Meet our April 2022 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 charities. But who are these organisations and how do they make an impact? (Drumroll…) Please meet our April 2022 placement organisations!

Altruistiq

We believe that business has the power to be a force for positive change in the world. And that those who lead this wave of stakeholder capitalism will uplift their brand and bottom line alongside their community. Our mission is to help businesses do more of what is measurably good, and less of what is immeasurably wrong. We are just getting started.

Altruistiq’s platform enables large enterprises with complex supply chains to automate sustainability data measurement, management and exchange - with unparalleled accuracy and ease.

Find out more here.

Big Society Capital

Big Society Capital is an independent financial institution with a social mission, set up to help grow social investment in the UK. Our aim is to improve the lives of people in the UK by connecting investment to charities and social enterprises that are creating social change. We know that investment can help charities and social enterprises achieve more. We believe the greatest chance to improve lives comes when investors and enterprises are both motivated by social mission.

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Bridges Outcomes Partnerships

The Bridges Outcomes Partnerships network brings together experts in policy, programme delivery, data analysis and impact measurement. Our focus is on working collaboratively with our government and charity partners to design and deliver more effective services – so we can help more people to improve their lives and achieve better value for public money.

Find out more here.

British International Investment (formerly known as CDC Group)

We are the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution, with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private-sector growth and innovation. We are a proud part of the UK’s offer to help developing and emerging countries meet their significant financing needs for infrastructure and enterprise. We bring the best of British finance, innovation, ethics and standards to create sustainable and equitable economic outcomes for those that are most in need of our financial support.

Find out more here.

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation

At Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, our mission is clear – to build the foundations of a healthier society. For over 500 years, we’ve been a constant in London’s ever-changing landscape, at the leading edge of health. Our home in the heart of a global city is vibrant and diverse, but it is also a place with stark health inequity. We focus on backing people and ideas to drive more equitable health. As an independent foundation, we invest, partner, engage and influence to come at big health challenges from all angles. Through our family of forward-looking organisations, we collaborate with our communities, partners and hospitals, and use our assets to transform lives.

Find out more here. 

Impact on Urban Health

The places that we grow up, live, and work impact how healthy we are. Urban areas, like inner-city London, have some of the most extreme health outcomes. At Impact on Urban Health, we believe that we can remove obstacles to good health, by making urban areas healthier places for everyone to live. We address these health inequalities by focusing on a few complex health issues that disproportionately impact people living in cities – childhood obesity, multiple long-term conditions, the health effects of air pollution, and adolescent mental health. Our programmes are long-term and formed of partnerships at local, borough, national and international scales. Using our funding and expertise, we back home-grown initiatives, evidence-based approaches from around the world, and exciting, brand-new ideas.

Find out more here.

King's College London 

King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. We are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through our commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, we are creating positive change in our communities, both in London and on the world stage.

Find out more here. 

Life Moments

At Life Moments, we strongly believe that people need more help and guidance navigating complex financial decisions at different points in their lives. We’re a profit and purpose business working in partnership with some of the best financial services firms to help bridge the advice gap in society. With our smart technology and ethical approach, we empower these organisations to build trust – widening their audience and scaling their impact as a result.

Find out more here.

NHS Healthcare Consulting

We are an NHS consultancy service and it is our ambition to help transform services and improve outcomes across the NHS. We have specialists with unparalleled knowledge and experience in fields including project management, communications and engagement, data analysis and organisational development. We draw our staff from across health, social care and the commercial world, ensuring we have subject matter experts across a wide range of support needs, from population health management to primary care and the justice system. We have supported some of London and the South East’s most important and complex health and care projects, helping to keep people well and improve care.

Find out more here. 

Oddbox

Oddbox is a social enterprise founded in 2016 focused on tackling food waste and driving behaviour change with innovative solutions. We are London’s first wonky fruit and veg box subscription, providing an easy and convenient way for people to reduce their environmental impact. We have grown over 400% YoY now delivering to over 10,000 homes and businesses with a revenue run-rate of £3mn.

