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Oli Barrett

Oli Barrett

Social entrepeneur

Make Your Mark with a TennerWebsite: http://www.olibarrett.co.uk

Oli is very young but has already achieved more than most people could if they had the spring of eternal life bubbling away in their garden. For example, he's helped to launch countless organisations, sits on the Prime Minister's Council on Social Action and introduced speed networking to the UK.

He also came up with Make Your Mark with a Tenner, a competition that challenges 10,000 school pupils to see what they can achieve with ten pounds and one month - an ingenious scheme that reminded us of some of the Battlefront campaigns. This man would make a good mentor, we thought. And here he is.

He's particularly good at bringing people together who can get stuff done, so he's going to show our campaigners how to build a useful network of friends, and maybe lend them some of his.

Oh, and he used to be a Butlin's redcoat. But he doesn't like to make a song and dance about it.

WHO I'M HELPING

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Digitally Engaged

There is something oddly comforting about the Minister for Digital Engagement sending a formal invitation through the post.  Tom Watson MP is on warm and friendly form as he welcomes a group of us into Admiralty House this evening.  I have been in the main room for less than thirty seconds when one of his team [...]

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