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Bristol students donate items worth over £80k to charity
By Caitlin Bowring, Monday Dec 21, 2020
Bristol students living in Unite Students accommodation have donated £86,998 worth of items to British Heart Foundation (BHF), which funds research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors.
Students in Bristol came second only to Leeds students in how much they donated to the charity.
The donated items from the students include designer handbags, clothes, and plasma TVs.
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Environmental organisations launch employment scheme for UK s BAME youth
More than 35 of the UK s major environmental organisations, including RSPB, Friends of the Earth and ZSL London Zoo, are collaborating on a new scheme to help diversify the sector.
The environmental sector is regarded as the UK s second-least diverse, with farming being the least diverse. Stock image.
After a 2018 NUS study found that almost 97% of professionals in the UK’s environmental space are white – compared to 80.5% of the national population - the new scheme, called ‘Race for Nature’s Recovery’, will help young people from underrepresented demographics into their first job in the space.
Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 06.57 EST
A group of leading environmental organisations are taking part in an employment initiative to make the green movement more diverse.
Friends of the Earth, Client Earth, the RSPB and others will take part in a programme that aims to open up the environmental sector to young people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Just 3.5% of those who work in the environment sector identify as from a minority, according to research by Policy Exchange. The sector has been called “too white” in the past, with the former head of Friends of the Earth Craig Bennett declaring it must escape its “white middle-class ghetto”.