This group is for professionals in the London area who work in Corporate Social Responsibility (aka Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Sustainability) and its various forms. Through monthly networking gatherings in a casual setting, we will hopefully get together to listen to a speaker and then share ideas about CSR and network among an informed group. As such we plan to replicate the format of the allied CSR Meetup Groups in Geneva, Amsterdam, New York, and Washington DC …

Welcome to the 7 Graces Global Community - London MeetUp Group. If you don't happen to live in or near London, please join us anyway, because I'll be happy to patch you into our meetings via Skype whenever possible. Please also join our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/7GracesGlobalGarden for continuous dialogue, news and collaboration. OUR VISION... The 7 Graces Project is a social enterprise** whose aim is to embrace the 7 Graces to create, cultivate and grow new paradigms of …

In a highly volatile and uncertain economy, maintaining a strong career path can be tricky and mentally strenuous. You are not alone - many ambitious, motivated and successful professionals are facing exactly the same challenge. - Are you feeling insecure about your job in this economy? - Do you feel there are limited job prospects in this market? - Have you already lost your job and/or are looking for a new job? - Feeling a bit deflated with your career? - Do you want more challenge, responsib …

This meetup is for you to enjoy sales-free conversations with your counterparts from other organisations, to hear about innovative initiatives and to learn from the experience of others. It is a great way for you to avoid re-inventing the wheel, as other fellow professionals may well have already confronted issues currently challenging you. We plan for the meetups to be at lunchtime and/or early evening, in a convenient and informal space in Central London. There are three separate peer circles …

Do you want to positively impact a billion people in one decade? Are you inspired by the power of exponential technologies? Singularity University was founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil "to prepare humanity for accelerating technological change." This meetup is organised by SingularityU alumni and is open to anyone interested in using technology to help solve humanity's global grand challenges. Events starting in London 2013, possibly extending to other cities in future. Come and join u …

The 'reactivity series' is an old joke with a best friend to relate to the experience of our emotional buttons being pushed and thus the lack of control we have over our responses or reactivity to events in our environment. This group has but one implacable aim... To make its members as emotionally sensitive as facilitates our goals and positive life experience. If that means you get shouted out.. so be it. If that means you must approach strangers in a bar... so be it. The only rule of The Conq …

The BIG Sing Community Choir is working hard to meet the challenge to show the communities in Essex, London and Kent that together we really can Sing! The Witham Carnival in Essex, helped birth the challenge by giving us the stage at the carnival on the 9th July 2011. We had 6 weeks to put a choir together from the Witham community! Gemma Rattenbury, who headed up the project, said “The response to Witham’s BIG Sing was amazing. In just six weeks we had 45 singers! BBC Essex Radio followed our p …

The BIG Sing Community Choir is working hard to meet the challenge to show the communities in Essex, London and Kent that together we really can Sing! The Witham Carnival in Essex, helped birth the challenge by giving us the stage at the carnival on the 9th July 2011. We had 6 weeks to put a choir together from the Witham community! Gemma Rattenbury, who headed up the project, said “The response to Witham’s BIG Sing was amazing. In just six weeks we had 45 singers! BBC Essex Radio followed our p …

At its heart, CSR means that a company should behave in a responsible and beneficial way towards all those on whom its activities have an impact: these may include the society and community in which it is located, its workforce, its supply chain and customers, and the wider environment. Companies often focus upon their community, giving monetary and practical aid to charitable causes (corporate philanthropy) or on environmental sustainability. However it could be argued that CSR also extends to …