Read: Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust commits to social impact framework
In partnership with former Public Health Minister Rt Hon Anne Milton and former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening, KMPT will produce an Impact Report to measure its social impact using the architecture of the Purpose Goals.
Read: Post-Brexit Britain needs better approach on levelling up - here's how
Getting a stronger plan in place is crucial for the Prime Minister and it has to be about working with and through local communities.
Read: Equality of opportunity should drive the agenda of every organisation in 2023
Purpose Coalition businesses, universities and the wider public sector have reacted to the cost of living challenges looking at how they can support their communities, their customers and colleagues internally.
Read: New report launched to outline social impact of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) has become one of the first NHS organisations to launch an Impact Report outlining its impact in delivering social value across an innovative set of purpose-led measures.
Read: Health champions celebrated at new awards
NHS organisations playing a leading role in spreading opportunity across the UK have been celebrated at a new set of awards. The Purpose Health Coalition Awards recognise those NHS organisations and their staff that are committed to boosting opportunity and being truly purpose-led.
Read: Waiting lists are yet another example of health inequality in the UK
‘W’ for waiting lists will loom large in Therese Coffey’s to-do list as the new Health Secretary gets her feet under her Whitehall desk.
Read: Cost of Living Taskforce is launched to address Britain’s biggest challenge
Rt Hon Justine Greening and Lord Walney have today launched the Cost of Living Taskforce, made up of businesses and public sector organisations committed to helping their customers, colleagues and communities through this difficult time.
Read: Universities being more open has helped drive social mobility
Yet some of the biggest steps forward in the past 20 years in driving social mobility have come from universities working hard to open up higher education to more people and communities, often those the first in their family to go to university, as I was, and it must continue.
Read: The health inequality crisis: Time is running out
The health gap is big and getting bigger. Further stark evidence – if it were needed – was published this week on the extent of health inequalities across England.
Read: Barney over Sunak’s call to ‘level up Tunbridge Wells’ prefaces the debate to come
Purpose-led businesses identify those amongst their employees, customers and communities who need the most support, whatever their background, wherever they live. They are leading the way in ensuring that resources are properly targeted so that they are most effective.
Read: The rising tide of children’s poor mental health cannot be ignored
The incidence of poor mental health amongst children and young people is increasing to critical levels and it is becoming ever clearer that you can’t separate the individual experience from the huge social and economic repercussions that will follow.
Read: Place-based approach is key to levelling up success but measurement matters too - it’s why the Purpose Coalition’s partnership with the ONS can help us all get further faster
There was a warm welcome for this week’s historic devolution deal that will see a transfer of new powers to a directly elected mayor serving York and North Yorkshire, with £540 million of government investment over the next 30 years.
Read: If the Tories dial down levelling up they risk handing the initiative to Labour
As the Conservative leadership race enters its most important phase, there is increasing speculation over how committed the next prime minister will be to levelling up the United Kingdom.
Read: Urgent action needed as obesity crisis threatens more lives
In our latest blog, Anne Milton talks obesity and its extensive impact on physical and mental wellbeing.
Read: Creative solutions show businesses are one step ahead in hybrid working
In our latest blog, Lord Walney discusses hybrid working and the evolving role of the office.
Read: A better understanding of loneliness will help tackle it more effectively
It’s National Loneliness Week and although the world has once again opened up, and most of us are free to carry on with our lives as usual, the problem of loneliness hasn’t gone away.
Read: Potential links between socioeconomic deprivation and dementia yet another illustration of health inequality
In our latest blog, Anne Milton discusses the potential links between socio-economic deprivation and dementia.
Read: Small steps to better physical and mental wellbeing
Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference - the tiny adjustments we can make to our lives, often over time, that will significantly improve them. That is certainly true of our physical health, but it is also true of our mental health. Often the two are inextricably linked.
Read: Levelling up report recognises PHP’s social impact
Primary Health Properties (PHP) launches a report with the Purpose Coalition which examines its current impact on levelling up and how it can go further in the future.
Read: Employers launch Equality of Opportunity Coalition campaign to track progress on socio-economic diversity
A group of leading employers has launched a major UK campaign to make tracking and reporting socio-economic diversity common practice in boardrooms across the UK.