A word about our mission statement
One of the tasks we set ourselves was to revise our mission statement to be more focused - perhaps even setting out a commitment to a specific social and/or environmental area. The problem we found, however, is that we’re committed to changing the world of business...
Edinburgh’s Just Festival Celebrates 21st Year With Bumper Programme and support from Elephants in Action (ELE Global)
Edinburgh’s social justice and human rights festival is coming of age this summer with its biggest event yet. Among the headline offerings are a poignant new choral work, No Alleluias: A Requiem for 2020, specially commissioned to celebrate the festival’s 21st...
We’ve joined 1% for the Planet
As part of our Giving Back Promise we've joined 1% for the Planet. This means that we have pledged to give at least 1% of our annual sales to approved environmental nonprofits. We can support approved environmental nonprofits by donating the equivalent of 1% of sales...
ELE Global has joined the Better Business Act
Recently, ELE Global joined a very important coalition of like-minded businesses: the Better Business Act is about transforming the way we do business so that every single company in the UK, whether big or small, takes ownership of its social and environmental impact....
ELE Global Certifies as a B Corporation
Tuesday 30th March 2021, Edinburgh UK: ELE Global, the first responsibility-focused strategic communications agency for the legal sector, has announced today its certification as a B Corporation (or B Corp), joining a growing group of companies reinventing business...
Is anyone not talking about Legal Tech and innovation at the moment?
And if everyone is talking about it why are so many firms still slow off the mark? A new report from Whitecap Consulting, however, challenges how we view the use of Legal Tech - with impressive levels of activity and capability across legal service providers, tech...
What will 2021 bring for professional services marketing?
There is a theme going around at the moment, where people wave goodbye to 2020 as if that will miraculously stop the disruption, hurt and challenge of the past year. In many ways people seem to be hoping for a true Christmas miracle, more than ever before. The...
Stress Awareness Week: The little things that help
First published in Training Journal and DE24 News for National Stress Awareness Day 2020. Those of us that choose to run our own businesses know - in an abstract sense - that we’ll have to deal with stress. But today, on National Stress Awareness Day, I’ve been...
National Stress Awareness Day 2020: How to Stop Stress Getting in the Way of Business Growth
First published for National Stress Awareness Day 2020 in SME News. They say that moving house, death and relationship change are the three most stressful experiences you can have. But whomever they are, they haven’t factored in a pandemic and running your own...
Why we’re working to become a B Corp
With brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia and Bulb amongst its members, viewed from the position of an SME, the B Corp community can seem like an exclusive club for big business. Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of...
In 2020, is corporate social responsibility enough? Helen Foord talks us through the “purpose pathway” – Training Journal
For business globally the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything and disruption has been felt by all. This crisis has accentuated social inequality at every level, created economic fears, and changed how we live, whom we support, from whom we purchase, and the kinds...
Supporting the 2020 Just Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe
As a direct result of the C-19 pandemic, almost all of the events planned as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival were cancelled as it was not possible to deliver many of them, whilst maintaining safe social distancing guidelines. The Just Festival, Edinburgh’s...