Alongside more traditional charities, a new generation of social purpose organisations has emerged, and the social entrepreneurs behind them are …
#61 THE MINDFUL DESIGNER
Our Innovation Director is showcased in Redjotter’s blog profiling leading designers.
Rebooting relationships
I have been collecting some very short stories over the summer. Here’s a handful: The doctor sits on the bed, …
Chris Holmes, MD of Shift’s Healthy Food Programme, speaking on BBC News
Chris discusses the rise of fast food takeaway shops their effect on obesity.
8 tips for someone new to innovation design
Bethan is a Project Coordinator who joined Shift this year. She has a background in the youth sector (previously working …
3 challenges to embedding a user-centred design approach
Last week I went along to #Design4Charities2018, an event hosted by Uscreates to explore the different ways charities and …
Changing Places Pilot Summary
King’s Cross Story Palace
What is King’s Cross Story Palace? King’s Cross Story Palace is a two year project that tells some of the …
(Re)Introducing the Shift US Team
Since 2011, Shift has had a presence in the United States and has been growing since then. Originally located in …
Shift’s first ever Annual Awards
Here at Shift we have developed a clear idea of how we want to act as an organisation, which we …
Designing for social isolation with BBC Radio Four’s ‘The Fix’
At the end of last week I headed west to the picturesque town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, to record the first …
Shift’s healthier fast food adventure
The story so far… Shift has been working to increase healthier food habits over the last six years. Here we …
Whole Child and Shift: A Dynamic Duo
Whole Child International discuss why they are working with Shift to develop tools and a framework to scale-up their approach to care-giving.
Comparte tu Rollo
Radio show about the Comparte tu Rollo project in Columbia, teaching basic tech skillls by digitizing history of rural libraries.
Unconditional Leadership
David Robinson eloquently and honestly distils 35 years experience of starting and building inspiring local, national and international charities and social enterprises, drawing out lessons on unleashing people’s potential that have application across business and government.
The response to ‘Kony 2012’ has been amazing, but it’s not an example to follow
When the Kony 2012 video first popped up on my Facebook wall and I started to watch it, I only got …
Customer service can change the world
We’ve just started working with Sky on some internal leadership events that they run each year and, once again, my …
‘Tis the season for serious guilt
It’s this time of year that our TVs are overrun with unmissable deals on three piece suites and all inclusive …
The Paralympics: positive or negative incidental effects on inclusion?
Sally Richards is the mother of Jackson West, a young, Canberra-based entrepreneur with a disability, and I was lucky enough …
The Incidental Effect
Hello. This first one is going to be very short, because what it refers to is quite long and I …
Mapping in the 4th dimension TEDxNHH
Nick talks atTEDx NHH, hosted by the Historypin Norwegian School of Economics, in Bergen.
Smithsonian Institution talk on Linked Open Data
Jon Voss addresses the Smithsonian Institute and explores the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world’s libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future.