The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust (LTCT), which provides financial aid for the families of those working in the convenience, grocery, and pharmacy trades, has announced applications for 2024/2025 undergraduate bursaries will open on the 1st of August and run until 15th October.
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The charity will offer financial aid to families of convenience, grocery workers and pharmacists across the UK, to help them succeed at school, university or college.
The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust (LTCT), which provides financial aid for the families of those working in the convenience, grocery, and pharmacy trades, has announced a renewed focused on educational-specific support for 2024.
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To celebrate #PrideMonth, Midcounties Co-Operative is sharing stories from LGBTQ+ Colleagues about the good work they do in the community and how the convenience sector can foster safe, inclusive spaces for all convenience colleagues.
The Inclusion Allies Network at Your Coop aims to support colleagues who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and ensuring they feel valued by promoting equality, addressing barriers in the sector through the expertise and experience of the Inclusion Allies.
The Scottish Government has published its response to the consultation on details surrounding the introduction of a ban on disposable vaping products, set to come into force in April 2025.
The response provides additional clarity on their views on the definition of a disposable vape, as well as more information about the way that the rules will be enforced. The Scottish Government acknowledges that enforcement was the biggest concern raised by those who submitted evidence to the consultation.
Today (June 5th) marks the day that the new banknotes featuring the portrait of King Charles III enters circulation. Appearing on all four banknotes (£5, £10, £20, and £50), the new notes will co-circulate with existing Queen Elizabeth II notes, which are to remain legal tender.
The latest banknotes with the new King Charles III designs will enter circulation next week on 5 June 2024, and retailers should prepare themselves on how to spot counterfeit notes with the incoming banknote designs.
The Bank of England has updated its advice for retailers on spotting counterfeit notes ahead of the introduction of the new King Charles banknotes next month.
The new advice from the Bank of England provides training materials that retailers can use to learn best practice for checking banknotes, including the new King Charles III banknotes. The advice highlights what to do if a counterfeit note is received, in addition to guidance dependent on whether the customer has left and how threatening they might be.
ACS is reminding retailers about changes to waste collection rules in Wales which come into effect from 6th April.
From Saturday (6th April), new regulations in Wales will mean that all businesses will need to arrange for the waste that they generate to be sorted into different categories and collected separately by their chosen waste collector. In practice, this means that retailers will need to have up to six different containers for the following categories of waste:
The Scottish Government have published a new six week consultation on the implementation of the disposable vapes ban, expanding on the definition of a disposable vape and outlining the fines that will be issued to businesses who continue to sell and supply disposables after a ban.
The ban, which is scheduled to come into force in April 2025, is subject to separate regulations in Scotland which closely resemble those in England. Scotland are the first UK nation to provide more detail on their definition of a disposable vape, which is as follows:
