Organisations and Concepts
She has set up the following organisations:
- Charity Projects (1984)
- Pilotlight UK (1996)
- Igniting Change (formerly Pilotlight Australia) (2001)
And concepts she pioneered include:
- Comic Relief (1985). Tewson left to form Pilotlight in 1995.
- Timebank (1999). Otherwise known as ONE20, encourages people from all walks of life to give time to community projects, with beneficiaries 'passing on' a similar dedication of time and effort to others. TimeBank has featured on BBC TV several times, and the 2000 Hollywood movie Pay It Forward is based on a similar idea (believed unrelated).
- The Corporate Responsibility Index in Australia, that benchmarks companies against their corporate responsibility performance.
- Melbourne Cares - promoting corporate support to disadvantaged people (website down).
- Charitable Projects ran the Holborn Great Investment Race - which challenged investment companies in the City of London to accrue maximum returns (within ethical guidelines) on 'seed money' donated by Prudential Holborn Trust. In two years, over £1.5 million was raised and notated to charity.
- Feet First for Homeless People saw central London commuters walking home in the evening, and donate the money saved in fares to help young homeless people living in the West End. This raised £100,000 in 4 weeks.
- Pilotlight undertook further unconventional activities like Real Deal, which brought together homeless and disadvantaged young people with key policy-makers to speak about drugs, health, education and so-on. A "closed doors" workshop took place between young people and Cabinet Ministers at 11 Downing Street.
- With her husband, Tewson organised Whose land?, which funded exchange visits between East African Maasai pastoralists and Aboriginal Australian communities, both fighting hard to regain land rights . In October 1999, Pilotlight also helped facilitate an historic meeting between a senior delegation of Aboriginal Australians and Her Majesty the Queen.
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