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image captionThe artist behind the Irena Sendler sculpture took inspiration from video recordings of Holocaust survivors
A statue is being unveiled in honour of a Polish civil servant who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two.
The town has several connections to Poland and plays home to a number of Polish war graves.
Town mayor Lisa Geary said the statue was a fitting tribute to Mrs Sendler s inspirational life.
During World War Two, Mrs Sendler - also known as Irena Sendlerowa - worked at the Department for Social Welfare and Public Health in German-occupied Poland.
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By Susanna Rust2021-04-08T10:15:00+01:00
The Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) has endorsed a set of impact investing guidelines for pension schemes, saying their broader adoption would provide a stronger governance framework for investors navigating the subject of impact investment.
This in turn could increase the volume of capital directed towards sustainable solutions and supporting much-needed transformations within the global economy, the group suggested.
The principles in question were developed by the Impact Investing Institute in partnership with Pensions for Purpose, which is an organisation dedicated to promoting impact investing within the pensions industry.
Andrew Lilley, head of responsible investment research at Isio and part of the ICSWG’s impact investing team, said: “Institutional interest in impact investing has increased dramatically, especially over recent years. However, we see a great diversity of approach in implementing i