NS Labour Party Conference 2025

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1PointFive is a Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) company that is working to help curb global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2050 through the deployment of decarbonization solutions, including Carbon Engineering’s Direct Air Capture and AIR TO FUELS™ solutions alongside geologic sequestration hubs. Visit 1PointFive.com for more information.

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Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. In the UK we are the leading health insurer, providing cover to over 3million people, a large social care provider with 121 care homes caring for over 6,000 residents, and one of the largest dental providers, with 390 dental practices across the UK. We provide quality dental care to over 2 million patients, including around 1.3 million NHS patients.

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Babcock is a FTSE-listed international aerospace, defence and security company with a leading naval business, headquartered in London. As the second largest supplier to the Ministry of Defence, Babcock specialises in providing critical, complex engineering services, both in the UK and internationally. In addition to a range of critical programmes across the Aviation, Land, Nuclear and Marine sectors, Babcock is currently building the Royal Navy’s next generation Type 31 frigate at its Rosyth facility and has exported the Arrowhead 140 variant design to Poland and Indonesia.

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CAGE is a research centre based in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. We conduct independent policy-driven research informed by history, culture and behaviour. Our aim is to move beyond traditional measures of economic success to consider broader influences on global prosperity: from cultural and behavioural attitudes to voter preferences and political institutions. We analyse historical and contemporary data to draw out lessons for modern policy. CAGE is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

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To learn more , please visit our website - https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/

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The CIPD has been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. It helps organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. It’s the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With almost 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using its research, insights and learning – it gives trusted advice and offers independent thought leadership. It’s a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

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The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) works with business and education to inspire people to unleash their potential and become skilled, confident and successful managers and leaders. CMI has more than 130,000 people training to be better managers right now. Backed by a unique Royal Charter, CMI is the only organisation allowed to award Chartered Manager status – the ultimate management accolade, and Chartered Management Consultant status which sets and maintains the highest standards for the management consulting profession. CMI’s thought leadership, research and online resources provide practical insight on critical issues for 170,000 membership community and anyone looking to improve their skills, nurture high-performing teams and help pave the way for the next generation of managers and leaders.

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Future of gas

The UK has a target to be net zero by 2050. That means reducing harmful CO2emissions by 100%. Those emissions come from burning fossil fuels like coal, diesel and fossil gas – to power our industries, run our cars and lorries and heat our homes and businesses. We have to find new ways – greener ways – to do these things.

Home heating

Over one third of CO2 emissions come from heating our homes and offices so decarbonising heat is a major issue for the UK to address. We are working on ways to achieve this and believe that the best way to keep customers warm whilst enjoying the flexibility of gas with minimum disruption, is to use the existing network to deliver greener gases like biomethane and hydrogen. They work just as well as fossil gas but without the CO2emissions, in fact hydrogen produces zero emissions.

We fully support renewable electricity from wind and solar to meet lots of the country’s energy needs but it is now well understood that if we are to reach 100% carbon reduction, hydrogen will be essential to heat our homes, fuel heavy transport and power industries.

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To learn more , please visit our website - https://cadentgas.com/

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Our heritage

We were established to make a real difference.
Over 100 years ago Joseph Rowntree created us to provide housing in communities and to understand the root causes of social problems.
We will always be driven by our founder’s vision and are constantly working out what this means for our work in the present day.

Joseph Rowntree was a visionary Quaker businessman and social reformer. He built New Earswick, a village in York, for people on low incomes, including staff who worked in his factory, giving them access to decent homes at affordable rents. He was committed to understanding the causes of poverty and disadvantage in order to create a better society. His son, Seebohm Rowntree, was a pioneering social researcher who undertook one of the country’s first investigations into poverty.

The origins of our financial resources lie in a major donation of shares in the original Rowntree Company gifted to us by Joseph Rowntree in 1904. A review in 2020 of publicly available sources regarding the company’s historic global supply chains revealed deeply disturbing practices and evidence that the firm benefited from slavery and forced labour. As former shareholders in the firm we have issued an apology for the deep and enduring harms caused by these shameful practices and are supporting further research into this part of our history.

