Anna Patton, London October 2014 Fellow, writes about four education organisations that spoke at our recent ‘Where purpose is driving business: education’ event.Talking about the UK education system isn’t very uplifting. Family income and where...
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Although it may say Associate Director Business Intelligence on his card, my husband’s real job/vocation/raison d’etre is being a counter terrorism expert. Always has been since we worked for UK Intelligence.Which always makes for a strange mood...
Continue readingMartin Cosarinsky Campos, October 2016 Associate, writes about his career shift and some tools he took into his first 6 month of the On Purpose Associate Programme.It was during another, countless, KPI improvement for GSK that I started to think...
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Continue readingMeasuring impact in the social sector has long been a misunderstood and often underutilised concept. However it can no longer be ignored with the increasing prominence of social enterprises and the added scrutiny they bring. Impact analysis is...
Continue readingSix years ago Stephanie Hogg set up the social enterprise NearFar, a sustainable fashion label based in Sierra Leone. Earlier this year she co-founded Gather&See an online boutique that sells ethical brands from around the world.
Continue readingIn our latest blog post, Eimear Fitzsimons (April 2014 Associate) shows us how to build and test an idea in 24 hours
Continue readingTerra Plana uses innovative approaches to create “sustainable” shoes. Creating sustainability in manufacturing is often thought of as minimizing the “footprint” of production (if you have an aversion to cheap puns you should probably stop...
Continue readingI was pleasantly surprised at the excellent OxfordJam gathering last month to see the interest amongst social enterprises of all shapes and sizes in a familiar topic — branding and marketing. Having spent the last few years at…
Continue readingBack in June, the April 2014 cohort had weekly training in the form of a creative team-building session with Jon Khoo, an On Purpose fellow and currently working with the Co-Innovation team at Interface. During this…
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