Online Meeting by Zoom
Tue, Nov 10th 2020 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Peter Heslam of the Judge Institute, on "What is Business for?" Speaker Host: Edward Thackray NOTE TIME 6:00 pm
Peter Heslam is Director of Faith in Business and a Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University. He is an expert on the Dutch Christian thinker, statesman and social entrepreneur Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). In directing an international research project on the positive potential of entrepreneurship, he has interviewed scores of business leaders around the world. He is a graduate of Oxford, and of Cambridge where his academic career has been based, and where he has convened the Symposium for Enterprise, Ethics and Development (SEED)
He is also a co-ordinator of Transforming Business, a multi-disciplinary research and development project on enterprise solutions to poverty at Cambridge University. He works particularly closely with faculty at the University's divinity and business schools and with leaders in international business. He is also the chief co-ordinator of the international network of business practitioners, ethicists, economists, consultants, educators and opinion formers that surrounds the project.
Peter has been the Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at the University of Oxford, Director of the Capitalism Project at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, the Convenor of JustShare (a consortium of twenty development agencies), and an Adviser to Lambeth Palace on the issue of globalisation. The recipient of a number of prizes and awards, he is a Senior Member of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the International Leadership Association and an adviser to Beyond Profit, Entrepreneurial Leaders, and to the journals Faith in Business Quarterly and the Journal of Markets and Morality. He is also a Visiting Professor at Yunnan University in China and has served as a judge in the international business competitions on enterprise solutions to poverty organised by Pioneers of Prosperity.
'What We Do' Main Pages:
The results of our annual competition - two of our local winners have also won at District level
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We have become one of only four Rotary Clubs to be awarded a Platinum Certificate, in recognition of donations to Shelterbox of £10,200 in 2022-3
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Several of our entrants last year had success at District level and one was a winner of the National final
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Our annual competition for budding artists - our entrants all won the second stage District Competition last year
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Our popular event for school choirs and their families & friends raised over £15,000 for local children's charities
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We organise two-day breaks at a National Trust site in N Norfolk for young people aged 12-15 who probably won't get any other holiday
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Our Junior Competition entrant has gone on to win at National Level. Our Intermediate Team won third prize in their group
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Past President John Martin uses his building skills to help the locals create a community centre for this deprived settlement in The Gambia, only a few miles from the luxurious tourist resorts on the coast
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We raised funds supporting Ukrainians both in Ukraine and in Cambridge & East Anglia from several events in 2022
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The East Anglian District and National Rotary Magazines feature the wide range of charitable and fellowship activities that Rotary Clubs enjoy
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We and our colleagues in the three other Cambridge clubs celebrated 100 years of Rotary service in 2022
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We are part of a worldwide movement of 46,000 Rotary clubs with a total of 1.4 million members. We enjoy a range of informal fellowship events while supporting local and international charities
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Cambridge Aid does great work in support of Cambridge residents in need. In 2019-21 we raised over £12,500 and we continue to support them
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RYLA offers an intensive 7-day course for 18-26 year-olds, helping them to develop as future leaders
moreA sample of our members' varied interests and significant contributions to the local community
moreA brief history of the Rotary Club of Cambridge together with some records which might be of interest to the wider audience
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