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Nesta. Too many promising social innovations fail to scale, often stalling at the pilot stage. Successful scaling often requires collaborative networks and partnerships that can support long-term growth and impact.

We’re exploring examples of successful strategic partnerships in social innovation as part of our ongoing series on scaling ideas. Drawing insights from our scaling toolkit, the conversation will unpack the practical realities of constructing partnerships across sectors, consider how organisations can shift from isolated efforts to highly integrated partnerships, explore methods for seamless knowledge transfer and discuss strategies for keeping diverse stakeholders aligned around a singular, mission-driven focus.

Whether you are a social innovator, charity leader, funder or policymaker, you will walk away with ideas and tools to apply to your own scaling efforts. The event will be followed by optional networking over drinks.

Bringing churches, charities and civic leaders together for the common good.

Following a powerful inaugural gathering in 2025, the London Summit returns for 2026, bringing together church leaders, charities, civic institutions and community organisations from across the capital. Last year’s Summit highlighted inspiring examples of collaboration already taking place across London, created new connections between sectors and opened important conversations around how churches and civic institutions can work more effectively together 
This Summit is for those who believe collaboration is key to addressing the challenges facing our city. This year we are focusing on the following three areas; Tackling Poverty and Creating Opportunity, Building Resilient Communities, Supporting Children, Young People and Families.

The sixth in Together for the Common Good's Staying Human series, this will address what happened to communities that globalisation has written out of the future - and what it means for churches to find Christ already at work among them.

This series is exploring how to stay human as we live through a change of era. Amidst the unravelling of the old era - cultural confusion, fragmentation and the breakdown of trust – we see the limitations of government, the AI revolution, and we sense deep uncertainty ahead.

Our speaker John Clifton will open up a frank conversation about how globalisation reshaped not just our economy and our politics, but also how we treat people and places.

Drawing on his encounters with anger and grief in deindustrialised communities, and on signs of spiritual hunger in places where institutional Christianity has thinned, John will explore what these places reveal about the deeper moral and spiritual crisis of our time.

This talk is not just diagnosis but primarily constructive: inspired by Franciscan, Salvationist and Catholic Social Teaching traditions, John calls the churches back to proximity - to a way of following Christ that answers abandonment not with charity alone, but with humanising solidarity.