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To learn more , please visit our website - https://www.jrf.org.uk/

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Kingston University London is an ambitious institution with a growing international reputation founded on its innovative model of Future Skills education, which it has been embedding across its undergraduate curriculum. From September 2025, every undergraduate at Kingston University will complete its sector-leading Future Skills programme as a core taught and assessed part of their degree studies alongside subject-specific learning.

The Future Skills campaign is backed by global businesses and has attracted widespread support from parliamentarians, peers and policy makers. Building on three previous reports in partnership with YouGov, the 2025 report, Future Skills: Perspectives from East and West, sampled 2,000 leading UK businesses to identify the skills most valued by industry in a rapidly changing workplace.

This research has informed the Future Skills programme that enables every student on every undergraduate programme to acquire the key graduate attributes employers need including critical thinking, digital and analytical skills, creativity and initiative.

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To learn more , please visit our website - Kingston University Future Skills Report 2025 | Kingston University London

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At L&Q we believe passionately that people’s health, security and happiness depend on where they live.

We house around 280,000 people in more than 118,000 homes nationwide – but we’re more than just a registered charitable housing association.

Our vision is that everyone deserves a quality home that provides them with the opportunity to live a better life.

This echoes our purpose to provide homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of. We will do this by delivering safe, high quality homes, services and support for all of our residents.

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To learn more , please visit our website - https://www.lqgroup.org.uk/

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In 2009, OVO was born to make energy better for people and the planet. Today, OVO is trusted by around four million customers with their home energy, EV charging, green tech upgrades, and more.

OVO is getting the UK ready for a greener, fairer future – planting one million trees a year and supporting new renewable power projects in communities across the country. Not only is OVO bringing low carbon tech into homes, it’s finding smart ways to cut costs for customers – making heat pumps, solar panels, and electric cars more accessible. Behind all this work is Plan Zero: the bold, science-backed sustainability strategy, which sets out how OVO will become a true net zero business by 2035.

This progress can only happen with a culture fit for the future. OVO’s multiple awards include the Best Place to Work for Women in The Sunday Times’ Best Places to Work 2023, which also saw the company coming in the Top 10 for Very Big Organisation.

OVO also won Company of the Decade at the BusinessGreen Leaders’ Awards 2020.

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SGN owns and operates the gas distribution network in Scotland and the south of England and performs an essential 24/7 service for our communities by keeping everyone safe and warm. Yet as the world around us is changing, people and businesses will need to act differently to make sure everyone has secure, affordable and clean energy. Our stewardship of critical national infrastructure and a highly skilled workforce, puts the company in a strong position to support the transition to net zero. As an authentic leader in whole systems thinking, SGN will champion an integrated energy mix that works for customer and country.

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TheCityUK is the industry-led body representing UK-based financial and related professional services. We champion and support the success of the ecosystem, and thereby our members, promoting policies in the UK, across Europe and internationally that drive competitiveness, support job creation and ensure long-term economic growth. The industry contributes over 10% of the UK’s total economic output and employs more than 2.3 million people, with two thirds of these jobs outside London. It is the largest tax payer, the biggest exporting industry and generates a trade surplus exceeding that of all other net exporting industries combined. It also makes a real difference to people in their daily lives, helping them save for the future, buy a home, invest in a business and protect and manage risk.

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The Trussell Trust supports a network of more than 1,300 local food bank centres across the UK, providing practical support for people who don’t have enough money for the things we all need in life. We believe that it’s not right that anyone needs a food bank in the first place – and that we can change this by ensuring everyone has enough income for the essentials. That’s why we also work with communities across the UK to change the things that are leaving people without enough money for the essentials, bringing together experiences, data, insight and evidence from food banks and the people who need them across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Together with thousands of volunteers and people who have used food banks across the UK, we share what we know to push for the changes that will ensure all of us have enough money to cover the essentials.

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‘UK in a Changing Europe is a UK-winde network for academics and reasearchers coordinates from King’s College London. We promote high-quality and independent social research on the broad theme of Brexit and its consequences.

Our work includes politics and society, economics, law, governance and the constitution, the UK in the world, and UK-EU relations. We present research findings through events, workshops, debates, talks, briefing papers, reports, blogs, social media and via the press. Our work is tailored to be easily accessible to policy maker, businesses, journalists, civil society organisations, educational institutions and the general public.’

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