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Fancy a career in Corporate Responsibility?

January 18, 2019

Kirsty Green-Mann, Head of CR, at Burges Salmon, tells us all about her career journey and experiences in the world of corporate social responsibility. Why did you become an environment/sustainability professional? I’ve been working in the area of Corporate Responsibility / Sustainability for the last 12-years or so. This has been internationally and now with a more local remit as Head of CR for the law firm Burges Salmon. There are a number of things I really enjoy about this…

How do we Empower more Changemakers in 2019?

December 11, 2018

Traci Lewis

It’s been a Good Year! We have had a good year at Catalyse Change, highlights being our summer Catalyst Bootcamp, and new mentoring programme, with professional women who work in sustainability supporting 25 young women on their learning journey. We are now busy making plans for next year, building on the learning from this one. In order to help make this happen – we have just launched a fundraising appeal for our Bursary fund – to provide free places for…

Catalyse Change Winter Newsletter 2018

December 8, 2018

Traci Lewis

So How can we Empower more Changemakers in 2019? Can you Help? We have just launched a fundraiser to provide bursaries for girls and young women, from disadvantaged backgrounds, for our 2019 Catalyst Bootcamp and mentoring programme. To help inspire, empower and skill them as confident, resilient changemakers. For healthy, happy and green careers, communities and planet. Any donation will be a massive help towards enabling us to run this programme again next year. Donations can start from as little as…

The Green Career of a Catalyse Change Mentor

November 9, 2018

Traci Lewis

Sara is a Catalyse Change mentor, supporting a young woman on her journey as a confident, resilient changemaker. We asked Sara about her own Green Career, what motivates her and what she has learnt along the way. Sara Telahoun, Senior Technical Officer – Cities, CDP Provide a brief overview of the path that took you to this job. Following my Master’s in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, I found it very difficult to find a job in the sustainability sector.…

Let’s Start Empowering our Young Women Today

November 3, 2018

Traci Lewis

Article from Sophie Harvey-Rich from Bristol 247 magazine You might have thought that the shockwaves of #MeToo, felt everywhere across the globe, would have led to some kind of concrete government action. Not so. A report by the House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee, published on October 23, showed street harassment of young women to still be very much alive and kicking. Surveys showed a huge 85 per cent of women aged 18-24 have experienced unwanted sexual attention in…

What’s it like to Study Sustainability in Sweden?

October 30, 2018

Traci Lewis

Blog post by Alice Wojcik I left Bristol six weeks ago to move to Sweden and study a masters course in Environmental Communications and Management. After graduating from a journalism degree in July 2017 and working as a reporter for a few months, I decided that I wanted to focus on environmental issues and climate change as these are topics that I am deeply interested in. Sweden is a great place to study the environment because it is a very…

From Zero to Heroes: how two women transformed their green dream into reality

October 5, 2018

Traci Lewis

This month we’re in…Zero Green! Check out Sophie’s latest interview, this time with pioneers of Bristol’s zero-waste movement, Stacey Fordham and Lidia Rueda Losada. Sophie Harvey-Rich is a member of our Young Women’s Advisory Board. Nestled into the welcoming community of North Street in Bedminster, the zero-waste shop of Zero Green was the first of its kind to come to Bristol when it opened in February earlier this year. Six months on, other waste-focussed outlets are popping up – from…

What does it take to be a female CEO in the world of tech?

September 14, 2018

Traci Lewis

Sophie Harvey-Rich – a member of our Young Women’s Advisory Board – met with Dr Zara Nanu of GapSquare – a Bristol-based company leading the way in scrapping the gender pay gap for good. They talk about sexism in the workplace, her own work around it, and the tech industry’s need for a healthy dose of social good. Name: Dr Zara Nanu Job title: CEO of GapSquare Qualifications: MA International Management, PhD Politics Tell us a bit about what…