Ethos was founded in 1999 to explore flat and networked-structured organisations. After some brief pauses back to the corporate world (2002 Capita to Thales 2010) I returned as co-founder of Ethos along with Annabelle and Tony.

For nearly 15 years we have been finding ways to support social-entrepreneurs to develop sustainable organisations which foster people and planet wellbeing. We’ve largely done this by providing a stipend/basic income and a shared “work” platform.

Some of the more famous ones include https://teamarmy.org https://teampolice.org https://www.wildersensing.com https://www.ethosvo.org/category/young-leaders/ as well as Skillsplanner, Building Pathways, BuildLondon, Noggin, Bayline, Open Data parking and many more.

From 2024, we decided to focus exclusively on building a global ecosystem of community projects to scale this basic income approach via private wealth holders who realise that a sustainable future of work, the future of the planet and our natural environment will not come about by scaling what we have done in the past and expecting a different result.

This project and my life’s passion is called The Commons Fund.

A sustainable future is hiding in plain sight. We just need to open our eyes!