A management buy-out sees Amanda Powell-Smith becoming MD and Peter Gilheany PR Director, as Jilly Forster takes the role of Chair. Forster will be a company owned by staff offering a re-energised and strengthened service offering to clients. read more

Email, texting, tweeting, linking in and facebooking – none of this is really ‘talking’. In the business world, we can pride ourselves that we’re more connected than ever. Yet the underlying message we often send to people through these media is, ‘I don’t really want to talk to you, but…’

Jilly Forster notes how Google’s Global Impact Challenge shows how commercial organisations can demonstrate their social value and gives some tips on how they can make, retain and develop good working partnerships with non-profits who eat, live and breath social purpose