Finance

Trading upwards

Entrepreneur Paul Barry-Walsh firmly believes it’s time government took a back seat and left it to charities like his own to support the disadvantaged. Clare Goff meets him

Paul Barry-Walsh, founder of the Fredericks Foundation, outside the charity’s headquarters in Surrey

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Job well done?

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It’s the taking part that counts

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The Incredible Edible experiment

After five years of austerity and with more to come, the need to rethink local economies is more pressing than ever. Governments are not going to do it for us. The big society has evaporated as a political idea. Many of the new private sector jobs are precarious, low-wage roles with few prospects, barely keeping body and soul together.