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Our staff donated £1,000 each to these charities

Every year, everyone in our team gets to nominate a charity for Platypus to donate £1,000 to. They can also split the donation between two charities. We do this as part of our commitment…
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How fair is your recruitment?

At Platypus, we want to be as fair as possible when recruiting new team members.  We have written previously about our anonymous recruitment process in our efforts to remove some of the bias from…
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The Platypus Digital values and how we created them

What are values? Values for your place of work are the guiding principles that are most important to you and help you make decisions about the way that you work.  Say an organisation had…
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Organisations that can help yours be more anti-racist

In our workshop with JMB Consulting last year, we identified lots of ways we could be a more anti-racist agency.  One of those ways was influencing the charities and other agencies we know and…
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We support Get Home Safe

Like so many others, everyone at Platypus was shocked and saddened by the death of Sarah Everard.  It sparked a difficult but important conversation about women’s safety in our weekly meeting. It was an…
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What we learned from taking the Social CEOs awards event online

Here’s what we learned as we took the awards for the best Charity CEOs on Social Media online in 2020….