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Rob Pye appointed to Skills Advisory Panel for the Coast to Capital LEP
Co-founder and CEO of Ethos Rob Pye has joined the Skills Board of a key Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in the South East. Along with other leaders from local business, education, and government this new Board will provide direction and strategic support for the...
Social Impact Bonds. A step in the right direction?
Someone suggested that I write a brief explanation of social impact bonds before I expand on the main story which looks at how SIBs have the possibility to drive system change. The first paragraph below explains “payments by results”(PBR). The second Social Impact...
BuildForce announces new partnership with The Royal Foundation
BuildForce, set up in 2016 to help the ex-military community into construction careers, is delighted to report they will now be working in partnership with The Royal Foundation, the primary charitable vehicle of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and...
BuildForce celebrates 100th job start
Ethos, project delivery partner, are delighted to announce that the hugely successful ex-forces career transition programme, BuildForce, has placed its 100th job seeker. Nick Channer OBE has taken a position at security and logistics firm Wilson James, a founding...
Interview with Mike Davis-Marks Former Naval Commander and Ethos Partner
High Pressure Decisions Leadership Insights From Four Hundred Feet Under Mike developed leadership skills at an early age in the scouts and went on to a successful naval career in which he commanded submarines four hundred feet under with 120 crew in life or death...
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...
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