Graham Bell

Graham Bell – Chief Executive, Kibble

2018 Cohort

Graham is the Chief Executive at Kibble, one of Scotland’s oldest charities now operating as a social enterprise. He joined the organisation in 1993 and has been responsible for adapting it to become a multi-service centre for young people at risk.

He was a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellow and completed the Social Entrepreneurship Programme at INSEAD and Strategy Non-Profit Organisations at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, generated a wealth of fresh approaches.

With over 38 years of national and international experience, encompassing residential child care, youth work and the third sector, he is a former non-executive director of Children in Scotland, CCC Training, Traidcraft plc and Turning Point Scotland.

Alastair Wilson

Alastair Wilson has been the Chief Executive of the School for Social Entrepreneurs since 2003. SSE has grown into a national and international network, supporting over 1,000+ people a year develop the skills, strengths, and networks they need to tackle society’s biggest problems. Alastair is the pioneer of Match Trading designed to support the trading resilience of social enterprises. He is also the co-founder of Tonic Housing, the UK's first LGBT retirement community.
Karen Lowthrop MBE & Nigel Lowthrop

Social entrepreneur couple Karen, chief executive, and Nigel Lowthrop, founder/director, have turned an abandoned woodland into a place for young people to find new skills and opportunities.
Gordon Roddick

Gordon helped found The Body Shop with his wife in 1976 as a one-shop venture in Brighton. Today, 28 years on, The Body Shop is a multi-local business with more than 2000 stores serving over 77 million customers in 53 different markets. As Co-Chairman of The Body Shop, Gordon devoted a great deal of energy towards providing assistance to disadvantaged groups around the world, through the company's programme of Trading with Communities in Need.
Faisal Rahman

Faisel has work in the field of financial exclusion for more than 20 years. Initially with the Grameen and World Bank in Bangladesh, for the last 17 years he focused his work in the UK and Europe. In 2000 he set up the first microcredit program in London’s east end, and in 2005 launched Fair Finance, a social enterprise tackling financial exclusion in the UK.
Marie Marin

Founding Chief Executive of Employers For Childcare – a charity and Social Enterprise established to help parents get into, and stay in work - Marie Marin has over 20 years’ experience as a Social Entrepreneur and is a leading light in the sector, renowned for her passion, vision and drive.