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Patrick Vernon OBE awarded a Lifetime Fellow of the Reach Society

Patrickvernon.org.uk 1 year ago

Patrick Vernon OBE awarded a Lifetime Fellow of the Reach Society

On Saturday 28th October, Professor Patrick Vernon OBE FrHistS was honoured to be awarded a Lifetime Fellow of the Reach Society and a recognition award for his dedication to reduce inequalities in healthcare, including for his work to establish Windrush Day to honour the Windrush generation’s contributions to Britain’s post-Second World War economy and NHS workforce.

Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.