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These are the charities that collect furniture from your home to …
WEBAug 29, 2023 · The British Heart Foundation (BHF) – one of the main charities that collect furniture – saves 71,000 tonnes of items going to waste a year, including 180,000 sofas. By avoiding the landfills BHF estimates that they have been able to save 135,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions being released into the atmosphere.
Big Issue-backed Change Please coffee now available nationwide
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Once each individual training programme is complete, the employees return to into the mainstream world of work and all remaining revenues are put back into the project with the figure currently over £655,000. Change Please coffee will be sold at £4.50 per bag with a share of each bag going directly to the person featured on the packaging.
Paul Whitehouse: 'I want to stick around to do what I enjoy'
WEBAug 24, 2020 · The Fast Show icon Paul Whitehouse reflects on getting to grips with mortality in an honest Letter to My Younger Self. At 16 I loved football. But I was also realising that I was too skinny and too wayward, and just not good enough to be a footballer. When I was a child, that was my obsession.
What is greenwashing? Everything you need to know - Big Issue
WEBOct 25, 2021 · Professor Frances Bowen from the University of East Anglia, who has specialised in corporate environmental policy for more than 20 years, said: “Greenwashing is about painting a greener picture on the outside than what is actually happening on the inside. Advertisement. “Greenwashing isn’t quite the same as say fake news.
Thousands owed up to £12k from DWP in backdated PIP …
WEBApr 16, 2024 · It revealed in October last year that it has so far identified around 326,000 cases to review. DWP benefits and state pension rising from April. Here’s when you will get the higher amount. Staff at Benefits and Work have heard from people who have recently received backdated PIP payments ranging from £5,000 to £12,000.
Everything you need to know about homelessness in UK in 2024
WEB9 May 2024. Homelessness is a big issue affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the UK and, in recent times, the numbers have only been increasing in 2024. The cost of living crisis and the housing crisis in the UK means more people are facing homelessness. It’s an issue that should remain at the forefront of our minds as a society ...
Mark Knopfler: 'I've been tested, but the desire to make music has ...
WEBNov 19, 2018 · It was a moment when I was saying to myself, well, this is what you’ve chosen to do. You take the good and the bad. There are times when I’ve been tested but the desire has remained. The love for the guitars, and for the music. In 1965 the year Mark turns 16…. I really have managed to make a few dreams come true.
Labour's manifesto pledges on benefits and disabilities, analysed
WEBJun 13, 2024 · Labour will introduce the “full right to equal pay for disabled people”. The disability pay gap is currently around 14.6%. “Building on gender pay gap reporting, we will introduce disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting for large employers,” the manifesto reads. White described this policy as one of the few “surprises” in the ...
Ministry of Poverty Prevention - Big Issue
WEBJohn believes that the mechanism to deliver that change is a new government department, a Ministry of Poverty Prevention. With a focus on prevention and cure, the ministry would allow policymaking to evolve from firefighting by centralising poverty-led policy, delivery and funding. There are countless anti-poverty policies and projects we ...