OSEP launches POP2020 to celebrate business as a force for good
Organisations from across Oxfordshire are coming together to take part in POP2020: Power of Purpose Week, celebrating business as a force for good.
Business as a Force for Good
B4 One: An interview with Dominic Hare of Blenheim Palace
B4 Interview Dominic Hare about the impact of COVID 19 on Blenheim and how they have found a way to embrace change and make positive steps to go forward
The B Corp Movement – Generating Profit with Purpose with Grant...
Certified B Corps are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit. They are committed to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. This is a community of leaders, driving a global movement of people using businesses as a force for good.
Business for the New World Order with Simon Biltcliffe, of Webmart
How will business be run in a post COVID-19, digital-first world, where people are the most important part of your business because you can scale the disparate talent and the competitive advantage of the talent that you own in the new world order that is coming around.
Opportunities for business to be a force for good with Lizzy...
Business done right is a force for good in our society. Now more than ever, social and environmental responsibility are essential parts of doing business, whether here in the UK or elsewhere in the world.
Positive Steps with Frank Nigriello, Chairman of Oxfordshire Business First
I’ve attended a number of webinars with large numbers of people who are talking about a new imperative for the 21st century.
Spending for Good – Your buying power can make a positive...
OSEP CIC is a Social Enterprise, set up to support purposeful businesses, social enterprises, social entrepreneurs and enterprising charities across Oxfordshire and it is delighted to have partnered with Blenheim under the B4 Nexus programme.
Recovery Strategies: New business ecosystems with a healthy bottom line with...
As businesses build their recovery strategies, Jayne will share Earth Trust’s direct experience of social and environmental challenge and change.
Oxfordshire businesses shine
B4 has been a great window through which to view the continued and growing shift businesses are making to embed more positive social and environmental purpose at the heart of what they do, and I have been proud to support B4 in this direction too.
Blenheim Palace: getting through the tough times
Blenheim Palace has been closed for nearly a month as I write this, except for free entry to the Park for our local community.
Stronger together: Navigating the challenges of local businesses in transition
Ensuring that a limited management and leadership team is optimised to engage with and support a growing workforce is a key aspect to unlocking future potential.
How we stuffed up our crisis response but will now change...
Blenheim’s Dom Hare describes the erratic path taken by a purpose-led business which, while rapidly responding to the unfolding crisis, felt it was still acting like a conventional business, and not a very good one at that.
BIO2020 – a Hopin success!
Over 90 speakers and 400 delegates in three days using a brand new platform …… surely this event had ‘DANGER do not enter’ written all over it?
Owen Mumford’s work in the community with Jarl Severn, Owen Mumford
B4’s Richard Rosser talks to Jarl Severn, Managing Director of Owen Mumford, about the challenges his team faced during the pandemic.
NEXUS Webinar Series with Mark Beard, Richard Venables, Jayne Woodley and...
Join us for the first in a series of NEXUS webinars where we will hear from Mark Beard, Patron of NEXUS and High Sheriff in Nomination for shrieval year commencing April 2022, former High Sheriff, Richard Venables, Jayne Woodley of OCF and Grant Hayward, who is well known to businesses across both organisations and will remain proactively involved in the future development of NEXUS.