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.
Responsible Business
Businesses have a responsibility to their communities, to be supportive and at the very least not actively cause harm. Here you will find content relating to businesses being a Force for Good, supporting charities and their local communities.
Best Practice Guide to Open and Inclusive Recruitment
A step-by-step guide for Oxfordshire employers to unlock potential through diverse recruitment. This guide is designed to support you to adapt your organisation’s recruitment practices in order to access talented and motivated candidates from disadvantaged groups – to help you reach the widest possible pool of talent. These include ex-offenders; young people who are ‘NEET’ […]
Best Practice Guide to Long-Term Charity Partnerships
Whilst many businesses support charities on an occasional basis or via a ‘Charity of the Year’ initiative, some choose to build deeper and more permanent relationships with a particular cause. When done well, this partnering can see a business involved in a charity’s strategic direction, sharing skills, knowledge and networks on an ongoing basis.
Call for Oxford companies to prepare for cancer crisis
Unipart, the leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy group based in Cowley, is helping to support one of Oxford’s major cancer charities before another health crisis.
Building Back Faster, Greener, Fairer with Peter Holbrook, of Social Enterprise...
What is the relationship between business and society? Are profit-maximising models any longer compatible with our post-Covid world? Climate chaos, population growth, growing inequality, habitat loss, political instability continue to threaten us with even greater likely consequences than COVID19.
What I have learnt about Oxfordshire with Jayne Woodley of Oxfordshire...
What I have learnt about Oxfordshire with Jayne Woodley of Oxfordshire Community Foundation
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.
Best Practice Guide to Charity of the Year Initiatives
About Charity of the Year initiatives are popular with businesses wanting to back different causes regularly. The business typically chooses a different charity to support each year, offering staff volunteering time, sponsorship and fundraising support. But how do businesses know they are providing the help that charities really need? This guide looks at how your […]
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?
What it means to run a business in uncertain times with...
Charly Cox is the Founder of the Climate Change Coaches, who help people to change their mindsets so that they can get into action in the face of big existential crises.
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.
Long-term hope for homeless in Oxford in response to Covid-19
Two projects, supported by funds raised through Oxford Homeless Movement, are aiming to help homeless and vulnerably housed people transition successfully from emergency Covid-19 accommodation to an independent life in their own self-supported housing.