I recently completed the Student Hubs Alumni Survey, which boldly asks: ‘Do you think one person can make a positive impact on the world?’ This...
7 Reasons to Host an Intern Through our Social Impact Internship Scheme
Student Hubs’ Social Impact Internship Scheme places students in socially impactful organisations to carry out an internship for 6-8 weeks over the summer. Here are...
From Fresher to Graduate with Southampton Hub
My first encounter with Southampton Hub was as a fresher at the Bunfight (a local term for Societies Fair). I remember being stopped and asked...
Lessons From my First Year of Work
I started working for Student Hubs last August after graduating from Imperial College London, where I was an active student volunteer. I knew back then...
Where are They Now? Measuring our Long-Term Impact
Last week, I delivered training to this year’s Social Impact Internship Scheme cohort, in which we discussed the importance of quantifying your impact if you’re...
Add Talent and Capacity to Your Organisation This Summer
Have you ever considered taking on an intern at your organisation? Maybe you have a piece of work that is a recurring feature on your...
Our Impact This Term
As we head into spring, here is a round-up of our latest impact and spotlights on some of our local programmes. Grab an Easter egg...
My Social Action Journey
It’s hard to pinpoint precisely where my social action journey began. Perhaps my parents would claim it was as a small child, when I was...
Global Entrepreneurship Week: Highlights from Emerge 2015
It is currently Global Entrepreneurship Week, a celebration of the ideas, leadership and potential of entrepreneurs around the world. It seems fitting that we use...
Students, Sector Leaders and Social Innovation
It’s that time of year again! University terms have kicked off and we’re looking ahead to Emerge on 7-8th November at the University of Oxford’s...
Shaking up Menstruation – the beginning of Monthlies.
I hate getting my period. It’s messy and inconvenient and it hurts! And actually, there are loads of other things I don’t like about it...
How innovative companies such as Storemates and eRated are helping to grow the sharing caring collaborative economy.
Estimates show that the sharing economy could be worth $335bn by 2025 Even the Government wants to get involved in Unlocking the sharing economy and...
The A-Z of social enterprise
One of the things l really love about the work I do is the mentoring of business leaders and social entrepreneurs. I have benefitted so...
Lessons for social entrepreneurs
For those of you who were on Twitter over the weekend, you might have seen the incredible #Emerge14 action coming from the Said Business School...
Talk to me London Day 2014 – let’s break the ultimate taboo and get London talking
Hello! I’m Polly Akhurst and alongside Ann Don Bosco I run Talk to me London, a not-for-profit that seeks to find ways to get people...
Doing business the sustainable way
I work in tourism and I set up social enterprises in all the countries where I send clients. It’s a principle embedded in my company...
