TIMING IS UK TIMING
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18 January 2022
5:00pm - 6:15pm
Hosted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and the University of Birmingham, this webinar will be chaired by Senior Research Fellow, Lord James O’Shaughnessy, with Labour MP Rushanara Ali, Conservative MP Danny Kruger, and Helen Goulden, Chief Executive Officer of The Young Foundation.
About this event
The second in a series of webinars considering ‘Civic Virtue and the Common Good’, the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues is delighted to once again welcome three prominent figures from UK public life. This time the speakers will evaluate the status of 'Service and the Voluntary Spirit' in Britain today.
Chaired by Senior Centre Research Fellow, Lord James O’Shaughnessy, this session will welcome Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, Rushanara Ali, Danny Kruger, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes, and Helen Goulden, Chief Executive Officer of The Young Foundation.
Speakers
Helen Goulden
Chief Executive Officer of The Young Foundation since 2017, Helen was previously Executive Director at Nesta, responsible for leading their Innovation Lab supporting and scaling innovation in the arts, civil society, government and education sectors.
Prior to this Helen has held roles within both the public and private sector including in the Cabinet Office and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Helen has a long-standing interest in how technology can be used as a tool for social change and co-operation and holds degrees in Philosophy and Responsible Business Practice from Cardiff and Bath Spa Universities.
Danny Kruger MP
Danny Kruger has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes in Wiltshire since 2019. A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford he has worked at the Centre for Policy Studies think tank as a policy adviser and was David Cameron's chief speechwriter between 2006 and 2008.
Leaving the political sphere, he founded two charities concerned with young people - Only Connect and West London Zone - and received an MBE for his charitable work in 2017. Returning to politics as an MP, with fellow parliamentarian Miriam Cates MP he established the New Social Covenant Unit in 2021.
Rushanara Ali MP
Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in Greater London since 2010, Rushanara Ali MP is former Shadow Minister for International Development and Higher Education as well as the current chair of the Philanthropy and Social Investment APPG.
A graduate of St. John’s College, Oxford, Ali has spoken extensively on the need for a new approach to volunteering in the UK and has served as trustee, commissioner and board member for a range of charities across her constituency and nationally, as well as co-founding several organisations focused on developing the leadership skills of young people such as One Million Mentors in 2016.
Lord James O’Shaughnessy (Chair)
Lord James O’Shaughnessy joined the Jubilee Centre in April 2021 as Senior Research Fellow. Prior to joining the Centre, Lord O’Shaughnessy was Director of Policy to the Prime Minister between 2010 and 2011, a Government Whip (Lord in Waiting) between 2016 and 2017, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health between 2016 and 2018. Lord O’Shaughnessy also founded Floreat Education, a multi-academy trust focussed upon character. He was made a life peer in 2015.
Free and open to all, this session draws upon previous and ongoing applied research of the Jubilee Centre and its staff looking at the topics of service, social action, civic virtue, and the common good, particularly in reference to young people and those that support them.
Further details, insights and publication can be found be visiting the web pages linked below and via the Centre's social media.
www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/civicvirtues / www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/youthsocialaction
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