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The Grub Club was founded by Aisling Kirwan. The programme combines Aisling’s love of cooking with her eagerness to see every child succeed. As a teacher, Aisling experienced the significant and immediate effect that bad diets have on students’ ability to succeed, …

Sonia Shaljean is the Founder of Lads Need Dads C.I.C. LADS NEED DADS provides male-led group mentoring, bush-craft survival and life-skill training to boys age 11-15 who have been identified as at risk of exclusion, offending, under achieving or dropping out of …

Shackleton Newsletter 2016

Shackleton Foundation Trustee 2007 – 2014Shackleton Foundation Ambassador 2014 – 2016Henry and I have known each other since 1970 and so it is with deep personal sadness that I must announce his death (Sunday 24 January).Henry was 71 days into a 1150 …

Jasper Kain founded Football Beyond Borders with a group of friends at the University of London. Having played for Chelsea and Gillingham youth, he had aspirations like so many other teenagers of becoming a professional footballer. He was released at the age …

Jacqueline Williamson is the Founder and Chief Executive of Kinship Care Northern Ireland – an award winning charity which supports children who cannot be cared for by their own parents to live safely and securely within their own families and communities.The organisation …