Just a very quick story about a trip that illustrates perfectly the effectiveness of travel as catalyst and support for long-term sustainable development, and in particular the…
As part of our work with Cambridge University’s Social Ventures Incubator, we’ve been introduced to a whole range of things related to social businesses and business with…
Just a quick note with regards to African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), one Africa’s oldest and finest NGOs, and who over the years I’ve kept in fairly regular…
Investing in wildlife: Paul Herbertson bigs up the Rhino Impact Bond
Thursday, 29th August, 2019
It was great to see the Zoological Society of London’s Rhino Impact Bonds work featured in the Financial Times last month. I first came across this initiative…
The Beckwith and Fisher Archive: for the good of the future
Thursday, 22nd August, 2019
While African ceremonies photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s extraordinary careers are by no means at their end, they’re already beginning to think about how best to…
The plight of the Batwa: we talk to Serena Strang, recently returned from Uganda
Friday, 23rd August, 2019
On 24 June, journalist Sophy Roberts posted a video of a group of Batwa children dancing. She wrote: ‘The persuasive innocence of childhood. What this video doesn’t…
Just a quick note highlighting the work of one of this year’s Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship, mPharma, founded by Ghanaian Gregory Rockson. Having swapped a budding…
African Twilight and the fight against cultural extinction
Wednesday, 26th June, 2019
I’ve always believed in the multiplying goodness of serendipity. Stay open to possibility – believe, be brave, expect the unexpected – and good things happen, as it…