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How can someone’s business skills make a difference for a charity – if the business volunteer has very little knowledge about how the third s

World Kindness Day takes place on Thursday 13 November with the 2025 Pilotlight Summit in London forming a key part of the programme for the day. This year’s theme, Kindness as a Catalyst, will explore how kindness - often undervalued as a leadership skill - can be a powerful driver of collaboration

One of my beloved teachers shared an insight about experienced seamen: during a rough storm, their skill lies in stabilising the

Organisations often talk about intentions and actions, and the gaps between them, but what does this really mean?

One of the best definitions of sustainability I have come across (and by some counts, there are over 200 definitions) is that it is about humanity learning fast enough for us to survive.

To truly embrace innovation in sustainability, we must challenge ourselves to think differently about the role we play as leaders.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) evangelists claim we are in the next Industrial Revolution. But isn’t it our human capacity for empathy and self-awareness that truly drives meaningful change?

After a period of testing and development, Pilotlight Impact Day was born. Rather than focus on open questions of strategy, funding and governance for charities, the time was structured into small teams focusing on precise challenges, carefully prepared in advance, that were critical to the life of the charity.

Pilotlight has the privilege of working with a diverse and inspiring community of female leaders. To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked Stacey Carr, a Pilotlighter via our Ignite Initiative, to share her leadership journey with us and why she believes investing in your leadership development is so important for women.

Little did I know that a seemingly simple email was about to change my perspective in a big way. It was from Pilotlight. Thanking their ‘Pilotlighters’, both past and present, for their contribution to the skills-based volunteering programmes they run in partnership with Barclays. And whilst reading it, the thought struck me that I actually had a lot to thank Pilotlight for.

Something I hear frequently from charity leaders, especially founders, is ‘We can’t say no to someone who needs help!