Our stories

On Purpose London October 2014 Fellow, Investment Manager at “I wanted to feel, at the end of a hard week, like it had all been worthwhile.” Rachael Jagger wasn’t unhappy at work, but something was missing. Here’s how six months abroad, a social...

On Purpose London April 2013 Fellow, Head of Development at Jim tells us why he applied for the social enterprise leadership programme On Purpose and what’s happened next.Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your career?I studied Classics at...

On Purpose London April 2015 Fellow, Operations Manager at the Pasha Coupet Michaelsen worked as a finance lawyer before joining the On Purpose Associate Programme in April 2015. Today she is Operations Manager at the Refugee Support Network, a...

On Purpose London April 2013 Fellow, then Founder and Executive Director of Worthwhile , now Scale Manager at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland In my former job [in Human Resources at Rolls-Royce] I’d been trying to have conversations about social...

On Purpose London January 2012 Fellow, Innovation Partner at Interface“In the last couple of weeks, I was invited by The Body Shop to share what I do with all their employees globally; I had to pinch myself because, when I was younger, Anita...

On Purpose London April 2015 Fellow, Associate at SystemiQI loved my first placement [at Accelerate CIC, as part of the Associate Programme at On Purpose], but it was also very un-comfortable. The institution-building that I was doing involved...

On Purpose London April 2014 Fellow, CEO at Spiral Skills CIC

On Purpose London October 2013 Fellow, Programme Manager, Montpelier Foundation UK

On Purpose London 2011 Fellow, Career Strategist, Life Productions Co.

On Purpose London April 2013 Fellow, Founder and Executive Director of Worthwhile

On Purpose London October 2012 Fellow, Head of Impact at Oomph!

On Purpose London October 2014 Fellow, now Head of Operations at Fair Finance “I just couldn’t picture myself wanting to be any of my bosses.” David Puttergill longed to join a company that stood for something. Now, with the help of a social...