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As part of our policy to donate 5% of our profits to charity and social enterprises, we were delighted to contribute funds to help produce an abridged version of the environmental documentary Plastic Shores so that it could be used as an educational tool in secondary schools.

ShareAction Annual Lecture with Al Gore of Generation Asset Management.

Last month, unknown to us at the time, we had a call from a mystery shopper looking for mortgage advice. We were delighted to find out that Barchester came out top in the test.

The current financial year ends of 5 April 2013. Jonathon Clark of Barchester Green Investment has produced a checklist of some of the main planning opportunities to consider – hopefully well in advance of 5 April.

Many ethical investors have refused to put their money into armaments companies in order to help create a more peaceful world. Barchester clients and advisers who have been lucky enough to see or hear Berakah will know that an interfaith rock group is another way of achieving the same aim. Mo Nazam, born in Pakistan and raised in the UK, looks back on the first eight years of Berakah.

Financial planning is best done with reference to the global economic situation but making sense of that situation is becoming increasingly fraught. Emile Woolf gives his assessment of the wider context in which financial forecasts are now having to be made and notes that, in our struggle, “we are not alone!”

Whilst one billion people are undernourished, mostly in the developing world, the UN states that over three billion people could live on the grain fed to farmed animals. Vanessa Kelley of Barchester Green Investment looks at the issues surrounding the livestock industry and food sustainability.