Zenna Atkins is Among the UK\’s Foremost Social Entrepreneurs
Posted in Education on 11/11/2010 05:11 am by NeilZenna Atkins is among the UK’s top social entrepreneurs and has had a extraordinary career which has involved its share of controversy. Zenna has proven herself as a voice of authority on various social problems which affect the united kingdom today including housing as well as education. Zenna’s forthright thoughts about a variety of issues about the education system throughout Britain have often started heated debate in the media and other sectors.
After she left college Zenna set up an unemployment agency in Cornwall and then worked her way through the ranks to be Senior Deputy Manager at The Richmond Fellowship. The Fellowship is a leading national charity whose goal is to create therapeutic communities for vulnerable individuals inside society.
Zenna Atkins has an very busy work life with a variety of prominent roles in the public and private sectors. Zenna is at present the Chairman of Ofsted the children and learners inspection and regulation body, Chairman of the NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust in Portsmouth as well as being the Group Chairman for Places for People. Places for People is a national enterprise whose goal is to provide neighbourhoods of choice for all. At present it manages in excess of 58,000 houses all over the United kingdom and is responsible for building 1700 affordable houses per year.
In addition to these responsibilities Zenna is a Non Executive Director on the Royal Navy Fleet management board, a trustee with the Olympic Legacy Trust and also a voluntary chair on Dreamwall and that is an innovative young peoples’ organisation very near to her heart.
In 2000 Zenna was given the esteemed Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Portsmouth University. She is married with 2 children and lives in her home in Portsmouth.