BIG Alliance partnered with Macquarie Group and their summer interns for a second year to offer solutions to strategic challenges put forward by Islington's community organisations.

In July, teams of Macquarie Group employees and summer interns supported five Islington community organisations with their strategic challenges. Find out more about the programme and read our Evaluation report here.

BIG Alliance is excited to pilot a new digital buddies programme designed to support members of Hillside Clubhouse with basic digital skills. Hillside Clubhouse is an Islington-based mental health rehabilitation project with a focus on mainstream employment, education and social inclusion.

Last month we launched the 13th cohort of our annual CoRe programme. Find out more about it here.

As part of our skills-based volunteering offer, BIG Alliance recently moderated a pro bono consulting sprint (half day session) with two teams of volunteers from Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets team where they were given just a few hours to come up with the best solutions possible to a challenge set by Choices London CIC, our participating community partner.

In support of MUFG’s Laureus Sport for Good partnership, BIG Alliance recently helped deliver a series of communications workshops for Fight for Peace, a London-based programme supported by Laureus.