The inspiration for the charity which Neil Mapes launched with his wife, Lucy Harding, in 2009 goes back a long way. In his childhood he saw the devastating effects that dementia can inflict on people because three of his four grandparents suffered from it – as did one of Lucy’s. It was this experience of... Find out more
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Ideas, as well as people, now move more freely. We have put new models, drawn from other classes and other parts of the world, before the local people, creating new aspirations and new ideas.Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
Family and Kinship in East London, 1957
JOURNEY OF A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR: MALCOLM DEAN PROFILES Mark Williamson
Unlike the four previous features in this series, this fifth profile does not follow the familiar journey of its predecessors: engagement in social enterprise at an early age. And unlike Kevin Davis, Mark Williamson is not juggling multiple balls in the air. His focus is on just the one enterprise, but by far the most... Find out more