Archive for the 'environment' Category

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Join Total Coverage by joining 10:10 and making your business part of the solution to climate change.
Help by urging your staff and customers to join 10:10, and making the most ambitious emissions cuts you can. The aim is to reduce emissions by 10% in one year – or as close as your company can get. [...]

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Commonwealth Day in 2010 falls on Monday 8 March. Increasingly, there is a move to extend the theme into a series of events taking place throughout the year across London and the UK, and mirrored in all capitals and countries of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Day theme for 2010 is Science, [...]

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Don’t forget that it’s Fairtrade Fortnight! Swap your regular goods for fairly traded ones and make a difference.
The Co-operative has been supporting Fairtrade since the inception of the Fairtrade mark back in 1994. And in 1998 launched their own long-term plan to ‘mainstream’ Fairtrade. Through ongoing campaigning, product innovation and leadership they’ve helped develop the [...]

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
On Safer Internet Day 2010 , INSAFE launches the campaign “Think B4 U post”.
Children and teenagers need to be empowered to manage their [...]

Friday, February 5th, 2010

This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight (22 February – 7 March) is going to be the most ambitious two weeks yet. The Fairtrade Foundation wants one million and one people to join them in The Big Swap. They’ll be asking the nation swap their usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff;  usual wine, sugar, or oranges for Fairtrade wine, [...]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Linda Bratcher, Total Coverage Director recently attended Voice 10, the Social Enterprise Coalition’s annual conference, which took place 1 and 2 February in Cardiff at the International Arena, and saw close to 1,000 delegates meet to debate and discuss the conference theme ‘No More Business as Usual.’
Linda says: “It’s exciting to meet with so many [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

In 1829, Louis Braille published the Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged by Them. Today, this method – braille – is used in virtually every language as the standard form of reading and writing by people who are blind, deafblind, or living [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Why not take your Christmas cards to the special recycling bins in Marks & Spencer, WH Smith and TK Maxx and the money raised will help the woodland conservation charity  to plant 12,000 new native trees during 2010 – many by children.
Donors can even choose which part of the country they want trees to be [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

tc would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. 2010 promises to be an exciting year for us here at tc, and we are looking forward to some interesting and challenging projects over the coming months. As always, we will keep you up to date with new developments and hopefully supply [...]

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The Nestle announcement that Kit Kat is going Fairtrade, is a breakthrough for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire as well as for snack lovers in the UK and Ireland. The move which will kick off in mid-January 2010 when the first certified Kit Kat four-finger bars arrive on shop shelves, is benefiting thousands of farmers [...]