Archive for October 2025
Rank Ripples – Autumn 2025 Edition
This edition of Ripples magazine explores the three themes at the heart of our 2025 Annual Conference: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Leadership.
Read MoreRipples Story: “Closing equity gap with AI”
In this article, Lucy Jaffé explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be both beneficial and detrimental to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and why it is important for organisations to adopt an equity-centred approach to AI that does not reinforce existing biases against marginalised communities.
Read MoreRipples Story: “Inclusion is a journey”
In this article, Alejandra Arcila Alzate, Office Manager at Greenhill YMCA, reflects on what inclusive leadership really looks like in practice. She explores the importance of self-reflection, vulnerability and courage in leadership, and why these qualities matter so much in the social sector.
Read MoreRipples Story: “Problem to possibility”
In this article, Claudette Dawson challenges how we think about Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), reframing it from a problem to a powerful organisational strength.
Read MoreRipples Story: “AI can amplify human roles”
In this article, Amelia Wrighton, Co-founder and CEO of Suicide&Co, shares how her team are exploring the use of AI to strengthen their work supporting people bereaved by suicide.
Read MoreRipples Story: “AI’s ethical challenges”
In this article, Nina Karwalska, Strategic Operations & Production Manager at Futures in Film CIC, reflects on the ethical challenges AI brings to the social sector, and why a people-first approach must remain central.
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