It's 12 months since his chairmanship of the firm behind the ill-fated Connexions Card and London's congestion charge came to an unceremonious end. He quit after 22 years over claims that a 1m loan to New Labour resulted in the FTSE 100 group getting government contracts, a link he has always dismissed as "spurious".
Aldridge is chairman of youth volunteering charity v and a long-serving trustee of The Prince's Trust, and last September set up The Aldridge Foundation, which is staffed by five people at offices in London. It sets out to back projects that provide educational opportunities for disadvantaged young people. "I want to put something back," he declares. "I've always been a social entrepreneur."
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