Shauneen Lambe: Just for kids Law - Britain's 50 New Radicals - NESTA. Website: www.justforkidslaw.org Started: 2006 Based: London Just for Kids Law runs a number of programmes aimed at providing support, advocacy and assistance to young people with a variety of needs. These include an educational programme providing representation and assistance to young people who are experiencing difficulties in their education, and a community care programme, taking referrals when there is no adequate local authority provision for young people. The charity works in conjunction with the Youth Department of Lawrence & Co solicitors, which Shauneen also established and runs. In 2010, Shauneen was chosen as a World Economic Forum 'Young Global Leader', and in June 2011 was made a Shackleton Fellow. Speaking about the charity, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, said: "I think JfK Law is a most remarkable new kid on the block, an inspirational social invention in the law where innovation is rare.
" Rob Hopkins: Transition Town Movement - Britain's 50 New Radicals - NESTA. Website: www.transitionnetwork.org Started: 2008 Based: Totnes The model is based around communities learning to grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own homes using local materials. The book was based on the experiences of the town of Totnes where the model was piloted.
Since then, the Transition Model has gone viral and has been adopted in towns and communities across the globe. The follow-up to the book, The Transition Companion: Making your community more resilient in uncertain times, tells the story three years on, and includes examples of the work being done through the Transition Model in other communities. Judge's Comments Lucy Siegle says: "The Transition Town Movement combines practical responses to a very big problem (climate change and resource depletion) with innovation and common sense.
Pamela Warhurst: Incredible Edible Todmorden - Britain's 50 New Radicals - NESTA. Website: www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk Started: 2008 Based: Todmorden Incredible Edible aims to get people thinking about, and involved in, local food production. Residents are encouraged to turn their neighbourhood into 'edible public spaces' by growing food wherever possible - including car parks, pubs, pavements, and schools. While the project initially took a guerrilla-gardening approach, they soon began approaching public and private sector landowners for permission to plant on unused grounds. The Incredible Edible team have since worked with Calderdale Council to make it easier for people and organisations to plant on council owned land, and have formed partnerships with public institutions such as schools and transport providers.
Challenging the notions of what people can physically create in the public realm, this project has no formal membership and all residents are encouraged to participate as and when they can. Lexxic - Britain's 50 New Radicals - NESTA. Website: www.lexxic.com Started: 2006 Based: London Lexxic's goal is to unlock the potential of people with dyslexia and other neurological differences, raising the awareness of dyslexia within the workplace, and creating dyslexia-friendly environments.
Founded by Nicola James, a chartered occupational psychologist, Lexxic is now a UK-wide consultancy working with FTSE 100 organisations and government departments to deliver support strategies for employees or customers with dyslexia. Services include workshops, dyslexia assessments, learning style assessments, coaching and consultancy. The team is comprised of a group of experienced psychology professionals who have worked with blue-chip companies, voluntary organisations and the public. In January 2012 and using the profits from Lexxic Ltd, Nicola launched an e-learning website, www.skillsrocket.com, which offers free resources including tutorials, video support and tips for adults with neurological differences.
Conrad Wolfram - Britain's 50 New Radicals - NESTA. Website: www.wolfram.com Started: 1987 Based: Oxford Conrad Wolfram is a British technologist and businessman and he has been a prominent proponent of the reform of maths education through greater use of information technology. He is the founder of computerbasedmath.org, a project aiming to build a new maths curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart, alongside a campaign to refocus math education away from hand-calculating techniques and toward relevant and conceptually interesting topics. In 2009 he spoke about education reform at the TEDx Conference at the EU Parliament and again at TED Global 2010 where he argued that 'maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical', and that 'calculating is the machinery of math - a means to an end'.