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Today, 8th January 2020, On Purpose declares a Climate Emergency, formally recognising the urgent threat faced by humanity. We urge you to do the same.On Purpose was launched in 2010 to support the development of the social and environmental...

Long gone are the days of stuffing your mattress full of bank notes; nowadays, it’s rare to live without access to financial products. We all rely on being able to access money from ATMs, pay back money we owe, and if we are lucky, save a bit for...

Depending on which day in December you speak to me, I either love or hate Christmas. I find it equal parts exciting and stressful; some years I have all my Christmas presents purchased before December begins and some years I’m in tears on...

Broadly, I’m in agreement with this article. If we are to win the fight against climate change, collective political action is necessary, individual consumer choices will do nothing on their own, and trying to overturn the negative effects of a...

On the second day of my On Purpose placement with the London Borough of Ealing I was invited to attend the exclusive Homes for Londoners event. Being completely new to the social housing sector and only one day in, I felt totally out of my depth...

On the 22nd August, in the wake of that the purpose of their companies is to serve all stakeholders, the Economist magazine asked itself: ?In light of the climate emergency and the recent (and upcoming) days of action, this question takes on even...

As an, sustainability and systems change are two of the key social and environmental topics that arise frequently in debate and discussion with my cohort and in our wider community.I believe the way we build food and farming systems has a major...

This obesity system map is taken from the .The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as it were divisible, separable simple and infinite. Our persistent,...

Exploring intentional communitiesOur cohort’s recent visit to a co-housing project outside of LondonHalf way through the On Purpose Associate Programme my cohort and I reflected on what we had learned so far and what areas we wanted to learn more...

As an , sustainability and systems change are two of the key social and environmental topics that arise frequently in debate and discussion with my cohort and in our wider community.I believe the way we build food and farming systems has a major...

As an , sustainability and systems change are two of the key social and environmental topics that arise frequently in debate and discussion with my cohort and in our wider community.I believe the way we build food and farming systems has a major...

On 27th June, our April 2019 cohort of the Associate Programme set off to Embercombe, on a weekend designed to bring us closer together as a group and to explore how we might address the unique challenges currently facing our world. The retreat...