“It sounds a bit ‘Miss World’ but I was never really interested in making money”
– Victor Adebowale

Name: Lord Victor Adebowale
Age: 45
Business: Turning Point
Role: CEO
Where: Started in London

He’s known for his work with helping people get their lives back on track and in 2000, he was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to the unemployed and to homeless young people.

Victor has previously been the regional director of the Ujima Housing Association, Britain’s largest black-led housing association.

He also worked as director of the Alcohol Recovery Project before becoming chief executive of youth homelessness charity Centrepoint in 1996. In 2001, he joined Turning Point in his current post.

Turning Point has been helping people turn their lives around for 40 years now, with an emphasis on the ‘whole’ person and helping an individual on a variety of levels.

The organisation runs projects in 244 locations across England and Wales, and in 2006 it helped 130,000 people on their route to a better life.

www.turning-point.co.uk

Victor tells us who he wants to inspire and why he’s only ever wanted to work in a social business…