Rob Price from Shropshire Council and Cat Duncan-Rees explore how ripping up the rule book when it comes to adult social care could better support people’s wellbeing
Fundraising & Communications Officer Gwenaelle Joubert explains how she persuaded her team at Bipolar Scotland to adopt the pirate ethos and the impact it had.
French Canadian pirates Maurice LeFevre and Olivier Fortier have blended piracy with ‘antifragility’ to support organisations and individuals to navigate uncertainty.
The volunteer sector is typically bound by reams of red tape and bureaucracy, but could volunteer managers start to take more pirate approach?
Dr Franziska Elmer is our very own pirate of the caribbean - a climate pirate building her own crew and challenging norms within the marine biology community.
Artist Bam Douglas explains how Be More Pirate is helping him to succeed in the art world, and shares his agencies pirate code.
Community pioneers Deana Wildgoose and Ian Wilson are using their newly formed community benefit society to reclaim power in Coalville
Like the A team but for organisations, pirates Michelle and James have launched a new crew to make work less terrible.
University lecturer and academic Felicity Healey-Benson has formed a crew across higher education in South Wales to facilitate some positive disruption
Here’s how the team at Nomad food rewrote their rules and discovered that Clarence Birdseye, the original frozen food pioneer, was a rebel at heart.
In 30-50 years the Maldives will likely be underwater and the first nation state is will extinct. Jim Edmondson is rewriting the rules of finance to wage war on climate alongside a global network of surfers.
1 in 4 of us will suffer from mental ill health at some point in our lives, and yet in workplaces up and down the UK it’s a taboo topic. Taboo topics need taboo tactics…
Christine Eade might just be the gold standard for professional rule breaking. If you want to know what public sector piracy looks like, read on.
The Children’s Rights’ International network are taking a stand against how the whole charity sector operates, rewriting every rule in the book.
Robbie Greatrex is disrupting the advertising industry with his new agency Mere Mortals. No paperwork, no hierarchy, no annual appraisals - Robbie is leading by pirate principles alone.
He’s sailed the seas for sixty plus years, taking on dynamite fishing, ocean waste and many many stormy seas. The story of Captain Tonz is a rare glimpse into the life of a genuine real life pirate.
Traidcraft co-founded the Fairtrade Foundation, and helped establish the standards that underpin today’s well-recognised Fairtrade Mark. Here’s how they’re reclaiming their pirate roots at the edges of the map.
Got a tale to tell?
If you’ve challenged the status quo and have an interesting story to tell that could inspire others or, even better, if you have used the book to guide you, then we’d like to hear from about it!
Two NHS workers, tired of the anachronistic and siloed structure of the UK health system, set about imagining a better way for us all to get together and share our talents to make a better alternative.