Quaker and Tropicana partner Carmel McConnell named Social Entrepreneur of the Year
Carmel McConnell, who leads the charity Magic Breakfast, was named as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the prestigious Edge Upstart awards ceremony in central London.
29 June 2008
Carmel founded Magic Breakfast, a child nutrition charity which delivers free, healthy breakfast food to 38 primary schools, currently feeding 1,300 children each morning. Many of these would otherwise start their school day too hungry to learn. To part fund this, Carmel designed and now runs Magic Outcomes Ltd, a leadership development firm. The judges were troubled to learn the UK's terrible track record on child nutrition. Carmel's work has done much to tackle this important issue. Quaker and Tropicana are supporting Carmel's work, providing products free of charge to give children in key schools the fuel they need for learning.
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