Andrew Mawson Partnerships - Building communities

ANDREW’S SPEAKING

19 July 2011

Andrew is a charismatic and inspiring speaker who believes passionately in the ability of the individual to affect real change. His speeches are punctuated with practical stories from his transformational work across the UK and personal anecdotes which are often highly entertaining.

Andrew is a popular speaker who has appeared in a wide variety of venues in many different countries and contexts. He is adept at offering unique and personal insight whether speaking to 3000 people in Melbourne or leading a business master-class of a dozen people.

He is available to speak at lectures, after dinner speeches, training events and group work.

Click on the themes to the right to learn more about the topics that Andrew is often asked to speak on and to read feeback on his past speaking engagements.

BOOKS

19 July 2011

The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
By Andrew Mawson

When Andrew Mawson arrived in Bromley-by-Bow in the east end of London, in the 1980s, it was in a state of social, economic and material disrepair. Living there, getting to know the residents and institutions, he soon realized that by unlocking its untapped potential, the community could begin to turn itself around. The result: the Bromley-by-Bow Centre has encouraged literacy, housing, business, health, welfare and enterprise in the area to flourish. Time and again using the same approach, Mawson has succeeded where the government and others have failed. His inspiring and timely book will demonstrate, through his own experience how, by seeking creative, dynamic, entrepreneurial ways of tackling seemingly intractable social problems, we can all make real changes in our communities.

“The Richard Branson of the Social Sector” – Libby Purves

“Buy this book, even if you think it’s not relevant for you in your life” – Tim Smit, Founder of the Eden Project

“Andrew Mawson is social justice in motion. A hard hitting, tough-talking gentle doer of big business change. This book is essential if you want a future” – John Bird, Founder of The Big Issue

£12.99 + Postage and Packing

Comments:

Let me congratulate you for your incredible work and for the excellent book you have written.

Reading it has been a pleasure and a truly inspirational experience.

It is greatly rewarding to know that other people have managed to achieve so much with so little (I could not help grinning when I read that you started off with £400 in your church’s bank account).

Jorge Fernandez Vidal at 8:29pm 18th March, 2010

I felt compelled to write to you after reading your inspirational book, The Social Entrepreneur. It spoke to me on so many levels and made me want to grab my own part of the world and shake it into a new era, exactly as you have managed to do with yours.

Ali Golds, Operation Enterprise Ltd at 15:55pm 27 July, 2011