Changemakers: Cape to Cairo
By Rob Wilson, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Changemakers: Cape to Cairo
Driving social and environmental change through entrepreneurial approaches to changemaking
2011
South East
I am the Chief Toaster (co-founder and CEO) at Toast Ale, the delicious planet-saving beer brewed using yesterday's bread from bakeries to fight food waste. All profits are poured into environmental charities.
Prior to Toast I led Ashoka (a global support network for social entrepreneurs) in the UK and I founded a number of social mission ventures over the years. This included setting up READ International in 2004 (a Tanzanian student volunteer-led development organisation which has benefited millions of Tanzanian school students) and co-founding Generation Change in 2012, helping 600,000 young people a year in the UK take positive action in their local communities. In 2011, with my wife Nikki, I co-authored On the Up, a book about social entrepreneurs in Africa. This book was the culmination of the joint Fellowship that Nikki and I received.
We live in Kent with our three very cheeky kids Thomas, Matthew and Jessica. In my spare time I coach my son's football team and run to try to burn off the beers. I am a geek for all things social enterprise and never miss Formula One.
By Rob Wilson, 2021
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By Rob Wilson, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.