Meet our April 2025 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 commercially minded charities. But who are these organisations and how do they make an impact? (Drumroll…) Please meet our April 2025 placement organisations!
100x Impact Accelerator
The world faces multiple complex and systemic challenges, from poverty and inequality to environmental degradation and health crises. Bold, impact-focused organisations are championing innovative solutions to address these problems, but very few (if any) are at the scale needed. At 100x, they believe that rapidly scaling social innovation is not just possible but essential. 100x exist to answer a simple yet profound question: what does it take to scale the impact of social innovations so they can reach hundreds of millions of people?
100x’s work sits at the intersection of evidence-based research and entrepreneurship. Being powered by London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) means they can uniquely combine academic rigour and bold, practical action to achieve impact at scale. This positions them as a model for how the best financial, intellectual and network support can drive systemic change.
Find out more here.
Amplify Goods
Amplify Goods are making it easy to switch to suds and scents that put people and the planet first. Whether managing sustainability targets, overseeing facility operations, or choosing better products for the home, their refill-first model offers a trusted, net-positive solution that goes beyond surface-level claims.
Founded by two On Purpose Fellows, Amplify Goods are working hard to put their values into action, primarily via the B2B market - selling through distributors into hospitality, big business, SMEs alike, with plans to expand their bar soaps offering currently on sale at Crisis, into major retail in 2025. Each product is designed to soften the environmental footprint and strengthen the handprint in communities whilst ensuring products function to a level exceeding client’s expectation.
Find out more here.
British International Investment
British International Investment (BII) is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation.
At the heart of the UK Government’s international financing offer to emerging economies, BII builds partnerships with British businesses that operate in developing and emerging economies and who share their aims. BII are a key partner to emerging economies that are most vulnerable to the climate emergency. Over the next five years, at least 30 per cent of the organisation’s total new commitments will be in climate finance, making them one of the world’s largest such investors in Africa.
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Bridges Outcomes Partnership
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is a not-for-profit social enterprise. Over the last decade, they have been partnering with pioneering Government officials, NGOs, social investors and impact-driven organisations globally to develop a new model for the delivery of human and environmental services.
By taking a more collaborative, more flexible approach – while retaining very clear accountability – outcomes partnerships have delivered better outcomes for people and the planet, and better value for public money.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
As the dedicated department to the UK’s cultural, media, sporting, tourism and charity sectors, DCMS are growing the economy and enriching lives across the country. At DCMS, they deliver an incredible impact on people’s everyday lives - from supporting local museums, galleries, cinemas and theatres to delivering sports pitches and youth facilities, or backing charities making a huge difference right across the country. These are the things that bring pride to local areas, deliver huge health and wellbeing benefits, and make life worth living.
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Earthshot Prize
The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental award established by Prince William and The Royal Foundation to discover, support, and scale innovative solutions that address the planet's most urgent environmental challenges. It focuses on five ambitious goals, called the Earthshots, which aim to repair the planet by 2030:
- Protect and Restore Nature
- Clean Our Air
- Revive Our Oceans
- Build a Waste-Free World
- Fix Our Climate
Find out more here.
Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB) is leading efforts to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering. Engineers will play a pivotal role in designing the solutions we need for humanity and the planet to thrive. Achieving this demands a rapid shift towards globally responsible approaches, requiring a complete reimagining of engineering education and industry practices.
Part of a global movement of over 30 Engineers Without Borders organisations, EWB is empowering individuals, teams, and organisations with the skills and expertise needed to drive this urgent change.
Find out more here.
Generation
Generation is a charity with the mission to support diverse people facing barriers to employment into life-changing careers. The charity runs free, full-time, profession-specific training programmes with extensive wrap-around support and job placement activity including matchmade interviews with employer partners.
The charity, with an Outstanding in all areas Ofsted inspection, delivers sector-leading levels of job outcomes for its beneficiaries.
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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 (IoUH), they believe that we can remove obstacles to good health, by making urban areas healthier places for everyone to live. IoUH 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.
Their programmes are long-term and formed of partnerships at local, borough, national and international scales. Using their funding and expertise, IoUH back home-grown initiatives, evidence-based approaches from around the world, and exciting, brand-new ideas.
Find out more here.
Milbank
Milbank Group is a family-owned business founded in the 1820s, now comprising a diverse and rapidly growing portfolio of 11 companies. As long-term custodians of their businesses, Milbank take responsibility for improving their environmental and community impact.
The organisation recognises that reducing harm to our planet is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and they are determined to act with urgency. While some of their industries have an inherent environmental footprint and the industries very existence is harmful to our planet, Milbank believe that through their leadership, the organisation can not only minimise their impact but also set a precedent for others to follow within multiple sectors.
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NHS Transformational Partners in Health Care
TPHC Consulting is an NHS consultancy arm hosted by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The team was created by and for the NHS and care sector. Their portfolio of work is ever expanding, and spans across sectors such as integrated health and care systems, primary care, mental health, health and justice, digital services as well as functional areas such as programme management and delivery, organisational development, analytics, and strategy.
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Purposeful Ventures
Purposeful Ventures aims to create a fairer society where all young people thrive. They are the UK’s leading charity for researching, incubating, launching and scaling initiatives and funds that tackle issues across education and society, from cradle to career, creating wide-spread system change and providing young people opportunities in education and beyond.
Purposeful Ventures offers philanthropists and funders bespoke advice, using an evidence-based approach to help them to identify high-impact opportunities to fund. They then partner with visionary individuals and mission-driven organisations with strong theories of change. Purposeful Ventures help them turn great ideas into sustainable and successful ventures by offering fully individualised and very hands-on support, access to funding and a ‘high-challenge, high-support’ home.
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SaniTap
SaniTap builds climate resilience and improve the health of very low-income communities in Madagascar. Their flagship initiative will provide safe drinking water to over 4,310 communities by restoring, and then maintaining, existing wells which have fallen into disrepair. It will provide ongoing regular maintenance and emergency repair to ensure the availability of continued clean water (minimum 95% uptime) for 15+ years, building climate resilience and improving the health of very low communities in Madagascar.
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Spring Impact
Spring Impact is a global non-profit that works with the world’s most ambitious social purpose organisations to solve big problems. They believe proven social impact solutions must operate at a much greater scale to achieve significant transformational change. They also know that social change makers and innovators will have a more meaningful impact by building on what already works, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
Over the last 10+ years, Spring Impact has partnered with hundreds of ambitious organisations and leaders across the globe and they’ve learnt a lot about what it takes to scale social innovations.
Find out more here.
Subak
Subak is a Climate Think Tank and an impact multiplier for climate not-for-profits. Founded in 2020, Subak revolutionises how we respond to climate change by leveraging collective resources and infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among their member organisations. The name 'Subak' reflects the organisation’s values, inspired by a 9th-century Indonesian cooperative system developed by rice farmers to share resources, enabling them all to thrive despite challenging environmental conditions.
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Van Leer Foundation
Since 1949, the Van Leer Foundation has been dedicated to supporting young children, caregivers and communities worldwide. The organisation’s work is grounded in the legacy of the Van Leer Family, and their leadership in the fields of early childhood development, the human sciences and the arts.
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VISA
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year.
Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
The Visa Sustainability Solution Team aims to accelerate sustainable consumption and behaviours by driving sustainable commerce as they work towards inventing products that will fuel the change they seek, while embedding sustainability solutions in everything they do. They aim to leverage the right partners, to have a massive impact through their network, data, and reach.
Find out more here.