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Article: Turning young lives around; Continuing Northern Business Daily's look at philanthropists in the North-East business community, Graeme King talks to Tor Paints founder Guy Readman.(Business)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2007
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GIVING money - or that evenmore precious asset, time - to help those in the community worse off than ourselves isincreasingly seen as a necessaryresponsibility of the successful business executive.
Increasing prosperity has been welcomed as a sign of Britain doing well, but the gap between rich and poor get sever wider.
The Community Foundation charity has probably done more than any other body to make the case for those who have done well in life to make a contribution to those in need.
And one good example of its work with North-East businesses is ...