When: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Time: 6:30 – 9:00 Where: London Business School Sainsbury’s Building, Room: LT2 Sussex Gardens, London NW1 4SA Now that 2012 is in full swing many of you are probably in the midst of re-evaluating your career goals. Whether you are looking for a promotion or trying to break into the [...]

Imagine sung to the tune of the Twelve Days of Christmas: “40 skills a swapping, 21 Net Impacters Networking, 10 Mixtape songs a singing, 3 mince pies eaten (by me), 2 speakers speaking, one Christmas tree…” That’s the song-based summary of Tinsel, Time and Treats event run by Net Impact, London earlier this month. The [...]

Thank you all for attending NILP workshop “Creating effective business charity partnerships” led by Tom James from Three Hands, Nadia Al Yafai from White & Case and Laura Westwick, Bromley by Bow Centre. We hope that you found the workshop both informative and inspiring. The discussions on Wednesday last week highlighted some of the challenges people [...]

Thank you all for attending our Social Enterprise event in October! Below is a summary of the main highlights and topics discussed at each table. Recruitment – Tom Rippin The need for  talent management How and where social enterprises can find talent What On Purpose (and others) often look for in applicants How to reward [...]

If you are interested in participating in this course please e-mail: hello@idealmedia.org.uk Sustainable Business: Leading the Change Sustainable business in 2010 means working with the bigger picture and aligning business goals with social and environmental objectives. The UN mandated UPEACE Centre for Executive Education is visiting London to deliver a workshop on corporate responsibility (CR). [...]

If you are interested in participating in this course please e-mail: hello@idealmedia.org.uk Sustainable Business: Leading the Change Sustainable business in 2010 means working with the bigger picture and aligning business goals with social and environmental objectives. The UN mandated UPEACE Centre for Executive Education is visiting London to deliver a workshop on corporate responsibility (CR). [...]

Panelists: Henning Drager, Head of Sustainability at ACCA and Mark Bromley, Head of Business Performance at EDF Energy

Net Impact London is launching its autumn calendar with an in depth look at a developing business trend that has experienced huge growth: reporting financial performance along with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data together in a single document. There are tremendous cost-saving and efficiency benefits to integrating separate data-gathering processes in this manner.

Panelists: Henning Drager, Head of Sustainability at ACCA and Mark Bromley, Head of Business Performance at EDF Energy

Net Impact London is launching its autumn calendar with an in depth look at a developing business trend that has experienced huge growth: reporting financial performance along with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data together in a single document. There are tremendous cost-saving and efficiency benefits to integrating separate data-gathering processes in this manner.

Adair Turner, the chair of the UK’s Financial Services Authority, memorably expressed the belief that “market economies will not of themselves combine [enterprise] with environmental sustainability or with a reasonably just and good society.” Dramatically he declared that “capitalism needs to be saved from itself.”

Our January 2012 social event was held at a nice old pub on Marylebone High Street where we focused on networking, discussion of hot topics in sustainability, and a sustainability focused pub quiz.  We were glad to see new faces at the event, and the usual mixture of interesting, passionate Net Impact attendees made this night [...]

Thank you all for attending NILP workshop “Creating effective business charity partnerships” led by Tom James from Three Hands, Nadia Al Yafai from White & Case and Laura Westwick, Bromley by Bow Centre. We hope that you found the workshop both informative and inspiring. The discussions on Wednesday last week highlighted some of the challenges people [...]

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is all pervading in our lives. It is the basis for modern day communication, yet consumes copious amounts of fossil fuel energy whilst on the other hand offering enormous potential to be used to encourage and facilitate sustainable development.

The UK Government has just increased its carbon reduction goal from 34 per cent by 2020 to 50 per cent by 2025. The announcement makes the UK the first country in the world to have declared a ‘legally binding’ target on greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020. Just last year though, Cambridge Econometrics predicted that the [...]

Many of you have probably seen the adorable John Lewis commercial of a young boy who is impatient for Christmas morning. He waits and he waits and then on the big day (spoiler alert) he rushes past his gifts and takes a present to his parents. This is really what he has been waiting for [...]

Thank you all for attending NILP workshop “Creating effective business charity partnerships” led by Tom James from Three Hands, Nadia Al Yafai from White & Case and Laura Westwick, Bromley by Bow Centre. We hope that you found the workshop both informative and inspiring. The discussions on Wednesday last week highlighted some of the challenges people [...]