Benefits to society

How Common Purpose helps society as a whole

Communities benefit from more - and more diverse - leaders who are energised and engaging in civil society.

"I was able to take all the contacts and knowledge I got from the programme back into my community. Communities across the country are getting more organised. We know knowledge is power. We want to find out how things work and look outwards. We recognise that we are part of a much bigger picture."
Baroness May Blood, Board Member, Greater Shankill Project, Belfast

"Because I went on the programme, I'm much more involved in the city. I joined the Chamber of Commerce, I'm Deputy Chair of the Local Affairs Committee, I'm on the Leeds Architectural Design Initiative. I'm much more conscious of what I and other people have to offer."
Peter Connolly, Managing Director, Yorkshire Design

"This sharing of ideas is essential as leaders today need to have wide experience to be ready to embrace the pace of change that we all face in the 21st century. They must be good listeners to be open minded enough to understand the challenges we all face. Common Purpose has created an important network in Bradford. This helps Bradford particularly in this time of difficult community relations and is probably the only viable way of dealing with our challenges as a city."
Tim Ratcliffe, Partner, Gordon Cranswick solicitors

"Common Purpose is the best network I have ever come across. Not a network in the common career furthering sense but a network of shared interest - working together to tackle and solve common issues and problems. Being involved with Common Purpose has extended the reach and depth of my knowledge in a way nothing else I have ever attempted has managed to."
Genista McIntosh, Executive Director, Royal National Theatre

"Common Purpose offers a timeless benefit. Despite the technological changes that we face almost every day, I am not convinced that leadership in the 21st century is so very different to leadership in even the first century. The principles are very similar - the need to overcome challenges with innovative solutions."
Gary Cunningham, Director of External Relations, Proctor and Gamble