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Ensuring sustainability for Hijinx

20 June 2024

Hijinx is a theatre company pioneering, producing and promoting opportunities for actors with learning disabilities and/or autism productions across Wales.

​​Pilotlight seeks new Chair of its trustee board​

12 June 2024

We are excited to announce that we are searching for a new Chair of our Board of Trustees. This pivotal role will help continue to build Pilotlight's ongoing mission to facilitate and promote the sharing of professional skills to help charities help people most effectively.

24 charities receive awards to tackle social and environmental challenges

3 June 2024

A group of 24 frontline charities working in the fields of Community, Environment, Welfare and Youth have been named winners of the Weston Charity Awards. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Awards recognise and boost the vital work of charities across the UK, amplifying their impact and fuelling long-term resilience in the face of growing social and environmental risks. 

The purpose paradox: How volunteering boosts productivity

Nicola Pye | 23 May 2024

Improving productivity growth is the decades old dilemma for UK business. Throughout my whole career, which I’ll be honest dates back to typewriters on desks, it seems that we’ve been trying to crack the code on how to increase work outputs.

The unexpected solution to workplace absenteeism

Ed Mayo | 14 May 2024

Reasons for absenteeism can range from mental health concerns to workplace stress and dissatisfaction. When Illness forces employees to take time off, disrupting workflows, and impacting productivity, these can be costly problems for businesses.

A win-win for wellbeing​

Tom Leavesley-Matthews | 2 May 2024

After a period of testing and development, Pilotlight Impact Day was born. Rather than focus on open questions of strategy, funding and governance for charities, the time was structured into small teams focusing on precise challenges, carefully prepared in advance, that were critical to the life of the charity.