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Welcome to Virgin Unite

In 2004 we founded the non-profit foundation Virgin Unite to unite people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world. Since then, together with some great partners, we have inspired and incubated a number of wonderful collaborations – like The Elders, Ocean Unite, Carbon War Room (now merged with RMI), The B Team, Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator, Unite BVI, 100% Human at Work and The Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship – which have spurred much needed change in the world.

I now spend the majority of my time working with Virgin Unite to make a positive difference in the world. From supporting projects that I’m passionate about, such as being an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, drug policy reform and giving ex-offenders a second chance to using my voice and that of the Virgin Group to shine a spotlight on issues that I believe are unacceptable, such as climate change and the death penalty.

I am incredibly proud of what Virgin Unite has achieved and thank you for your continued support of Virgin Unite. I truly believe that working together we can turn challenges into opportunities, allowing us to always push boundaries to make business and the world better.

As with all donations to Virgin Unite, your financial support goes a long way. Virgin Unite’s overheads are covered by myself and the Virgin Group, meaning that 100% of all donations received go directly to initiatives we create or support.

Richard Branson

How We Work

RMI, Global Marine Forum, and University College London launched Poseidon Principles, which provides a climate ranking for banks' shipping portfolios, currently worth $100bn.

The B Team led the call for 'Net-Zero by 2050' in 2015 and since then has been joined by other partners like We Mean Business to help it become a rallying call for businesses and countries.

The world’s largest marine protected area at 1.55million km2 came into force in the Ross Sea in the Antarctic, thanks to the work of many committed organisations and individuals, including Ocean Unite.

In partnership with a host of anti-death penalty organisations and Sundog Pictures, we launched a campaign “Death Penalty Fail”, which has reached over 19m people.

We’ve worked closely with Sundog Pictures and the Global Commission on Drug Policy to reach millions of people to focus on addiction as a health issue, rather than criminalise people.

Working with Open for Business, Virgin Unite mobilised a collective of companies and individuals to launch a “Freedom to Love” campaign to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people all over the world and stop criminality linked to who you love.

We worked with WildAid to shine a spotlight on shark fin importing, which resulted in an 80% reduction in Chinese shark fin imports.

With TED, Skoll Foundation and several other partners, we helped to catalyse and incubate The Audacious Project to collectively scale change. We have committed $48.5m and a total of $1bn has been catalysed from the Audacious community.

Over the last decade, we’ve built a community of over 2,000 leaders who have collectively sparked over $35m in investment to frontline organisations.

Over 400 companies have joined the 100% Human at Work network to experiment at putting humanity back at the centre of business.

Our partner One Acre Fund is ending hunger and malnutrition for over 809,000 farm families.

Bhubezi Clinic, a partnership with Anglo Coal, Hugo Templeman and Ulusaba, has served over 350,000 people in rural South Africa, increasing the average lifespan in the community by an estimated five years.

The Rural Transport Network reached over one million people with life-saving healthcare in Kenya.

We supported over 5,000 entrepreneurs through the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and the online global mentorship platform.

Over 60,000 households in Africa will receive clean energy through the funds raised on Energise Africa, an online lending platform for pioneering solar businesses in Africa which we supported to launch, alongside UK Aid and Energy 4 Impact.

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Welcome to Virgin Unite

Richard Branson

Uniting Leaders

Uniting Entrepreneurs

Uniting Voices

Uniting Communities

RMI, Global Marine Forum, and University College London launched Poseidon Principles, which provides a climate ranking for banks' shipping portfolios, currently worth $100bn.

The B Team led the call for 'Net-Zero by 2050' in 2015 and since then has been joined by other partners like We Mean Business to help it become a rallying call for businesses and countries.

The world’s largest marine protected area at 1.55million km2 came into force in the Ross Sea in the Antarctic, thanks to the work of many committed organisations and individuals, including Ocean Unite.

