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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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