Partners

Partners

Who we're collaborating with.

 

A Good Week is a charitable project that's led by social innovation agency A Very Good Company, but is proudly powered by a number of Partners, Supporters and Friends from around the world.

These individuals, organisations and businesses help us to define A Good Week each year, ensuring the celebration can create the largest impact for all involved.

In return, we celebrate and showcase their work and provide a launchpad for those who've come together to support the week.

To changemakers, past, present and future: thank you for continuing to drive the Good movement forward.

Spark+Mettle

Spark+Mettle

Spark+Mettle is an aspirations agency that helps people flourish. They shape, support and accelerate the emerging talents of 16-24 year olds, while conecting them to the people and ideas that can help them kickstart a fulfilling career -- and life.

www.sparkandmettle.org.uk
Twins for Peace

Twins for Peace

Twins for Peace's philosophy is to 'Be Cool, Be Good'. A fashion brand that lives by the 'buy one, give one' concept, Twins for Peace offers the children of the world as many locally-produced pairs of shoes as they sell during the year.

www.twinsforpeace.com
One

One

One create brilliant, quality products, and every time you buy one, they donate 100% of the profit to life-chaning projects in developing countries. Every One product funds a like-for-like equivalent, so it's really easy to understand where your money goes and how to make a difference.

 
www.onedifference.org
Start

Start

Start is a public-facing initiative inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales to help people across the UK lead more sustainable lives. Start work to show us what a more energy efficient, cleaner and healthier future could look like, and what we can do to make it happen.

www.startuk.org
The Good Shopping Guide

The Good Shopping Guide

The Good Shopping Guide is the world's leading ethical shopping reference book. Created by The Ethical Company Organisation, the guide reports and ranks the ethical scores of companies behind hundreds of the world's biggest brands.

www.ethical-company-organisation.org
 Cafedirect

Cafedirect

Passionate about working with smallholder growers, Cafédirect bypasses the conventional market to build long-term, personal relationships with their suppliers. This enables them to bring you great tasting Fairtrade products that are also a force for Good.

www.cafedirect.co.uk
Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise aims to be the most engaging, informative and useful resource for business people who are passionate about changing lives, building communities and nuturing the environment. 

www.socialenterpriselive.com
Action for Happiness

Action for Happiness

Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier society. They want to see a fundamentally different way of life be encouraged, whereby people care less about what they can get for themselves, and more about the happiness of others.

www.actionforhappiness.org
The School Of Life

The School Of Life

The School of Life is a new enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living. Based in a small shop in Central London, they offer a diverse range of programmes and services which explore questions of fulfilment and how to lead a better life.

www.theschooloflife.com
Life Clubs

Life Clubs

Founded by Nina Grunfeld, Life Clubs is a series of practical and structured weekly self-help, personal improvement workshops. They're great for networking and group life, and aim to help you laugh more, love more, play more and earn more.

www.lifeclubs.co.uk
3Space

3Space

3Space is an innovative charity that unlocks the potential of empty commercial property by working with landlords to make spaces available for temporary community use, free of charge.

www.3space.org
FoodCycle

FoodCycle

FoodCycle combines young volunteers, surplus food and unused kitchen spaces to create nutritious meals and positive social change in the community. 

www.foodcycle.org.uk
SOAS Enterprise

SOAS Enterprise

SOAS Enterprise is dedicated to providing training and consultancy services to organisations of all shapes and sizes with the common goal of facilitating knowledge transfer. 

www.soas.ac.uk/enterprise
Vauxhall City Farm

Vauxhall City Farm

Vauxhall City Farm is a little piece of the countryside right in the heart of London with all the sights, smells, sounds and experiences of rural life. Since 1976, they've been providing the local community with education services and a peaceful escape from city life.

www.vauxhallcityfarm.org
BELU

BELU

BELU Water is the most ethical bottled mineral water available. 'Made with mineral water and ethics', BELU is the exclusive bottled water partner of WaterAid and is the first 100% carbon neutral bottled water.

www.belu.org
UnLtd

UnLtd

UnLtd is the UK Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, a charitable organisation set up by seven leading organisations to support and develop the role of social entrepreneurs as a force for positive change.

www.unltd.org.uk
Good for Nothing

Good for Nothing

Good For Nothing is a creative collaboration gig bringing together awesome causes with a collective of thinkers, makers and tinkerers applying their skills to do some good for nothing.

www.goodfornothing.com
vInspired

vInspired

vInspired works to provide opportunities for young people aged 14-25 to do good things and discover the value of volunteering – for themselves and for others. Their mission is to make volunteering diverse, compelling and easy to get involved with.

www.vinspired.com
Who Made Your Pants?

Who Made Your Pants?

Who Made Your Pants? is about two things - amazing pants, and amazing women. Combining end of season fabrics and a nice little factory in Southampton, Who Made Your Pants? creates jobs for women who've had a hard time. 

www.whomadeyourpants.co.uk
Virgin Media Pioneers

Virgin Media Pioneers

If you're starting a business or have a great idea, Virgin Media Pioneers is for you. Learn new skills, share ideas and connect with people on
this video-blogging community for young entrepreneurs. An initiative of Virgin Media.

www.virginmediapioneers.com
BITC: Give & Gain Day

BITC: Give & Gain Day

Managed by Business in the Community, Give & Gain Day is the UK’s only national day of employee volunteering. On the day itself, employees volunteer their expertise and time during work hours to support communities in greatest need.

www.giveandgainday.org.uk
The DoNation

The DoNation

The DoNation is here to make sustainable living fun, social, and mainstream. It’s about doing. It’s about action. It’s about creating a brighter, greener, healthier and more sustainable nation. And it’s about having fun, together. It’s sponsorship, with a twist.

www.thedonation.org.uk
Because Studio

Because Studio

Because Studio is an independent design studio established by Loz Ives, offering a varied range of integrated services including branding, art direction, print and website design. Because are the crafty talent behind the A Good Week brand.

www.becausestudio.co.uk
Browser London

Browser London

Partners of A Good Week and lovers of all Good things, Browser are more than just a digital agency: they're specialists in strategy, innovation and design. 

www.browserlondon.com