James Perry

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571 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Or do we want to broaden it into have more companies?

And those debates rage and different people take different positions and there'll always be controversy.

Bcorporation.uk will give you everything you need.

So as we were thinking about the purpose of the business, we wanted to nourish people and planet.

And that takes you down a lot of different

into a lot of different places, but one of them was into, obviously, the people.

And the background of that program, to some extent, comes from my mother, whose best friend, and Diana, her best friend, who insisted on

employing recovering heroin addicts.

So that idea landed quite deeply.

And then Dale, the chef who Ed co-founded the business originally with, is a very big-hearted man.

And he would look at his ingredients at the end of the day that might not be needed and think, well, we need to do something with these.

So the chefs used to go down to this homeless shelter locally and cook the ingredients for the people or help them.

Yeah, the unused ingredients.

And what the guy running that charity said to them was, look, this is lovely and thank you.

I'm very grateful.

But what these people really need is a job.

Can you give them a job?

And Dale said, sure, as Dale does.

And so it started in a very organic and not structured way.

But what really happened then was my sister took over leadership in Cook and became co-CEO with Ed in the early 2010s.

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