Julia Middleton
Julia Middleton is the chief executive and co-founder of Common Purpose, a leadership development organisation. [1] She formerly worked at The Industrial Society.
Background
Common Purpose was formed in 1988. Her husband, Rupert Middleton went on a business course in USA where he spotted Community Leadership Programmes. Julia Middleton raised half a million in business sponsorship. According to Charles Handy, in 1999 Common Purpose had 120 paid staff with a turnover of £3million sterling. Julia's father worked for Peat Marwick and she had met Rupert, John Garnett, Julia Cleverdon at the Industrial Society.[2]
CP's website has an impressive PR and sponsor list. There are a few rants about it online (mostly centring around Middleton's proximity to the Office of the Deputy PM (ODPM) and the political patronage thereof. [3] Yet Middleton has herself criticised political patronage.[4]
Middleton is well networked in the New Labour, Careerist, Atlanticist networks.
Affiliations
Middleton's biography states she has helped to found the following organisations:
- Demos think tank
- Alfanar or the Arab Learning Initiative, which describes its role as venture philanthropy.[5]
- Media Standards Trust
- The Good Governance Network
- Impetus Trust, which develops venture philanthropy in the UK
Middleton is also on the Advisory Group of the Oxford Business School.
Notes
- ↑ Julia Middleton, Common Purpose, accessed 14 December 2010.
- ↑ Handy, C. (1999) The New Alchemists, Random House
- ↑ For example [1]
- ↑ House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Government By Appointment: Opening Up The Patronage State, Fourth Report of Session 2002–03
- ↑ Arab Learning Initiative [2] and Alfanar
