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This is part two in a three part series. You can read part one here.Whilst it is easy to cherry pick individual examples of worker cooperatives, it is important to acknowledge that cooperatives can and do fail albeit at a lower rate. A report by...

Democracy: The fragile and beleaguered heart of modern British society. The legitimacy of the state rests perilously atop its broad shoulders. We insist on it, we fight for it, we shout, scream, protest and campaign when our democratic rights are...

The North and East London Commissioning Support Unit, or NEL, sits within the NHS and provides a range of services to commissioners¹, providers², and NHS England, such as finance, IT, HR, medicines management, business intelligence, and data...

For Actionable and On Purpose’s event on how to get your organisation to declare a Climate Emergency — https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-climate-emergency-from-declarations-to-action-tickets-97144324289As I walk the streets of an empty...

Ten years ago, five Associates started out on the year of our first ever On Purpose programme. Since then, hundreds have committed themselves to this transformational experience and thousands have become part of our community that makes these...

In this second interview in a series of discussions with leaders of the B Corp movement, I met with Ryan Kohn, co-founder of Propercorn.We discussed the benefits of using the B Corp framework to embed considerations of people and planet at an...

In this first interview, in a series of discussions with leaders of the B Corp movement, I met with James Ghaffari of B Lab UK.I asked James for his views on the suitability of B Corp certification for food and beverage businesses. In the face of...

by Surabhi N and Jake Levy (On Purpose April’19 Cohort)There’s a good chance you’re aware by now that one of the most powerful decisions you can make as an individual to fight climate change is to switch your pension plan to an ethical option....

Food waste. It’s a big problem.Roughly one-third of all food produced for people to eat globally gets lost or wasted, and if we took all of the food that was wasted in the US, UK and Europe, we could feed nearly all the one billion hungry people...

Hosting, we learnt at Co-Lab’s November 2019 training course, is setting up spaces and processes which are flexible enough to allow groups of people to come together and decide for themselves what work will be done and how they will do it — to...

I’m sure you’ve experienced it at some point. The rush of a new idea for a social enterprise. The theme-park exhilaration of realising this idea is going to change the world. The slight ego-boost that comes from humbly (but not too humbly)...

Alison Glossop, one our October 2019 Associates, is halfway through her first placement at NatWest. In this article she shares her experience of attending a zero carbon conference where she left feeling inspired to find new ways of fighting the...