Rowntree Visionaries project
Symon Hill reports
On Wednesday 23 March a report on the five-year project ‘Visionaries for a just and peaceful world’ was launched at an event in the Royal Institute of British Architecture in London.
In June 2005 the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) marked its hundredth anniversary by naming seven ‘visionaries’ whose work would make a contribution to Joseph Rowntree’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
Around 1600 people applied – the oldest was eighty-eight, the youngest nineteen. Of the seventeen interviewed, seven people (one was a jobshare) were appointed. Each Visionary was given £37,500 pa, plus expenses up to £5000, but had to find further funds to make their ideas a reality.
The Trust quoted Vaclav Havel: ‘Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.’
The seven visionaries include Carne Ross, recognised for helping marginalised groups through independent diplomacy. He is joined by Geoff Tansey, for working for a world in which all can feed themselves sustainably; and Heather Parker and Mark Hinton, who have together built bridges between people of different multi-cultural backgrounds in Coventry and beyond. The others are Karen Chouhan, for a black-led decision-making approach to racial and economic inequality; Roy Head, for saving lives by tackling inequality of information about health; and Clive Stafford Smith, for his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons.
The Friend is publishing a series of profiles of the visionaries and their work, written by Rosemary Hartill, which were specially commissioned by the JRCT for the report.
The first profile, of Carne Ross, is in this week’s issue (see ). On Wednesday 23 March a report on the five-year project ‘Visionaries for a just and peaceful world’ was launched at an event in the Royal Institute of British Architecture in London.
In June 2005 the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) marked its hundredth anniversary by naming seven ‘visionaries’ whose work would make a contribution to Joseph Rowntree’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
Around 1600 people applied – the oldest was eighty-eight, the youngest nineteen. Of the seventeen interviewed, seven people (one was a jobshare) were appointed. Each Visionary was given £37,500 pa, plus expenses up to £5000, but had to find further funds to make their ideas a reality.
The Trust quoted Vaclav Havel: ‘Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.’
The seven visionaries include Carne Ross, recognised for helping marginalised groups through independent diplomacy. He is joined by Geoff Tansey, for working for a world in which all can feed themselves sustainably; and Heather Parker and Mark Hinton, who have together built bridges between people of different multi-cultural backgrounds in Coventry and beyond. The others are Karen Chouhan, for a black-led decision-making approach to racial and economic inequality; Roy Head, for saving lives by tackling inequality of information about health; and Clive Stafford Smith, for his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons.
The Friend is publishing a series of profiles of the visionaries and their work, written by Rosemary Hartill, which were specially commissioned by the JRCT for the report.
The first profile, of Carne Ross, is in this week’s issue (see On Wednesday 23 March a report on the five-year project ‘Visionaries for a just and peaceful world’ was launched at an event in the Royal Institute of British Architecture in London.
In June 2005 the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) marked its hundredth anniversary by naming seven ‘visionaries’ whose work would make a contribution to Joseph Rowntree’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
Around 1600 people applied – the oldest was eighty-eight, the youngest nineteen. Of the seventeen interviewed, seven people (one was a jobshare) were appointed. Each Visionary was given £37,500 pa, plus expenses up to £5000, but had to find further funds to make their ideas a reality.
The Trust quoted Vaclav Havel: ‘Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.’
The seven visionaries include Carne Ross, recognised for helping marginalised groups through independent diplomacy. He is joined by Geoff Tansey, for working for a world in which all can feed themselves sustainably; and Heather Parker and Mark Hinton, who have together built bridges between people of different multi-cultural backgrounds in Coventry and beyond. The others are Karen Chouhan, for a black-led decision-making approach to racial and economic inequality; Roy Head, for saving lives by tackling inequality of information about health; and Clive Stafford Smith, for his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons.
The Friend is publishing a series of profiles of the visionaries and their work, written by Rosemary Hartill, which were specially commissioned by the JRCT for the report.
The first profile, of Carne Ross, is in this week’s issue (see Carne Ross)
