There was a warm welcome for this week’s historic devolution deal that will see a transfer of new powers to a directly elected mayor serving York and North Yorkshire, with £540 million of government investment over the next 30 years.

As the Conservative leadership race enters its most important phase, there is increasing speculation over how committed the next prime minister will be to levelling up the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

In our latest blog, Anne Milton talks obesity and its extensive impact on physical and mental wellbeing.

In our latest blog, Lord Walney discusses hybrid working and the evolving role of the office.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sport can change people’s lives on and off the field.

Our latest blog from Seema Kennedy OBE.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.