The week before last I was lucky enough to see Trevor Baylis speak at the Social Entrepreneur Show at Olympia. He was, for me, the epitome of both an inventor and innovator. White-mustachioed, gesticulating wildly, and quoting himself on successive power-point slides, it seemed as if he had just, after several years, burst out of […]
Kate Atkinson
Overview
Kate Atkinson is a social entrepreneur who establishes and supports small social enterprises. Her first company, Spruce Carpets, refurbished used carpets and supplied them onto people making the transition from homelessness to independent living in Glasgow. The company also ran a volunteer programme for people who had recently resettled and a training course in carpet fitting for excluded young people. Kate has since set up an environmental SME and recently completed a course in volunteer youth work.
