Our stories

When I was invited to write this piece, I struggled at first to find a suitable theme and tone. Sure, I could write about why I feel compelled to support refugees: my own privileged experience of securing residency abroad, which brought into...

The law is meant to protect us. But for most of history, there has been a gap in the law that has left people vulnerable to patterns of controlling or coercive behaviour in an ongoing relationship. The Home Office identifies coercive control as...

Why did you decide to join On Purpose as Head of Business Development & Community? From the moment I discovered On Purpose it felt like I found home. I was carrying out a Life Design process myself which, funnily enough, is taught on a number of...

Having established in my previous post what I understand effective altruism (EA) to be, I now want to pose an additional question: How helpful is it as an approach? Here I’ll take each question from my previous post in turn and share my views....

During their time on the Associate Programme, our Associates work in two purpose-driven organisations and get hands-on experience with challenging industry projects. Placement hosts can be social enterprises, social divisions of for-profit...

We all want to make the world a better place. Whether that is by campaigning for safer streets in our local community, donating money to charity for projects abroad or bringing a couple of tote bags to our weekly shop. There are so many ways to...

People are known for different things amongst their friends. Within my friendship group, I am the one who hates waste. Passionately, vocally, perhaps obsessively. And friends have admitted to feeling bad throwing away food in front of me. As an...

The right to protest is a fundamental cornerstone of any vibrant and tolerant democracy. We’ve all seen the important role that protest has played in movements, such as Black Lives Matter and the Iranian ‘Mahsa Amini protests’, to increase...

Systems thinking around human rights is not something new. The 10th of December marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the General Assembly of the United Nations . The year was 1948 when...

Why did you decide to join On Purpose as Programme Delivery Manager? After working in an area of social impact I was deeply passionate about for five years, I wanted to bring in something different to refresh my connection with social change....

The cost of living is high on the news agenda at the moment. And rightly so. Too many people are having to make choices - such as between heating and eating - which should have been consigned to the history books when we left the Victorian age....

In our weekly marketing meeting a few weeks back, one of the agenda items was “Black History Month - coming up” and the topic for discussion was what should we do for it. I felt that familiar feeling in my stomach that occurs anytime this agenda...