Common Purpose Blog

Following the UK’s comprehensive spending review last week, this is a crucial time for the country to consider how it can do more with less. For example, the NHS can simply no longer afford itself. Old models, old mindsets and old systems simply can’t continue to operate efficiently, with significantly less resource. The UK would [...]

Adirupa Sengupta, International Director at Common Purpose, reflects on the Asian Women of Achievement Awards held last night in London. Last night I attended the Asian Women of Achievement Award at the London Hilton. I was shortlisted for the Social & Humanitarian Award…and thrilled to be, but also completely in awe of my contemporaries and [...]

Twenty years ago Nelson Mandela took his first steps to freedom from the Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town after 27 years of incarceration. Today, South Africa is celebrating this historical moment and the legacy of its first black and democratically elected president, his role in ending apartheid, and the immense change this meant for [...]