Darius Norell is the co-founder of Spring Project, a social enterprise that brings together job seekers, recruiters and empty spaces to provide world class training. The three foundations of the training are: being of service, personal responsibility and integrity. More…

Adam is a Founder and the Executive Director of Student Hubs as well as the Founder and Executive Director of Hub Commercial Ventures CIC, sister organisations with a joint mission to promote social action, social entrepreneurship and citizenship. Turl Street Kitchen, in…

Catriona is Director (a.k.a Pirate Captain) of Hackney Pirates, an innovative education project that develops literacy and creativity in young people, by giving them one to one attention in an unconventional learning environment. Previously, Catriona was a ‘Teach…

Niraj Varia is the Chair of On Purpose. Niraj has been involved in a range of work in the social sector, focusing on African development and social enterprise. His work in African development ranges from supporting TechnoServe in the development of agricultural value chain…

Why are there too few scaled and investment ready social businesses? What is the role of philanthropy in overcoming this issue? From Blue Print to Scale, a report produced by Monitor Group in collaboration with Acumen Fund, argues that…

Are labels ever useful? What can we learn from ascertaining someone’s Myers-Briggs type? Is one personality type a better or more likely leader than any other? Patrick Ballin, one of the On Purpose’s team of coaches shares his thoughts on the subject of Labelling in his blog below.

As the world looks for new approaches to business and innovative solutions to some critical problems, do we also need a new approach to leadership? As the other On Purpose Associates and I left Embercombe on Sunday after a long…