
Rob is Chief Toaster (CEO) at Toast Ale. We brew our planet-saving beer using unsold loaves from bakeries and unused crusts from sandwich makers. With a slice of surplus fresh bread in every bottle and all our profits poured into the charity Feedback to fight food waste, Toast is the best thing since, well, you know…
Prior to Toast Rob led Ashoka in the UK, a global support network for social entrepreneurs. Rob is an award winning serial social entrepreneur having founded a number of ventures over the years. He founded READ International in 2004; a Tanzanian student-volunteer-led development organisation which to date has provided over 1.5 million books to school children and created 100 school libraries. He co-founded Generation Change in 2012, a partnership of the UK's leading youth social action organisations, helping 600,000 young people a year take positive action in their local communities. He also recently co-founded the youth-led campaign Undivided; a non-partisan campaign set up to get the best possible Brexit deal for young people. In 2011 he co-authored a book with his wife Nikki about social entrepreneurs in Africa called On the Up.