Read: The Co-op Group launches social mobility impact report
The Co-op Group, the UK’s largest consumer co-operative, launches a Levelling Up Impact Report with the Purpose Coalition, assessing its current impact on levelling up across the country and recommending further action for the future.
Read: Centrica aims to recruit a net zero Battalion
Centrica hopes to recruit as many as 500 former soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel into roles across British Gas and the wider group by the end of 2023, to assist in the transition to Net Zero.
Read: Urgent action needed as obesity crisis threatens more lives
In our latest blog, Anne Milton talks obesity and its extensive impact on physical and mental wellbeing.
Read: Creative solutions show businesses are one step ahead in hybrid working
In our latest blog, Lord Walney discusses hybrid working and the evolving role of the office.
Read: A better understanding of loneliness will help tackle it more effectively
It’s National Loneliness Week and although the world has once again opened up, and most of us are free to carry on with our lives as usual, the problem of loneliness hasn’t gone away.
Read: Actions not words in Business Cost of Living White Paper
Purpose Business Coalition to publish a Cost of Living Best Practice White Paper to highlight the work that is being carried out across the UK.
The document will set out the actions and initiatives taken by a range of businesses that are having a direct impact on creating a country that has real equality of opportunity.
Read: Small steps to better physical and mental wellbeing
Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference - the tiny adjustments we can make to our lives, often over time, that will significantly improve them. That is certainly true of our physical health, but it is also true of our mental health. Often the two are inextricably linked.
Read: Levelling up report recognises PHP’s social impact
Primary Health Properties (PHP) launches a report with the Purpose Coalition which examines its current impact on levelling up and how it can go further in the future.
Read: Employers launch Equality of Opportunity Coalition campaign to track progress on socio-economic diversity
A group of leading employers has launched a major UK campaign to make tracking and reporting socio-economic diversity common practice in boardrooms across the UK.
Read: Businesses are already leading the levelling up agenda
In our latest blog, Lord Walney reflects on the Queen’s Speech, the cost of living crisis and the businesses that are already leading the way in levelling up.
Read: Loneliness is a problem best tackled together
In her latest blog, Seema Kennedy OBE discusses the importance of having conversations around loneliness - the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2022.
Read: A champion of social impact: how sport is changing society
Sport can change people’s lives on and off the field.
Our latest blog from Seema Kennedy OBE.
Read: BBC publishes plan to support levelling up across the UK
The BBC has set out a plan to ensure its social, cultural and economic benefits are felt in every community across the UK. The broadcaster has been working with The Purpose Coalition chaired by Justine Greening and, in a report published today, the BBC sets out how it will reach all corners of the UK’s regions and nations to support levelling up and increase equality of opportunity.
Read: The war in Ukraine merits a reassessment of ESG for British business
The seismic shock of Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing so much in the economic and political landscape, including an impact on what it means to be a good business and act responsibly.
Read: Diversity and inclusion is good for business
Recently, the UK law firm, Shoosmiths, hosted a roundtable with the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) and a number of organisations who have already committed and are on a journey to making diversity and inclusion a key part of their business strategy.
Read: Strengthen mental health support services to help the most vulnerable children
Last week the Government delivered on its commitment to set out a plan to ensure that our education system offers opportunity for all, alongside its wider programme to level up the country.
Read: Justine Greening: The Spring Statement won’t break Britain’s cycle of disadvantage
Rishi Sunak’s announcements can help but the only long-term solution to this economic crisis and those ahead is a structural rewiring of Britain
Read: SMS partners with Purpose Coalition on UK Levelling Up Impact Report
SMS, a market leader in the smart energy business, recently announced its partnership with the Purpose Coalition on a Levelling Up Impact Report which will set out its contribution to the levelling up agenda in the UK.
Read: The pandemic takes its toll on young people’s happiness and confidence
It’s a sad fact of our post-pandemic society - although not necessarily a surprising one - that the happiness and confidence of our young people has fallen to a 13-year low.
Read: Compass Group issues statement on the war in Ukraine and donates to humanitarian response
In a company announcement, Dominic Blakemore - Group Chief Executive Officer of Compass Group issued a statement on March 9, 2022