Meet our October 2025 placement organisations
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 companies or commercially minded charities. But who are these organisations and how do they make an impact? (Drumroll…) Please meet our October 2025 placement organisations!
AllChild
AllChild empowers communities across the UK to help children build the social, emotional, and academic skills they need to flourish in their school and community.
AllChild’s vision is to build a movement for a new way of investing in children in this country, by developing a blueprint for change based on the organisation’s learning and evidence of impact in multiple places. AllChild’s ambition is to create a collaborative route to systems-change that can be adopted by national, regional and local government and by communities around the UK.
Find out more here.
Amplify Goods
Amplify Goods is creating paid opportunities for long-term unemployed homeless and disabled people - and wants to prove that businesses can thrive while prioritising inclusion.
Founded by two On Purpose Fellows, Amplify Goods is intersectionally owned and led - 100% women-owned, 50% Black-owned, 50% LGBTQIA+ owned. The organisation is working hard to put its values into action, primarily via the B2B market - selling suds and scents through distributors into hospitality, big business, SMEs alike, with plans to expand their bar soaps offering currently on sale at Crisis, into major retail in 2025. Each product is designed to soften the environmental footprint and strengthen the handprint in communities whilst ensuring products function to a level exceeding client’s expectation.
Find out more here.
BAFTA
BAFTA is a world famous arts charity focused on supporting careers, driving progressive industry culture, celebrating excellence and inspiring the future of film, games and TV.
Uniquely positioned to support three core pillars of the screen industries they empower and advocate for creative talent at all stages of their careers. The only arts charity convening more than 12,000 extraordinary global members to create a thriving community of film, games and TV professionals, BAFTA is proud to champion talent, help lay the foundations for industry change and recognise exceptional storytelling.
Find out more here.
BAFTA Albert
Albert is a BAFTA owned and industry backed organisation and the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability.
Founded in 2011, they support the film and TV industry to reduce the environmental impacts of production and to create content that supports a vision for a sustainable future. They offer online tools, training, events, practical guidance and thought leadership to all screen industry professionals with the aim of helping them to identify and act upon opportunities on and off screen that will lead to effective climate action.
Find out more here.
Better Society Capital
Better Society Capital is an independent financial institution with a social mission, set up to help grow social investment in the UK. Their aim is to improve the lives of people in the UK by connecting investment to charities and social enterprises that are creating social change.
Find out more here.
Compass Wellbeing
Compass Wellbeing is a health-oriented community interest company that has a focus on tackling health and social inequalities and benefiting the local community. A social enterprise Compass Wellbeing invests its resources into training, resilience building and enhancing the voice of local communities.
Find out more here.
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
As the dedicated department to the UK’s cultural, media, sporting, tourism and charity sectors, DCMS are growing the economy and enriching lives across the country. At DCMS, they deliver an incredible impact on people’s everyday lives - from supporting local museums, galleries, cinemas and theatres to delivering sports pitches and youth facilities, or backing charities making a huge difference right across the country. These are the things that bring pride to local areas, deliver huge health and wellbeing benefits, and make life worth living.
Find out more here.
eBay UK
eBay’s aim is to tackle the (structural) exclusion of marginalised communities from economic opportunity by using their business to facilitate and advocate for change. They want to utilise their strengths as a business to support people to develop new livelihood opportunities by targeting groups that face the most significant barriers to entering the labour market. Alongside this work, eBay want to provide a platform to those businesses that are driving inclusion by helping them grow, as well as using their voice and elevate the movement, most prominently through their eBay for Change programme, as well as their inclusive entrepreneurship programme of work which focuses on supporting Black women entrepreneurs, refugee entrepreneurs and budding young sneaker sellers to develop their businesses through ecommerce.
Find out more here.
Great Yellow
Great Yellow is the vital link between nature and finance, allowing nature restoration projects to run effectively with long-term capital support. Their mission is to transform the way businesses invest in and restore nature, creating lasting solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.
Find out more here.
Impact Investing Institute
The Impact Investing Institute is an independent, non-profit organisation which aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market.
In partnership with their dedicated volunteers, The Impact Investing Institute works to get the message out and bring people together through information sharing, events, guidance, research, and specific partnerships and projects - all dedicated to addressing the barriers that prevent more money from having a positive impact on people and planet.
Find out more here.
Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust
Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust (LPT) is a charity working to ensure that children in care have the same opportunities as everyone else.
LPT creates children's homes where every child can thrive. The organisation’s homes are nurturing, and the holistic approach places education at the heart of everything they do.
LPT invests in great people who can build genuine relationships in thoughtfully designed spaces that truly feel like home. LPT learns from and shares what they learn with other organisations and use their insights to influence policymakers, so that standards of care improve nationally.
Find out more here.
Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures is a leading venture capital firm in Europe, developing and investing in high growth technology companies.
Molten is listed on the London Stock Exchange and invests across four sectors: Enterprise & SaaS; AI, Deeptech & Hardware; Consumer Technology; and Digital Health.
Find out more here.
NatWest Social & Community Capital
NatWest Social & Community Capital is a charity supported by NatWest to help social enterprises, charities and community businesses.
The purpose of the S&CC team is to provide support to businesses set up to tackle important social issues. They do this through offering financial and business support to social enterprises, and by creating partnerships that actively grow and promote the social enterprise sector.
Find out more here.
NatWest Sustainable Banking
Sustainable Banking works to create a better bank that acts ethically, takes responsibility, and strives to make a positive economic, social and environmental impact for all of NatWest’s stakeholders.
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Purposeful Ventures
Purposeful Ventures aims to create a fairer society where all young people thrive.
They are the UK’s leading charity for researching, incubating, launching and scaling initiatives and funds that tackle issues across education and society, from cradle to career, creating wide-spread system change and providing young people opportunities in education and beyond.
Purposeful Ventures offers philanthropists and funders bespoke advice, using an evidence-based approach to help them to identify high-impact opportunities to fund. They then partner with visionary individuals and mission-driven organisations with strong theories of change. Purposeful Ventures help them turn great ideas into sustainable and successful ventures by offering fully individualised and very hands-on support, access to funding and a ‘high-challenge, high-support’ home.
Find out more here.
Reboot the Future
Reboot the Future is a not-for-profit and social enterprise, co-founded by Kim Polman on the timeless principle of the Golden Rule: , "Treat others, and the planet, as you would wish to be treated", Reboot the Future believe that by embedding this simple, powerful ethic into how we live, lead, and work, they can spark a profound shift in the systems that shape our world.
Reboot the Future’s work focuses on engaging individuals, educators, business leaders, and policy influencers with imaginative resources, storytelling, and campaigns that challenge the dominant narratives of separation, competition, and consumption. Instead, Reboot the Future promotes a vision of interdependence, kindness, and long-term thinking—values that are essential in the face of the climate crisis and widening social inequalities.
Through their educational programmes, Reboot the Future reach thousands of students and teachers each year, equipping young people with the tools to reflect, question, and act.
Find out more here.
Social Finance Limited
Social Finance is an ambitious not for profit organisation that helps to design, fund and scale better solutions to complex social problems. Their vision is a fairer world where together they unleash the potential of people and communities. They do this by working in partnership with local and national governments, funders, communities and the social sector to tackle complex and enduring social problems in the UK and across the world.
Find out more here.
VISA
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year.
Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
The Visa Sustainability Solution Team aims to accelerate sustainable consumption and behaviours by driving sustainable commerce as they work towards inventing products that will fuel the change they seek, while embedding sustainability solutions in everything they do. They aim to leverage the right partners, to have a massive impact through their network, data, and reach.
Find out more here.