The Ripples Magazine
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Through Ripples, we celebrate our supportive Network of over 1,500 leaders working in communities across the UK. Ripples includes Fellowship news, inspiration and insight from our Network members.
With two editions each year, Spring and Autumn, we focus on themes that reflect our work to encourage leadership, develop entrepreneurial mindsets, and tackle social issues.
The latest edition, published in April 2025, celebrates the diversity in the Rank Network.
Explore all the editions below! We hope you enjoy reading Ripples.
Spring 2025 Edition: Changing Communities
This edition celebrates the diversity in the Rank Network. It highlights the ways different backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences contribute to social cohesion, innovation, and resilience.
With a foreword from our CEO David Sanderson, it features articles from Zulekha Dhala; Aawaz, Ciara Devlin; Breaking Barriers, Paul Smyth; Politics in Action, Cynthia Nchang; Integrate UK, Tim Leese; Welcome Churches, Harriet Vickers and our Director of Education John Hind provides the usual Fellowship update.
Autumn 2024 Edition: A celebration of inclusive and inspiring leadership
This edition explores a theme that is fundamental to resilient and thriving communities: inclusive leadership.
It features stories from leaders in our Network who embody the principles of inclusive leadership, challenge assumptions, prioritise equity, and continuously learn through inclusive action.
Abdul Hai OBE reflects on his lifelong commitment to social justice and economic equality across diverse communities. Emma Pears shares her insights on creating opportunities through leadership that fosters safety and growth. Jen McKevitt explores the strategies behind inclusive leadership’s role in empowering the VCSE sector, while Aimee Thorpe Mundt emphasises the importance of equality and inclusion in creating thriving workplaces.
Spring 2024 Edition: All about enterprise
This edition is all about enterprise!
It features articles from enterprising Network members and a special interview with our outgoing Chair Joey Newton.
Elenid Roberts, Fiona Keir, James Beecher and Varsha Parmer share their Profit for Good stories, Fellows Mariama Techie-Afful, Mark Herbert and Neve Howells-Aitken also share their experience of enterprise, and Ripples editor Alan Qualtrough considers the positive effect the Rank Foundation has had on the social enterprise network and entrepreneurship in Plymouth.
Autumn 2023 Edition: The power of the collective
The rebranded edition of Ripples focuses on the power of the collective.
It features articles about collective working from across our network.
Steve Arnott, Jordan Ignatius and Nadia Alomar share insights on collaborative leadership from personal and professional perspective. Memorial Award Winners, Niamh Mawhinney and Calum Johnston share their incredible journeys and there’s inspiration from Liz Weaver, Co-CEO of Canada’s Tamarack Institute. Their Communities Ending Poverty programme has contributed to poverty being reduced for 1 million Canadians. Plus, some at a glance tips for collaborative leadership on page 28.
Spring 2023 Edition: The cost-of-living crisis
This edition focuses on the cost-of-living crisis.
It features articles about enterprising and innovative responses from leaders across our network. There’s also some inspiration from Canada from our friends at Place Matters and an article about trust-based philanthropy from our resident PhD Janis Petzinger.
You’ll also find a double-page spread of the Foundation’s year in numbers. It quantifies our founder’s vision that each and every pebble can create ripples into towns and communities right across the country.
50th Anniversary Edition
This special 50th-anniversary edition celebrates the legacy of our founder, Lord Rank.
Lord Rank was guided by his Christian faith, a belief in nurturing leadership and supporting young people to achieve their potential.
We hope you enjoy reading 50 stories from people whose lives have changed because he was driven to create this Foundation.
