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Linklaters has partnered with Pilotlight, the UK’s leading cross-profession pro bono charity, to support the UK’s first social impact programme for climate action. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Workplace volunteering has the potential to boost productivity, improve employees’ wellbeing, and generate billions for the UK economy, according to a new report by Pro Bono Economics (PBE).

Pilotlight is delighted to welcome Nicola Pye to its Board of Trustees.

With World Happiness Day, it's a good time to look at what businesses are doing to pick up the cause of employee wellbeing and there are some surprising results.

Pilotlight has the privilege of working with a diverse and inspiring community of female leaders. To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked Stacey Carr, a Pilotlighter via our Ignite Initiative, to share her leadership journey with us and why she believes investing in your leadership development is so important for women.

"We knew what we wanted to do, but we just didn't know how to start. We now have the building blocks to be able to implement a corporate giving relationship." Gayle Routledge, Founder and CEO, A Child of Mine

In this particular edition, the focus was on making a tangible difference in the lives of LGBTQIA+ communities. Also coinciding with LGBTQIA+ History Month, the event brought together around 50 Pilotlighters from Deloitte to work alongside three impactful Partner Charities: The Love Tank, Just Like Us, and Living Free UK. 

Croydon Mencap supports parent carers of children and young people with any disability aged 0-25 and adults with a learning disability and their parents, carers and families. Services can range from support with mental health, loneliness, isolation and around the barrier that they face when trying to get into work.