Insight

This is not a traditional book review. I’ve known the author Jon Yates for well over 10 years. We worked closely together during the launch of the National Citizen Service, which is mentioned at a number of points in his book. Many of the case studies and statistics, as well as much of the research he discusses, informed the ethos…

We are delighted to have been selected as a partner in a complex and ambitious research programme funded by the elite Marie Curie research programme. The LNETN establishes the first Europe-wide training network researching newness and legitimation across a range of disciplines and applications. The overall goal is to expand the understanding of these key notions amid a time of…

The Shaftesbury Partnership is delighted to announce the evaluation of our Retirement Transition Initiative (RTI) pilot. It finds that RTI participants are more than twice as likely to feel positive about retirement. ‘The weekend was a real trigger for action … I’ve told lots of people how good it was, and now they all want to go!’ – Sue, RTI participant  ‘We want…

Earlier this week Shaftesbury Partnership held the second in its series of Doing Good and Doing Well roundtables. These events provide a platform for people to take a step back from their day-to-day work and reflect on the ways in which responsible businesses and their people can deliver a wider value to society. The focus of this second roundtable was on skills…

Last Thursday, Social Business Partnership (SBP) and British Gas co-hosted a special roundtable dinner in Manchester on how responsible businesses and their people can deliver a wider value to the society. The event brought together senior business leaders from a wide range of organisations, including Jaguar Land Rover, Sodexo and Yorkshire Water, to discuss the ways in which large companies…