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In spring 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Members of the British government described the virus as a “great leveller” on the basis that it affects people from all walks of life. The fallacy of this claim...

Applications are open for the third cohort of the On Purpose Pathfinder Programme . This Programme is for people who want to make fundamental changes in their lives, but are unsure where to start. Femke van der Veer, expert facilitator, tells us...

Patrick Ellen (he/him) is an October 2020 On Purpose associate, currently on placement at Sustainable Ventures where he is focussing on broadening access to employability and entrepreneurship in the cleantech sector. If you do one thing during...

Image source: Sergey Tinyakov Victoire Guyot is an April 2020 On Purpose Associate, currently on placement with the Innovation and Insight team at Samaritans. There are many great things about being part of the On Purpose Associate Programme and...

A Moment of Change is a podcast created by the On Purpose London October 2019 cohort. Over five episodes, we speak with leaders within the social and environmental impact sectors to find out how 2020 has impacted them both professionally and...

A Moment of Change is a podcast created by the On Purpose London October 2019 cohort. Over five episodes, we speak with leaders within the social and environmental impact sectors to find out how 2020 has impacted them both professionally and...

A Moment of Change is a podcast created by the On Purpose London October 2019 cohort. Over five episodes, we speak with leaders within the social and environmental impact sectors to find out how 2020 has impacted them both professionally and...

A Moment of Change is a podcast created by the On Purpose London October 2019 cohort. Over five episodes, we speak with leaders within the social and environmental impact sectors to find out how 2020 has impacted them both professionally and...

Fellows from the On Purpose London October 2019 cohort are excited to share their new podcast, A Moment of Change . Over five episodes they will be digging deeper into the impact of 2020 and the fundamental shifts this year has triggered in our...

2020 has brought significant political, social and economic disruption in many areas of society. It is a moment of change that will lead to fundamental shifts in the world going forward — both bad and good. Fellows from the On Purpose London...

Daniel Hutt is an April 2020 On Purpose Associate, currently on placement with the UK Impact team at Save the Children UK.An incredibly positive response to the pandemic has been the movement of thousands of volunteers across the UK to join local...

On Purpose Associate, midway through her second placement at digital career coaching social enterprise, Stay Nimble, having spent 6 months at Big Society Capital for her first placement.As social distancing measures begin to ease and we witness...