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Our archive of project updates, articles and opinion pieces by our partners about the Future of Work, Technology and their individual work experiences and passions.
Team Army/Team Ethos celebrate £6m raised for Forces sport!
Over the past seven years, Team Ethos/Team Army has been tirelessly working to enable thousands of soldiers to take part in sport. Today we would like to announce a major milestone as we have now raised over £6m to help the best get better! Maj Gen Lamont Kirkland CBE...
Military Leavers into Construction project celebrates success ahead of Armed Forces Day
Ahead of Armed Forces Day tomorrow, our BuildForce Project Manager, discusses how we are helping ex-military personnel find a future in the construction industry. First published in the CIOB website. BuildForce is an Alliance of construction employers, industry bodies...
Ethos turns over a New Leaf
Ethos has launched a new event planning and delivery company, New Leaf Events, headed up by partners Usha Chadha and Kerry Godley-McAvoy, both members of our successful Team Army/Team Ethos team. With Team Army/Team Ethos now successfully raising over £1M per year in...
Adrenalin-pumping Olympic ice sports growing in popularity
While you may have been watching Forces athletes Lamin Dean and Nick Gleeson competing in Team GB’s 4-man bobsleigh in last month's Winter Olympics in PyeongChang…the Army Ice Championships were taking place in Winterberg, Germany, featuring Skeleton, Luge and...
Building the future for local communities
A major regeneration project in the borough of Lewisham will be completed in 2020 and will result in new and improved schools, public transport, high street facilities, outdoor spaces and walking & cycling routes. Funded by Lewisham Council and the Mayor of...
You’re Hired! How one man crowdfunded his way out of homelessness
In August 2017, Joe, who had been homeless and unemployed for over a decade, made his first step towards changing his life and joined Beam - a social impact business which uses crowdfunding to help homeless people train up and get into work. Joe had worked in...
Delivering more with less – joining the dots in Reading
Within a small geographic area, Reading has some of the most affluent and the most deprived neighbourhoods in the whole of the Thames Valley, and the gap is widening. While a higher than average 76.2% of the large working age population is in employment (compared to a...
Lewisham Construction Hub officially opens
We’re delighted to announce that a dedicated employment hub for Lewisham residents, a partnership between Lewisham Council, Lewisham Southwark College, our construction brokerage BuildLondon and BE Group, is now officially open. Funded by the council and the Mayor of...
BuildLondon announces support for Carillion apprentices & employees
Statement from specialist construction job brokerage partnership BuildLondon The BuildLondon team are conscious of the huge impact the recent announcement that Carillion is going into liquidation will have on a significant number of apprentices, employees and their...
The most significant event since the .COM crash?
Full disclosure - I have some pretty insignificant investments in the coin-o-sphere - please don’t make any investment decisions based on this story!! I’ve been a tech-cum-businessman for about 30 years. More recently (last 7) I’d probably substitute the businessman...
YOU have my permission (aka Annabelle ruined my life!)
I woke last saturday morning before 6.00am as I’m in the habit of doing nowadays. After a great Ethos week I inevitably found my head full of Ethos thoughts and “buzzing” with synthesising feelings (the weekends are much needed time for me in this respect) and...
Making GDPR more interesting
Many of you may have heard of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming out of the EU. Brexit or not, every UK organisation, will need to comply. It’s about personal data and is much wider and deeper than the UK’s existing Data Protection Act (DPA). GDPR will...
Team Army hits £5M mark
Team Army, Ethos’s flagship collaborative fundraising initiative, is celebrating its 6th birthday and a huge milestone, with a staggering £5m distributed to date to Forces' sport. Hundreds of individuals and teams participating in a huge array of diverse sports and...
A Business Philosophy for a Better Internet
In a world where digital and real-life are every more closely entwined, what is a better Internet? Simply put, it’s a place I can go and trust that I can lead a digital life that is as free as my real life is. However our digital freedoms, and consequentially our real...
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