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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...

No-one is acting fast enough to tackle the urgency of the climate crisis. The Paris Agreement gives state actors a universal mandate to reach this target: keeping temperature rising within 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. It was...

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...

Lydia Levy is an October 2019 On Purpose Associate, currently on placement with the Centre for Social Impact Bonds at the Government Inclusive Economy.Each week of the lockdown brings news of another household name going out of business and it’s...

By Reka Budai, On Purpose 2016 October Fellow, currently working in education and supporting social enterprises to get started with their impact measurement.If you open up any news site nowadays, you will surely find at least one article about...