Month: September 2019

Categories EducationFundraising

Money not biggest factor for going to uni according to poll

Author Ian Morton Posted on Posted on
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A new poll by ComRes has revealed that only a third of students think that potential earnings is the most important factor for choosing to study a degree. Universities UK has said the survey shows that the government should be doing more to promote the wider benefits of going to university.

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Categories Recent

British public seeing more good news

Author The Rooftop Posted on Posted on
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Up to 4 million people read The Rooftop’s positive news stories every three months

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Categories FundraisingRecent

Historic international trade ban is passed

Author Sarah Colombini Posted on Posted on
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A ban to end the barbaric practice of capturing live wild baby and juvenile elephants in Zimbabwe and Botswana, for trade to zoos and circuses around the world, has been passed.

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Categories FundraisingRecent

Social enterprise challenges companies to steal their staff

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80% of Beco soap’s employees are disabled. The organisation wants other companies to follow suit and support disability rights

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Categories EnvironmentRecent

Anti-plastic pollution app celebrates landmark

Author Ian Morton Posted on Posted on
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A Bristol start-up is celebrating seeing 250,000 people download an app which it estimates has saved more than 100 million plastic bottles from being used.

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Categories FundraisingRecentRooftop Exclusive

Inaugural Girls Wicketz Festival inspires and educates

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Fifty-five girls from Bristol, Plymouth, Wales, Manchester, Luton, Hartlepool, Bradford, Nottingham and Peterborough were bowled over by the Lord’s Taverners Wicketz programme’s first ever all-girls Wicketz Festival.

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Categories Campaign of the WeekFundraisingRecent

Hundreds of schools set for Big Assembly

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A drive to showcase how engineers help people’s health and wellbeing is underway as plans for Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2019 have been revealed.

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Categories Fundraising

Corporations with a conscience

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Since the breakdown of managerial capitalism in the 1970s, a corporate-governance model based on shareholder primacy has reigned supreme. But now that America’ s top CEOs have publicly embraced a broader “stakeholder” model, is capitalism entering a new chapter?

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Categories FundraisingRecent

Scottish social enterprises honoured

Author Heather Rogers Posted on Posted on
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Nominees range from breweries to credit unions, wood recycling to first aid.

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Employment programme helps disabled in developing countries

Author Sarah Colombini Posted on Posted on
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Ten thousand women and men with disabilities living in Kenya and Bangladesh will benefit from a new employment programme led by charity Leonard Cheshire.

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