In partnership with a host of anti-death penalty organisations and Sundog Pictures, we launched a campaign “Death Penalty Fail”, which has reached over 19m people.

We’ve worked closely with Sundog Pictures and the Global Commission on Drug Policy to reach millions of people to focus on addiction as a health issue, rather than criminalise people.

Working with Open for Business, Virgin Unite mobilised a collective of companies and individuals to launch a “Freedom to Love” campaign to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people all over the world and stop criminality linked to who you love.

We worked with WildAid to shine a spotlight on shark fin importing, which resulted in an 80% reduction in Chinese shark fin imports.

With TED, Skoll Foundation and several other partners, we helped to catalyse and incubate The Audacious Project to collectively scale change. We have committed $48.5m and a total of $1bn has been catalysed from the Audacious community.

Over the last decade, we’ve built a community of over 2,000 leaders who have collectively sparked over $35m in investment to frontline organisations.

Over 400 companies have joined the 100% Human at Work network to experiment at putting humanity back at the centre of business.

Our partner One Acre Fund is ending hunger and malnutrition for over 809,000 farm families.

Bhubezi Clinic, a partnership with Anglo Coal, Hugo Templeman and Ulusaba, has served over 350,000 people in rural South Africa, increasing the average lifespan in the community by an estimated five years.

The Rural Transport Network reached over one million people with life-saving healthcare in Kenya.

We supported over 5,000 entrepreneurs through the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and the online global mentorship platform.

Over 60,000 households in Africa will receive clean energy through the funds raised on Energise Africa, an online lending platform for pioneering solar businesses in Africa which we supported to launch, alongside UK Aid and Energy 4 Impact.

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Welcome to Virgin Unite

Richard Branson

Uniting Leaders

Uniting Entrepreneurs

Uniting Voices

Uniting Communities

RMI, Global Marine Forum, and University College London launched Poseidon Principles, which provides a climate ranking for banks' shipping portfolios, currently worth $100bn.

The B Team led the call for 'Net-Zero by 2050' in 2015 and since then has been joined by other partners like We Mean Business to help it become a rallying call for businesses and countries.

The world’s largest marine protected area at 1.55million km2 came into force in the Ross Sea in the Antarctic, thanks to the work of many committed organisations and individuals, including Ocean Unite.

In partnership with a host of anti-death penalty organisations and Sundog Pictures, we launched a campaign “Death Penalty Fail”, which has reached over 19m people.

We’ve worked closely with Sundog Pictures and the Global Commission on Drug Policy to reach millions of people to focus on addiction as a health issue, rather than criminalise people.

Working with Open for Business, Virgin Unite mobilised a collective of companies and individuals to launch a “Freedom to Love” campaign to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people all over the world and stop criminality linked to who you love.

We worked with WildAid to shine a spotlight on shark fin importing, which resulted in an 80% reduction in Chinese shark fin imports.

With TED, Skoll Foundation and several other partners, we helped to catalyse and incubate The Audacious Project to collectively scale change. We have committed $48.5m and a total of $1bn has been catalysed from the Audacious community.

Over the last decade, we’ve built a community of over 2,000 leaders who have collectively sparked over $35m in investment to frontline organisations.

Over 400 companies have joined the 100% Human at Work network to experiment at putting humanity back at the centre of business.

Our partner One Acre Fund is ending hunger and malnutrition for over 809,000 farm families.

Bhubezi Clinic, a partnership with Anglo Coal, Hugo Templeman and Ulusaba, has served over 350,000 people in rural South Africa, increasing the average lifespan in the community by an estimated five years.

The Rural Transport Network reached over one million people with life-saving healthcare in Kenya.

We supported over 5,000 entrepreneurs through the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and the online global mentorship platform.

Over 60,000 households in Africa will receive clean energy through the funds raised on Energise Africa, an online lending platform for pioneering solar businesses in Africa which we supported to launch, alongside UK Aid and Energy 4 Impact.

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