By Dave Hanney, Director at Skating Panda and Jana Potgieter, Growth and Investment Manager at Charities Aid Foundation Skating Panda and Charities Aid Foundation have joined forces to share a series of four articles to help businesses understand the why, what, and how of becoming purpose-led There...
By Dave Hanney We’re currently experiencing what a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world can be like, in an unprecedented way. It comes at a time when so many businesses have been uncovering, articulating and publishing their purpose. We were chatting with the team at Blueprint for...
By Natalie McCallum, Media and Communications Manager Three weeks into starting a new job - and returning to “paid work” - and the world has turned upside down. Coronavirus broke out and within a week our au pair had returned to her home country. But that...
'Business purpose beyond profit’ is a bandwagon in danger of collapsing. It’s no longer voices on the fringe, but the mainstay of capitalism that’s calling for change. Especially after the FT and Economist nailed their colours to their mastheads. When opinions swing swiftly, reality gets distorted. The voices of the critical experts become even more important...
By David Willans, Director It was only last week that I was talking about ‘How can we finally achieve global gender equality?’, a Tortoise Media event. The event talked about the need for strong action. Talk of strikes to highlight the amount of unpaid labour women do....
The Global Goals. The 17 Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals. SDGs. No matter what you refer to them as the facts are: Sustainable Development Goals logo They were created in 2015 Ratified by 193 countries There is a 2030 deadline to achieve them To quote the United Nations, these...
There’s a bit of chat and it’s getting louder about what it really means to be British isn’t there? Maybe it’s because we’ve committed to and actually now started to leave the EU, just maybe… Listening to the radio on January 31st 2020, the day of...
Last year Skating Panda was invited to speak at the opening plenary of the Charity Finance Group’s Risk Conference. The focus of the conference was risk and our session was called ‘Risk Horizon Scanning’. There was a wonderful irony in being given such a brief as we had just...
With ten years left until the deadline for accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), hope that 2020 will be the year of action – to kick start a decade for delivery. ...
Everyone’s talking about purpose. And it’s not always good news: “the new greenwashy buzzword” or “the preachy new CEO buzzword” or again “the empty buzzword”. And so on and so forth. An early adopter, Skating Panda has spent the last 10 years focusing on increasing social impact, solving global...