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Tottenham, Hackney, Croydon, Ealing, Barking – what do these places have in common? Aside from being areas of London, all of them were left battered and bruised by last summer’s riots. Cast your minds back almost nine months to a heat wave similar to the one we’re experiencing now and these areas, as well as [...]

This week’s youth unemployment statistics – nearly 1 million young people in the UK out of work – are sad and disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising! At Common Purpose, because we work with people across the UK and beyond, both employers and the unemployed, I have been hearing since the start of the year that [...]

There are many different incentives to try and get people and businesses to become more ‘green’, and in particular to reduce their carbon emissions. Do they work? Are carbon emissions dropping? And if they are, by enough to hit some of the targets that are thought to be necessary for the future safeguarding of resources [...]

Below is Rosie Walford’s guest post about her experiences on Day 4 of the Dishaa event that took place in Pune, India. To start from the beginning, check out her experience of Dishaa Day 1. To learn more about the initiative visit the Dishaa website. In the final phase of Dishaa, the mood changed again. [...]

We are so full of red velvet cupcakes, strawberry cheesecake muffins, chocolate and cherry rice crispy cakes and more! In the London office of Common Purpose, we have had a cake sale in aid of Red Nose Day. Several members of our staff have baked all sorts of edible goodies, most of us are wearing [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]