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Hopeful Traders are raising money to raise awareness of how creativity and collaboration can be enact social impact. Hopeful Traders are leading the way in using creativity for social impact. Rather than use their ethical streetwear brand to just rai...

On Friday the ABC attended ISMA (International Stress Management Association) Conference at the: Royal Over-Seas League, 6 Park Pl, St. James's, London SW1A 1LR. Carol Spiers FISMA, FPSA, MIHPE is the chair of ISMA - with over twenty years spent...

The Guardian reports that the Cabinet are set to press ahead with plans to shore up the rights of gig economy workers, implementing several main recommendations of the Taylor Review into modern employment practices. The proposals could include introd...

Cape Town, South Africa – Over 200 advocates for the rights of domestic workers will gather in Cape Town on the 16th to 19th of this month, as the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) celebrates its five-year anniversa...

The ABC has just recieved a delivery of lighting equipment from Proav - specialist equipment suppliers to the film world.    Alex Mayer MEP for the East of England is coming down in December (subject to all the usual things that could get i...

Following the changes announced in the Budget above, on 5th November, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions laid the Managed Migration Regulations. The regulations will: * Protect 500,000 people’s Severe Disability Premium at the point of migr...

DWP is making incremental changes to Universal Credit all the time, to improve the experience for claimants they say. This is the latest news from the DWP. In their own words: ++++ In addition to the measures set out above, a few recent changes intro...

Speaking ahead of a roundtable meeting with Professor Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, in Glasgow today (Friday 9th November) John Dickie, Director of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland sa...

In the wake of senior Tory MPs calling on the Prime Minister to end the benefit freeze, the SNP Shadow Work & Pensions spokesperson has renewed the party’s calls for an end to Tory austerity cuts to social security spending. The benefit freeze wa...

The ABC is becoming more and more international. We were started as a European Association, but we are growing all the time. We have just received this information today from our new-found friends in Canada. Food banks across Canada help over 860, 00...