Common Purpose Blog

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 [...]

In a recession there are many who will become unemployed and suffer as a result of the economic downturn, but it seems somehow so much worse to read that we are heading towards having one million young unemployed people in this country. That’s an awful lot of talent, of bright, enthusiastic and eager young people [...]

When I started work, I was very lucky. My first boss gave me opportunities to lead small teams from a very early age – to learn some of the lessons at an age when I could simply bounce back from my mistakes – to mess up when the stakes were not high – to succeed [...]