Neil Almond, founder and chief executive of trend-setting youth charity Kikass, is a firm believer in taking a different approach to working with young people.
An entrepreneur since the age of eight, when he a set up a business buying and selling sheep, Almond founded Kikass with a mission to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the youth sector.
"When I first set Kikass up I wasn't intending to run it for long. The original idea was to spend six months researching and creating a business plan, and then build something we could just hand over to a large charity," Almond explains.
"Large commercial companies have departments dedicated to thinking about how to innovate, how to develop new products and how to get even closer to their markets, but charities rarely have the resources to do the same."
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