Our new way to search for purposeful work

Issue 861, Sun 13 September, 2026

Dear Escapees,

Helping people find meaningful work has been the whole point of Escape from the beginning. We’ve written manifestos about it, filled inboxes with possibilities and spent a lot of time alongside people trying to make it happen.

So this feels like a big moment. Applications for Escape to Impact are open. It’s a funded online accelerator for experienced people who want to make working on some of the world’s most important problems their day job.

Perhaps you’ve been following an organisation’s work and thinking how much you’d love to be part of it. Then looking at your own background and wondering how on earth you’d get there. Or you know you want to work on these problems, and you’re still trying to figure out where you could do the most good.

We want to work that out with you, and help you make the move. We’ll bring 16 years of Escape learning about what it actually takes to change careers, and connect that with the impact world you’re trying to move into. We’ll look at where your skills could be useful, what a route in might look like, and all the stuff that can make a move like this feel harder than it should. And you’ll be doing it alongside a small group of people trying to make their own version of that move too.

We keep thinking about what people from this first group could go on to do. The problems they could help solve, the people whose lives could be different because of that work. Getting to put our time and energy behind that feels like exactly what Escape is here for.

The first cohort begins on 3rd November. If you’re reading this thinking I’d love to do this, have a look and apply. Who knows what you could help change?

Explore Escape to Impact and apply>

Right then, this week’s Top 10 opportunities.

Happy Escaping!

Team Escape

• Job Title: Head of People and Culture

  Organisation: Client Earth

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• Job Title: Tourism Operations Manager

  Organisation: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

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• Job Title: Social Investment Manager

  Organisation: Bridges Outcomes Partnerships

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• Job Title: STRATEGY DIRECTOR (NYC)

  Organisation: Born Social

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• Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel

  Organisation: The Francis Crick Institute

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• Job Title: Chief of Staff

  Organisation: Omnea

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• Job Title: Head of Operations

  Organisation: SASH

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• Job Title: Mass Participation Events Manager

  Organisation: The Movember Foundation

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• Job Title: Head of Site

  Organisation: Eden Project

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• Job Title: Marketing Lead

  Organisation: Whereby

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