Common Purpose Blog

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

Yesterday, 40 leaders from the UK and India gathered at the Tata Management Training Centre in Pune, India for the first event of the five year Dishaa initative. Launched by British Prime Minister David Cameron on 28 July 2010, Dishaa is an initiative that will expand, enrich and energise relations between India and the UK. [...]

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 [...]

Not that it comes as a surprise, but the talk of widespread education cuts in the UK has hit the news headlines today. In fact, the headlines have been there for a bit. Projected cuts to universities mean fewer places and a brain drain of teaching and research talent, and The Prince’s Trust has also [...]

My house has been a bit of a hotel lately. For the last month there has been a constant flow of friends and family visiting. It has been fun. I like people staying over because it gives me a chance to catch up with people. As happens our conversations covered mutual friends, family members, life, [...]