Embrace, engage and encourage: THE GENEROUS GENERATION December 17, 2015 Millennials will make up the majority of the global workforce by 2025 (between 55 per cent and 75 per cent) according to various statistics. That’s a fantastic opportunity for both charities and businesses, if they can adapt to meet the needs of this socially-motivated generation. Who are the millennials? Agewise they are the under 35s [...]
The City remain top dog for charitable activity December 17, 2015 Lord Mountevans, Lord Mayor of the City of London, on the City’s charitable highlights The year is drawing to a close and for the City, it has been a fantastic year for charitable outreach. In addition to promoting the City as a global centre for financial and professional services, I will be picking up the baton from my [...]
No. 14: Church Commissioners December 17, 2015 UNITED KINGDOM – £216m The Church Commissioners main role is supporting the Church of England by managing its investment portfolio – valued at £6.7bn last year – and it can trace its history back to Queen Anne's Bounty of 1704, set up to support poor clergymen. The Church Commissioners manage investments within ethical guidelines; this means they do [...]
No. 17: W.K. Kellogg Foundation December 17, 2015 UNITED STATES – £179m Will Keith Kellogg made his fortune developing and marketing breakfast cereals. Before becoming one of the richest men in America, he pledged: “If I am successful in getting out of debt, and become prosperous, I expect to make good use of any wealth that may come to me.” He kept his word and [...]
Alberto Contador interview: El Pistolero sets sights on Chris Froome and aims for Tour de France victory in his final season December 16, 2015 It seems like an incomplete comeback. On paper, Alberto Contador is the best grand tour rider of his generation. The Spaniard has won seven, including two Tours de France. Those numbers jump to nine and three if, as Contador does, you count the titles he was stripped of after failing a drug test. Yet El [...]
Tim Peake’s mission marks a historic day for the UK space industry as Britain’s first International Space Station astronaut gets set for lift off December 15, 2015 Today marks an historic day for British science, innovation and space investment. It is the day that Tim Peake blasts off to the International Space Station – the first British astronaut from the European Space Agency to do so. This remarkable feat is the pinnacle of the UK’s growing global capability in space innovation and research – a [...]
New EU data protection rules could ban teenagers from social media services like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat December 14, 2015 EU lawmakers are about to introduce new data protection laws that would require parents to approve their children’s use of social media and chat apps. With hours to go before the final discussions of the new law begin tomorrow, a last-minute change has taken centre-stage, with critics arguing teenagers are being “banned from the internet”. [...]
Jordan Spieth has matched Tiger Woods’s best but Rory McIlroy will be back in 2016 December 14, 2015 Now that the last golf ball of 2015 has been struck in anger, it’s time to reflect on a remarkable and significant season that has at times felt like a changing of the guard. Former world No1 Tiger Woods has admitted that he may be finished as a force, and there have to be doubts [...]
HMRC officially launches digital Personal Tax Accounts online, with more than a million users to have access by mid-December 2015 December 14, 2015 The taxman is coming to a computer screen near you, after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officially launched its online Personal Tax Accounts (PTA) today. The digital PTAs aim to provide people with a clearer and more real-time picture of their tax situation. More than a million self-assessment taxpayers will have access to their account by [...]
From Mario Draghi on markets to Yanis Varoufakis on creditors: This is 2015 in quotes December 14, 2015 It’s been an action packed year – for better or worse. We’ve had a General Election, watched Greece come close to exiting the Eurozone, witnessed a Chinese economic slowdown and near financial crash- and the year isn’t even over. Here's what the world's good and great had to say while 2015 was happening… Sean Rad [...]