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Oldham, United Kingdom United Kingdom
Occupation
Enterprise Insight, Development & Encouragement - http://about.me/adrianashton
Industry
Apparel / Fashion
Website
www.adrianashton.co.uk
About
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 ‘traditional’ enterprise support bodies.
These experiences enabled me to ‘turn around’ 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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