Celebrating Ethical Reading
12th November 2026
Ethical Reading hosted its annual Community Forum and Business Ethics Essay Prize Giving this month.
The Community Forum is a great opportunity to connect with fellow community leaders who are committed to helping Reading thrive and grow. Alongside a keynote speeches by the Mayor of Reading, Councillor Paul Gittings and prizegiving by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, Professor Robert Van der Noort, we attendees celebrated the successes of Ethical Reading and the work of writers in business ethics. This year's winner from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading compared the values and approaches to business ethics in traditional western cultures with those in Asia Pacific and third world countries.
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Ethical Reading celebrated another successful year, having amassed 180 events and engaging over 6000 people since they were founded nearly 10 years ago. Ethical Reading delivers inspiring, educative and collaborative events and activities and its vision is of a Reading where organisations have a deeply rooted sense of ethics and are strongly engaged with the local community.
Nigel Horton-Baker, CEO at REDA, said: "I always look forward to the Community Forum and the opportunity to share views with like-minded people around ethics and sustainability. Ethical Reading is a not-for-profit organisation like REDA and I applaud their enterprise in delivering out on numerous ethical issue projects, including neuro diversity, tree planting, talks in schools, sustainability, ethical recruitment and healthy and ethical workplaces. I would encourage all businesses in Reading to show their ethical stripes and get involved with Ethical Readings activities."
Nigel added “ I would also like to applaud the hard work of Gurpritpal Singh the founder of Ethical Reading who I was proud to support from the start up nearly 10 years ago, through to the present day. Gurprit has built a great team around him but sadly he will be stepping down this year. Thank you, Gurprit, for bringing genuinely fresh and untested ideas to Reading, making ethical thinking part of the economic growth plan for Reading and part of the Reading 2050 Smart and Sustainable City Vision."
