Fellow's Profile
Jessica Mellor-Clark
Fellow's Profile
Jessica Mellor-Clark
Companies That Care: Business as a Force for Civic Resilience
Fellowship
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Exploring how and why businesses sustain commitments to communities and place in times of pressure.
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- Fellowship year
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2026
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Biography
ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is now standard corporate language. Yet when times get hard, commitments to communities are often the first thing to go. My Fellowship asks why some companies hold firm and what others can learn from them.
I have spent 25 years designing structures that make social commitments stick across business, government and communities. For a decade I led BeOnsite, Lendlease's award-winning not-for-profit, delivering £38m in verified social value, changing employer behaviour at scale and shaping employment policy. I now lead Waverley Associates, helping organisations make commitments structural, not cosmetic. I chair the MoJ Employment Advisory Board at HMP Featherstone.
Some companies hold their commitments through economic pressure, political upheaval and crisis, not because of individual heroism, but because of how they are built. My Fellowship takes me to Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand to understand how. I want to bring those lessons home: a practical framework for UK businesses and guidance for government on supporting companies that are in it for the long term. Caring is not a moral luxury, but how you build a company that lasts, and a community that holds.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
