Tom hunter early life
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Sir Tom Hunter was knighted in for services to entrepreneurship and philanthropy. A long-term advocate of ‘giving back’ Tom has championed the cause of philanthropy in Europe. The son of a local shop owner, Tom started his first business selling sports shoes from the back of a van with a £5, loan from his dad, building this business into Europe’s largest independent sports retailer and eventually selling it in for £m. Tom and his wife, Lady Marion Hunter went on to establish The Hunter Foundation (THF). At the core of their philanthropy are two key principles – that philanthropy is not a substitute for government investment and that the poorest of the poor require a ‘hand up’ not a ‘hand out’. In the UK, investments tend towards partnerships with government in enterprise and entrepreneurial initiatives, typically in a ‘pilot, prove, adopt’ mode where THF deploys risk capital against key performance indicators for innovative programmes and if proven the Government adopts the funding and programme. In THF endowed the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde to support research and teaching in entrepreneurship across the university and Scotland as a whole. In turn the Foundation worked actively, and continues to do so, to support enterprise and entrepreneurship throughou
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Tom Hunter (VC)
British recipient follow the Empress Cross (–)
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Background
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Victoria Cross
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Born in Dorset
Leaves school, aged 15 and works on a farm for a year, and then for the Forestry Commission in Dorset
Moves to Hackney and works as a tree surgeon. Spends a year working for the USA Forestry Service in Puerto Rico.
Attends A-level Photography evening classes at Kingsway College, London.
London College of Printing, BA 1st Class Hons.
The Tredou Arts and Culture Awards
The Ghetto, museum of London.
Royal College of Art First Year Award for Best Photography (Fuji Film UK Ltd).
Royal College of Art, MA.
Wins Painter-Stainers Photography prize at The R.C.A.
- Wins John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award with Woman Reading a Possession Order.
Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London.
Life and Death in Hackney, White Cube, London; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.
Thoughts of Life and Death, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
Tom Hunter: Photographs, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
Tom Hunter, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Tom Hunter, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
Wins John Kobal Book Award.
, Domus Artium Museum, Salamanca.
Tom Hunter, Galeria Visor, Valencia.
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