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Chessington,
Surrey KT9 2PE
United Kingdom
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The Moonhill Partnership

Social entrepreneur John Biggs set up the Moonhill Partnership in 1998. Moonhill has been working for ten years helping blue-chip companies around the world contribute to the communities in which they operate, enabling them to do well and do good at the same time.

In addition to working with the corporate sector Moonhill has worked with government and third sector organisations facilitating social entrepreneurial projects in Europe, South East Asia and Australia.

Projects include:

Helping Bass fund a project to support young women victims of domestic violence as part of a £300,000 Community Foundation programme in North East London.

Securing over £500,000 of sponsorship from HSBC and others to produce and tour a play about racism in football to 500 schools around the United Kingdom.

Raising £350,000 to produce a three-day Chinese arts festival for 25,000 people in London Docklands on the occasion of Hong Kong's return to China.

Working with the London Evening Standard and Carphone Warehouse to source 100 mobile phones and 100,000 hours of free airtime to help refugees in Kosovo find missing relatives.

Creating the English Corner project with Cable & Wireless, the British Council and VSO in China to help over one million young disadvantaged Chinese improve their English.

Working with Nokia to set up a network of Thinking Skills Clubs in universities across China supported by roadshows, training programmes, TV & radio broadcasts and a website.

Working with over 150 schools in England empowering educators to deliver a programme of thinking skills promoting an understanding of the brain, creativity and self-awareness as part of the Thinking Corner (www.thinkingcorner.com) programme.

Helping BP to integrate parts of the Thinking Corner programme in to the BP Schools Link programme.

Working in Bangkok with the Social Venture Network (www.geocities.com/svnasia), universities and schools for pupils with special needs encouraging the inclusion of a “whole brain” approach to educational techniques.

Working on behalf of the British Embassy in East Timor supporting a local NGO as they seek empower their workers to use creative approaches to development in a post conflict environment.

Creating and delivering the “School of Dreams” programme for Honda UK (www.schoolofdreams.co.uk) to take their Power of Dreams philosophy into schools around the country and running in house training programmes for their own personnel.

 
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