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Article: Doing the job right
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- New Statesman
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- June 30, 2008
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Bob Barrett's Beef Kitchen amazed the judges at the New Statesman/ Edge Upstarts Awards for social enterprise.
Coping with chemotherapy as well as getting over a period of homelessness would leave most people preoccupied with their own lives, but not Bob Barrett. The idea for the Beef Kitchen hit him in 2005 when he was recovering from cancer at the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation, a charity that provides housing and support services for homeless ex-service personnel.
The foundation is based near Chelsea football ground, and during B ob's recovery he had to take a lot of rest. As he lay in bed, he explained, "I'd watch out of the window and see people going off to the football. And suddenly a ...