In this episode Rupert talks to Rob Wilson, Chief Toaster at Toast Ale, a planet saving beer designed to tackle food waste by using fresh surplus bread that would otherwise go to waste.
Rob is a serial social entrepreneur, author and award winner. And for good reason. Rob has founded multiple social change organisations including a charity called Read International, supporting education in East Africa, Generation Change, supporting youth social action in the UK, NoPC providing affordable, low power and low maintenance computer technology to schools across the developing world and Undivided – a campaign designed to get the best possible deal for young people.
Rob wrote the book, 'On The Up' documenting the amazing social entrepreneurs he encountered with his wife Nikki on their journey from Cape Town to Cairo and how they were transforming Africa.
Rob then ran the UK arm of Ashoka, a global community building, cultivating and supporting social entrepreneurs and their mission to change systems for the better. At Ashoka Rob met Ashoka fellow Tristram Stuart who had an idea to tackle waste - through beer…
After a period spent advising Tristram, Rob couldn’t resist the lure better brewing and became a full time change-maker co-founding Toast Ale, where he is now Chief Toaster. All profits go to charity principally to fight food waste. As he says, Toast is the best thing since well, you know what, and the mission statement is to change the world by throwing a better party than those destroying it.