We have saved over 1,000 tonnes of produce from going to waste. But beyond this, we want to help people reconnect with how food is grown and provide more insight into the huge amount of resources used and then wasted when produce is not harvested or is sent to landfill. Our vision is to use data and technology to empower our customers to track their impact and change their behaviour. The way Fitbit helps people walk more, we want to help people waste less. Providing insightful data to drive behaviour change.

Find out more here. 

ReLondon

ReLondon is LWARB, renamed – a partnership of the Mayor of London and London’s boroughs to improve waste and resource management in the capital and accelerate our transition to a low carbon circular city. Our mission is to make London a global leader in sustainable ways to live, work and prosper by revolutionising our relationship with stuff and helping London waste less and reuse, repair, share and recycle more.

Find out more here. 

Sky's the Limit

Sky's the Limit’s vision is a world where every entrepreneur has the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Our mission is to create a global community where entrepreneurs and their allies create meaningful relationships and grow together. We connect underrepresented entrepreneurs with volunteer business professionals for free one-on-one mentoring. We also provide business guides to all our members, plus monthly funding opportunities.

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South Kilburn Trust

South Kilburn is an area in the south of Brent, bordering Camden and Westminster. The area suffers from high levels of deprivation, including worklessness, poverty, health concerns, low household incomes and issues of social integration. Despite this, South Kilburn has a history of creativity and strong, supportive communities.

The South Kilburn Trust was established in 2009 as a legacy from the New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme, aimed at supporting local people to tackle these issues. In 2018 we took on the management of a building, The Granville, in the heart of South Kilburn. Over 140 years old, The Granville was renovated to incorporate affordable workspace as well as space for community activities and events. We manage these services, as well as business support, community engagement and youth provision, to support local people and make a positive difference to their lives.

Find out more here.

Sustainable Ventures

At Sustainable Ventures we believe in the power of commercial innovation to address the twin challenges of climate change and resource scarcity. We are on a mission to develop 1000 sustainable start-ups by 2025. Since 2011, we have founded 10 companies, invested in 30 and supported the development of over 250 more. Our team includes some of the country’s most talented sector specialist venture development and investment professionals, all dedicated to creating value for our community whilst making the world a better place.

Find out more here. 

The Climate Fresk

The Climate Fresk is a French NGO, created in 2018 by Cédric Ringenbach. Our goal is to promote quality climate education throughout the world, by spreading the Climate Fresk workshop, and training and upskilling facilitators. Our workshop is a collective intelligence game, based on IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports, that enables everyone to understand the causes and consequences of climate change.

Climate Fresk is experiencing exponential growth: so far, over 300,000 people have participated in our workshops, and over 13,000 facilitators have been trained. The first million participants is expected to be reached in 2022.

Find out more here. 

The Conduit

The Conduit was founded in 2018 by Nick Hamilton, Paul van Zyl and Rowan Finnegan. Our aim is to convene a collaborative community that scales and accelerates solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Our vision is a just, prosperous and sustainable world and we are committed to supporting our community to achieve this vision whilst also ensuring we ourselves are an industry leader in sustainable and ethical hospitality.

Find out more here.

Voice 21

Voice 21 is the UK’s oracy education charity. We exist to empower every child to use their voice for success in school and life. Our work transforms learning and life chances through talk by increasing access to a high-quality oracy education for those that need it most.

Over the past five years, Voice 21 has grown from operating in a single school in London to a national organisation, with a network of over 600 schools across the country. We are now embarking on our new five-year strategy which aims to deepen our impact on outcomes for this generation of children and young people and those to come by significantly increasing the number of Voice 21 Oracy Schools in areas of high need and mobilising a movement of teachers and schools.

Find out more here. 

West London Zone

We work in West London - an area of deep inequality where 1 in 5 children and young people aren’t getting the support they need to thrive. Our vision is of a West London community working together so that every child can thrive.

We help children and young people build the relationships and skills they need to get on track socially, emotionally and academically to thrive in adulthood. We do this by building trusted relationships, providing specialist support and joining up each child’s support system, including families, schools and local organisations, to deliver a personalised 2-year support plan for each child.

Find out more here.