes how a trip to a beautiful beach opened her eyes to the full horrors of ocean waste. “After leaving Mumbai, I headed south to Goa to celebrate a milestone birthday and was planning on ‘switching off’. Except,…
If you’d like to make your organisation’s presence felt at this year’s awards ceremony at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Thursday 18th May, there’s still time to get involved by becoming one of the award’s goodie bag sponsors. For just £75 you can get your brand/product/message directly into the hands all 250 gala dinner guests. For…
My Indian odyssey by Karen Sutton I was visiting India with two objectives: to speak at the World CSR Day Conference in Mumbai and to celebrate a milestone birthday with friends in Goa. I love India, indeed Asian culture as a whole, and I truly believe it’s the one continent that I could live if…
The full programme for the Net Impact Approaches: Bringing the Strands Together conference on 24th May 2017 is now available. An impressive line-up of speakers includes Claudine Blamey, head of sustainability at the Crown Estate (and one of the judges of the National CSR Awards), Ben Kellard, head of sustainable business at Forum for the…
Greenpeace is urging consumers to track their plastic footprint in an effort to reduce the amount of throwaway plastic going into landfill as well as ending up in the ocean. While acknowledging that plastic is everywhere in daily lives, the organisation wants the public to become more aware of just how much plastic packaging they throw…
Project Dirt is hosting a festival this September (15th-17th) where it’s inviting community businesses and individuals to go ‘Offline for a weekend of connections, collaboration and creativity. There’ll be speakers, business skill-building and hands-on workshops, all immersed in an offline world of campfire chats, yoga, music and an all-round sense of community. Watch (and share) the…