Some writers predict that the world cannot avoid an environmental collapse, others that we have it within our power to mitigate the worst effects of climate change and to make the transition to a sustainable economy.
In St David’s Bay in Wales, a community co-operative has formed that aims to change this. Its name is Câr y Môr, which means ‘love of the sea’, and its magic ingredient is seaweed.
New research from Pilotlight estimates that 100,000 skilled “climate volunteers” are needed to accelerate environmental action in the UK. Published today, the findings reveal an urgent need amongst environmental charities for professional support from skilled volunteers.
Morgan Stanley today announced the winners of this year’s Strategy Challenge in the U.K.
Pilotlight is a charity that makes it possible for business experts to use their skills to support frontline charities working with vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
Ed Mayo, chief executive at Pilotlight says projects like the Big Help Out are welcome in their own right for the good that they can do, “but with needs so acute across the voluntary sector, it is vital that this doesn’t obscure the need for more radical action to nurture a more participatory and caring society”.
We’re told that finding your purpose has never been more important; finding time to fulfil it can seem impossible.
If we make one resolution for 2023, it could be this: to keep up the level of generosity that we have shown over the Christmas period.
The shift to new patterns of work coming out of the pandemic is helping to spur a new generation of progressive employment practices. In time, I believe, these will come to define the workplace of the future.
With loneliness on the rise in the UK, Amy Pollard has been looking for new ways for people to come together.
One of the first questions a charity should ask of itself is whether it can achieve its charitable objects on its own, or whether doing so requires co-operation.
