Rt Hon Justine Greening and Lord Walney have today launched the Cost of Living Taskforce, made up of businesses and public sector organisations committed to helping their customers, colleagues and communities through this difficult time.

Businesses which are playing a leading role in spreading opportunity across the UK have been celebrated today at the first ever Business Purpose Coalition Levelling Up Awards 2022.

Rt Hon Justine Greening talks to Pertemps Network Group Chair Carmen Watson about the recruitment empire’s journey and its efforts to make a lasting difference in changing times.

Travelodge, the UK’s largest independent hotel brand which operates over 590 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain and employs over 10,000 colleagues is delighted to announce a joint partnership with Purpose Coalition on a Levelling Up Impact Report.

Yet some of the biggest steps forward in the past 20 years in driving social mobility have come from universities working hard to open up higher education to more people and communities, often those the first in their family to go to university, as I was, and it must continue.

Purpose-led businesses identify those amongst their employees, customers and communities who need the most support, whatever their background, wherever they live. They are leading the way in ensuring that resources are properly targeted so that they are most effective.

Legal and professional services group, Gateley, has launched its Levelling Up Impact Report which assesses the company’s current impact on social mobility and recommends areas where it could extend that impact in the future.

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.