Strong council leadership is essential for improving social mobility - here we highlight the pioneering work of four of the Purpose Coalition councils and the positive impact they're making on their local communities.

In a year of political turmoil and economic uncertainty, our higher education sector has continued to play its part in finding the potential in every community, nurturing it to produce graduates who have the skills that employers need and forging local partnerships to encourage investment and entrepreneurship across their regions.

In partnership with former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening, the University of Stirling will produce an impact report that will map its activities against the Purpose Goals framework.

Energy services and solutions company Centrica has launched a Levelling Up Impact Report which assesses its social impact and recommends further steps it can take.

Through our work we’ve seen just what a difference employers can make on driving social mobility - in communities, for their own employees, working through supply chains and procurement and, as the cost of living challenge bites, supporting their customers.

After years in which the problem has received too little focus, it has been important to see both government and opposition pledge to increase growth and productivity by targeting the alarming growth in the number of people who have fallen out of the labour force in recent years.

Loughborough University has partnered with the Purpose Coalition and former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening by signing up to an innovative framework that will measure Loughborough’s social impact.

Glasgow Caledonian University has committed to spreading opportunity by signing up to a new framework to measure its social impact.

The most recent Roadshow was held at Southampton University during Freshers’ Week. Students had a chance to hear speakers from the University and Adecco talk about the importance of purpose in an organisation and how that translated into real action.

Gaming, hospitality and travel company Ambassadeurs Group (AG) has partnered with the Purpose Coalition to measure and enhance its social impact.

Smart energy infrastructure company, SMS plc, has unveiled its Levelling Up Report in Westminster, which assesses how its business – and the energy solutions sector more widely – is making a positive social impact amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

The University of Greenwich is a multi-campus university with bases in Greenwich, Avery Hill and Medway. While each campus has a unique identity, everyone on our campuses has a shared purpose: to create opportunities and change lives for the better.

I cut my political teeth as a new Treasury Minister, part of a team taking over from the outgoing Labour Government in 2010, and finding a now infamous note from our predecessors explaining ‘there’s no money left.’

Demonstrating the art of the possible. That’s the challenge for companies operating in digital and high-tech sectors who need to attract and retain the skilled workforces which will allow them to flourish.

NHS organisations playing a leading role in spreading opportunity across the UK have been celebrated at a new set of awards. The Purpose Health Coalition Awards recognise those NHS organisations and their staff that are committed to boosting opportunity and being truly purpose-led.

“The best employers can connect talent with opportunity by delivering positive destinations for young people..”

Recruitment specialist Pertemps has launched a Levelling Up Impact Report highlighting its social mobility across the country.

The report, developed in partnership with Rt Hon Justine Greening and the Purpose Coalition, sets out best practice and makes recommendations on where further action can be taken.

‘W’ for waiting lists will loom large in Therese Coffey’s to-do list as the new Health Secretary gets her feet under her Whitehall desk.

Reed in Partnership, one of the first employment support service providers in the UK, today launched a Levelling Up Impact Report which assesses how it is currently boosting opportunity across the country and recommends further steps to extend its impact.

I’m not the sort of person to get tongue-tied or star-struck when I meet a celebrity, and during my time in politics I’ve had the chance to meet quite a few. But just over a decade ago, I certainly was on one occasion. It was when I first met the Queen.