Adrian Ashton

Location: Todmorden | UK

After  reading  business  at  University in  Cambridge, Adrian  worked  with  one  of  the  top 100  PR  consultancies  in  the  UK  before  taking  on  various management  roles  within  a  wide  variety  of  business, community  organisations and traditional enterprise support bodies.
 

These  experiences  enabled  him to  ‘turn around’  an  ailing  specialist social  enterprise  support  agency  into  a  nationally  recognised  body and  gained  him  recognition  as  an  authority  on  social  enterprises  from  local,  regional  and  national  organisations including what is now BIS and the Bank of England.  
 

He has used these position, along  with  his  knowledge  of  the  changing  environment  and  policy  context  in  which  enterprises  of all types operate,  to  deliver support  to  local  business and  national  projects  to  high  acclaim.
 

As well as being an occasional writer for national and regional publications, he also supports a number of university's enterprise programmes, and has been awarded several Fellowships and awards in recognition of his efforts to influence the enterprise support environment. To hos knowlege, he is also the only freelance consultant who annualy openly publishes a social impact report on himself.