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A solution to fast fashion
More than a hundred people swapped clothes to fight fast fashion in the Kensington Central library on Saturday 20 March, 2022. The clothes’ swapping event was organized by Loanhood, a company specializing in clothing rentals and swaps. In the morning, there was a drop-off one-hour time slot where people were able to bring up to…
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To give or not to give?
While charitable giving has seen a rise over the pandemic, charities have had to show creativity to multiply their methods of raising money. Between grants, statutory help and the willingness of the people, charities continuously have to find means to keep afloat. A recent statistic led by Statista revealed that “the average amount which people give…
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Working in charity: a job “you always take home”
Emily Cretch works as a Research and Policy assistant at Centrepoint, a charity devoted to fighting youth homelessness in the UK. Covid-19 has not been kind to society, and it certainly has not been kind to the homeless either: at Centrepoint, the charity worker Emily Cretch confides that their health team has registered a 276%…