David Robinson OBE is the co-founder of Community Links, founder and co-leader of the Relationships Project,[1] chair of the Early Action Task Force, and Honorary Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics Marshall Institute, developing new work on tackling social isolation.
Robinson co-founded east London charity Community Links in 1977 while at school, and was Chief Executive for 25 years.
[6] It began with the million selling Change the world for a fiver series of books before moving on to a range of other products.
He has also chaired or been a non-executive director with many organisations including BASSAC, Business in the Community, Social Finance Ltd. and the Big Society Trust.
David's books include Britain's Everyday Heroes (with Gordon Brown), 'Changing London' (with Will Horowitz),[8] 'Change the World for a Fiver'[9] and Unconditional Leadership as well as numerous papers and reports.