Bring your expertise to People & Planet Week

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9 to 15 November 2026

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Businesses, investors and funders

Businesses, investors and funders can bring expertise, finance, mentoring, networks and routes to scale. Your contribution can help social innovators move from useful conversations towards practical partnerships. You can build the Week into existing investment, sustainability, employee engagement or partnership programmes. Time, expertise, introductions and venues count as much as funding.

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Download the Toolkit

How to start

Choose what you can offer: time, expertise, introductions, a venue or funding.

Match it to an activity below, or join one already planned in your country.

Ideas to get you started

Communicate

Innovator Stories

Use your own channels to feature social innovators, community partners and employees contributing to solutions.

Convene

Investment & Partnership Dialogue

Bring innovators, government and funders together around financing needs and partnership offers.

Co-Create

Social Innovation Challenge

Sponsor or mentor a challenge linked to a public or community priority.

Co-Create

Volunteering Activities

Offer employee time and professional skills to NGOs, social enterprises and community projects.

Connect

Pro Bono Legal Clinic

Law firms and advisers offer free, bookable support to social innovators.

Celebrate

Social Innovation Awards

Sponsor, judge or present awards for innovators, partnerships and community initiatives.

Bring your expertise to People & Planet Week

Ideas to get you started

The people are ready. Are you?

The people are ready.
Are you?