Comino Foundation

He wanted to support the development in the UK of a prosperous and responsible society by promoting approaches to learning which would lead to new understandings of the process of achievement.

Comino was determined, however, to deploy his GRASP approach which came to the attention of Dr Eric Bates CBE who was Head of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Education Unit.

[9] In parallel, Comino was also involved with discussions about 'anti-industrial' attitudes, and the Comino Foundation funded a fellowship which enabled Kenneth Adams CVO CBE (then director of studies at St George's House, Windsor Castle) to study and identify the causes of such views, producing a report "Attitudes to Industry in Britain" in 1979.

This work stimulated a series of 50 consultations at St George's House, an early outcome of which was the formation of the Industry and Parliament Trust in 1977.

It also led, in the early 1980s, to a Comino Fellowship being funded through the Royal Society of Arts, 'to change the cultural attitude to industry from one of lack of interest or dislike to one of concern and esteem'.

"[12] The Foundation encourages and supports innovative ventures designed to enable people to function effectively and to thrive.