
John Charles
DR JOHN CHARLES SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR John is the Managing Director and founder of Catering2order. Setup in 2007 Catering2order... | London, London, United Kingdom
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John Charles’s Expertise DR JOHN CHARLES SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR John is the Managing Director and founder of Catering2order. Setup in 2007 Catering2order has rapidly become one of London’s leading contract catering social firms. The firm provides a range of catering services from office lunch delivery, buffet catering to staff restaurant and cafe management. The company’s passion for everything food related, quality of produce and attention to detail has led to a rapidly growing prestigious portfolio of customers including The Cabinet Office, The 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority, Lend Lease, Skanska Civil Engineering, Willmott Dixon, Wates Group, Southwark Council and Action For Blind People. As a new breed of “social entrepreneur” John has strived to ensure that the majority of Catering2order’s award winning, highly skilled and professional employees are either disabled or come from socially or economically deprived local communities. In addition the company wholly finances it’s own paid work placement scheme for people with disabilities from it’s own profits. The scheme enjoys an 85% success rate of graduates going on to successfully find meaningful employment. Catering2order’s efforts received acknowledgement when it was a finalist in the CBI sponsored Growing Business awards as Social Enterprise of the year 2008 and more recently in 2009 winning the Thames Gateway Business award. John has recently been awarded an honorary Doctorate in Business from the University of East London Specialties: Holding a number of advisory and consultative posts. Small Business Ambassador for the Department of Business, Innovation and skills BIS) Chair of BusinessLinks Deaf and Disabled Entrepreneurs Advisory Group (DDEAG) Member of the board of trustees for Social Firms UK Member of the board of trustees for Social Enterprise London In addition John’s knowledge and expertise means that he is a regular advisor to government and Ministerial forums and summits.
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Fri Jun 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present