"We're just being outplayed when it comes to narratives about all of this. The devil has often had the best tunes..."

Our April 23rd xChange with Sir Jonathon Porritt, CBE, co-founder of Forum for the Future and author of eleven books including Hope in Hell, was both starkly honest and galvanizing.

In our April You're Marketing gathering Tam Hussey, founder of Halo by Design, led a discussion about how marketing can be used effectively to create more sustainable behaviours.

When we think of the word ‘community’ we often imagine a place, but community can also be about coming together around a shared passion.

In our February Coffee with a Cause Lisa Basford, founder of Good Endeavours, led members in working with Jane Green, MBE, founder of SEDSConnective, to help to grow their charity to bring holistic support to neurodivergent people with complex health needs.

In our February xChange Caroline Taylor, OBE, former CMO of IBM Global Markets, interviewed Gemma Butler and Michelle Carvill to explore some of the most high profile environmental and sustainability challenges facing businesses and the most practical solutions from the world of marketing.

In our January xChange Paul Skinner interviews Gaia Vince, award-winning broadcaster, journalist and science writer, to explore how we can migrate our way to a more sustainable future.

In this week’s You’re MarketingKind gathering Charlotte Hollins, manager of Fordhall Farm, shared the amazing story of how she and her brother Ben saved their family farm by making it the first community-owned farm in England.

Last week’s Digital Fireside with Solitaire Townsend was an amazing opportunity to learn from a sustainability trailblazer.

In our final gathering of 2023 we came together to support the well-known charity Pro Bono Economics, which aims to eradicate low wellbeing in the UK.

In our November 28th You're MarketingKind gathering Richard Wain, CEO of Vu Online and founder of the Positive Nature Network, led a discussion on scripting a better tomorrow. He shared with us his recently published book of poetry called Beyond the Brink is the Beginning and the concept of Thrutopia, which has inspired his writing.

1 in 4 women, 1 in 6 men and  3 in 4 transgender and non-binary people will experience an abusive relationship in their lifetime – that’s 2.3 million people in the UK each year.

Over the last few weeks MarketingKind members have been contributing their expertise to support the growth of Let Me Know, a charity helping young people build healthy relationships and prevent sexual abuse and violence.

In Tuesday’s xChange we welcomed the former global CEO of The Body Shop, David Boynton to MarketingKind.

Paul Skinner interviewed David to explore his perspective on The Body Shop's journey and the leadership challenges of growing a purposeful business in a crisis-prone environment.

In our November Digital Fireside with Tom Fishburne, The Marketoonist, we explored how humour can be used to bring people together, to overcome barriers and to hold a mirror up to more accurately reflect and hence be able to better address sensitive or difficult topics.

'77% of CEOs believe that if they are too empathic, they'll be​ perceived as being weak. I would characterise it as entirely the opposite. Being empathic can be a sign of great strength.'

This was one of the many brilliant insights shared by Minter Dial in our You’re MarketingKind on whether AI can help make us more human.

In our October Digital Fireside Rob Harrison-Plastow, CEO of Source Nine Insights, interviewed Dr Simon Western, to explore Eco-Leadership.

In our September Coffee with a Cause with worked with the incredible prevention-oriented charity Let Me Know.

In our September You’re MarketingKind with Marianne Harltey, author of Align & Shine, she led a guided meditation to help us connect to the heart. And from there we explored how we can create brands that align with our ideal clients and customers and drive meaningful change.

In 2021 we worked with the social enterprise TogetherintheUK to help promote their creative writing competition for migrants in the UK.

At the time Teresa Norman, Co-founder of TogetherintheUK, confided that they hoped to some day be able to publish a book of migrant stories.