Matthew Thomson, formerly a director of learning for the London-based School for Social Entrepreneurs, is to take up the post on September 4 and will head a 15 strong team at the LCRN.
The London organisation is now thought to be larger in staff numbers than the Bristol-based national Community Recycling Network organisation. Last week LCRN communications officer Vicky Kington, confirmed that the London organisation wanted to take on more of a national role.
Mr Thomson, who left the SSE earlier this summer, spent less than a year with the school where he was building its “knowledge and experience into such domains as social policy, sector strategy and 'the mainstream'.” Prior to this he was formerly co-director of Time Bank and vice-chair of London Cycling Campaign.
Travelling
He joined the SSE after spending 20 months travelling in East Asia, South Asia and South East Africa with a spell in Central Europe.
Following this Mr Thomson said: “This was the proverbial voyage of a lifetime and I met many inspiring people in my journeys. Poor countries are great places to find people making the most of slender resources and I am certain that we in Britain have much to learn from the so called 'less developed countries', especially when it comes to social enterprise. I am keen to explore ways of linking communities of social entrepreneurs across borders.”
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London CRN recently signed an agreement to join the Furniture Reuse Network (FRN) and the Community Composting Network (CCN) to coordinate their activities and lobby the national government of issues of interest (see letsrecycle.com story).
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