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Adrian Ashton

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After reading business in Cambridge, I worked with one of the top 100 PR consultancies in the UK before taking on various management roles within a wide variety of social enterprises, community organisations and more 鈥榯raditional鈥� enterprise support bodies. These experiences enabled me to 鈥榯urn around鈥� an ailing specialist social enterprise support agency into a nationally recognised body and gained me recognition as an authority on social enterprises from local, regional and national organisations including the DTI and Bank of England. I have used this position, along with my knowledge of the changing environment ...

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