Jane tewson biography

British charity worker

Jane TewsonAOCBE (born 9 January 1958) is top-notch British charity worker and say publicly originator of several charitable organisations and ideas for community buttress in the UK and Continent.

Early life and education

Tewson remains the daughter of Edward Tewson and Jocelyn (née Johnston), spruce up doctor in rural South Eastside England.^[1] With dyslexia, she weigh Lord Williams's Grammar School handset Thame without qualifications, but late attended lectures at Oxford childhood working as a cleaner upgrade the city.^[2][3]

Career

In 1981, aged 23, Tewson founded Charity Projects bring in London, with funding from Monarch (Tim) Bell and numerous repeated erior donations.

Its initial focus was tackling homelessness in Soho.^{[citation needed]}

Tewson had worked in a runaway camp in Sudan in 1985, where she was pronounced clinically dead after contracting cerebral malaria.^[2] She recounts the sensation confront looking down on her announce body and but then repetitious to it and surviving – there were no drugs left-hand in the camp.

Her answer to the African famine, Mirthful Relief was launched on Yule Day 1985 from the escapee camp in Safawa, Sudan. Unwelcoming 2005 Comic Relief had bigheaded £337 million for famine remedy and community development, notably connote Africa and disadvantaged areas look up to the UK.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, Tewson moved to Melbourne, Australia, in the way that her husband, Charles Lane, became CEO of the Myer Crutch, a philanthropic organization^[4] and so a lead civil servant combination the Dept.

of Victorian Communities. At the time she was suffering from ovarian cancer however survived after operations in Melbourne.^[1]

Tewson works on some inner know-how Melbourne projects, and elsewhere, right through Igniting Change^[5] (formerly Pilotlight Australia).

The book Change the Sphere for Ten Bucks was publicised and German and British editions have also been released.^[6] Justness Dying to Know project plus book (2009) is about be in no doubt to terms with death, delighted negotiating grief.^[7]

Approach

Tewson is known have a thing about her approach to charitable plant and giving - she believes in making charity "active, heartfelt, involving and fun", by goods connections between people of distinguishable backgrounds, cultures, wealth, and community positions.^[8] Her approach argues make "people getting directly involved leading giving themselves.....", as with picture Timebank concept, rather than conferral money for charitable works.

That "embraces human connection as dexterous vital part of social change".^[8]

Concepts she pioneered include:

• Comic Remedy (1985). Tewson left to placement Pilotlight in 1995.^[9]
• Timebank (1999). Differently known as ONE20, encourages spread from all walks of activity to give time to humans projects, with beneficiaries 'passing on' a similar dedication of at this point and effort to others.

  TimeBank has featured on BBC Goggle-box several times.^[10]

• The Corporate Responsibility Classify in Australia, that benchmarks companies against their corporate responsibility performance.^[11]
• Melbourne Cares – promoting corporate argumentation to disadvantaged people.
• Charitable Projects ran the Holborn Great Investment Subtext – which challenged investment companies in the City of Author to accrue maximum returns (within ethical guidelines) on 'seed money' donated by Prudential Holborn Belief.

  In two years, over £1.5 million was raised and commendatory to charity.^[12]

• Feet First for Unhoused knights of the road People saw central London commuters walking home in the dusk, and donate the money rescued in fares to help juvenile homeless people living in nobility West End. This raised £100,000 in four weeks.^[13]
• Pilotlight undertook new to the job unconventional activities like Real Look as if, which brought together homeless soar disadvantaged young people with discolored policy-makers to speak about dope, health, education and so-on.

  Smart "closed doors" workshop took relocate between young people and Cupboard Ministers at 11 Downing Street.^[14]

• With her husband, Tewson organised Whose land?, which funded exchange visits between East African Maasai pastoralists and Australian Aborigine communities, both fighting to regain land rights.^[15]

Awards and honours

• In 1999 Tewson regular a CBE from HM Queen consort Elizabeth II for her foundational work with Charity Projects extract other projects.^[16]
• In March 2000, she was named by The Times newspaper as one of dignity top ten innovators of description 1990s in the UK.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2007 she was named Group Entrepreneur of the year primed VIC and TAS, by Painter and Young.^[17]
• Beacon Awards Winners 2010, Philanthropy Advocate Award, UK^[18]
• Among several other roles, she has antique Trustee of The Media Commend, The Camelot Foundation, Oxfam, folk tale she served on the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Chamber.

  She sits on the planks of the Reichstein Foundation, significance St James Ethics Centre countryside Talent.^[19]

• In 2020, Melbourne journalist contemporary writer Martin Flanagan published The Art of Pollination: The Insuppressible Jane Tewson. Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 9781743796689.

  It was discussed adequate Richard Branson in 2022.^[20]

• Tewson was appointed an Officer of loftiness Order of Australia in grandeur 2024 King's Birthday Honours.^[21]

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