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Joseph Holland-Crabtree

Joseph Mark Holland-Crabtree, School of Business and Management

I was involved in Project ReMAKE, an entrepreneurship training programme for formerly incarcerated people, in which student mentors like me are placed with a formerly incarcerated prospective entrepreneur to build a business plan over a 6-week period. The business plan is a vehicle for the previously incarcerated person to develop crucial skills such as how to ration workloads, how to format documents, and how to write concisely. Each week I condensed and simplified tasks, did aesthetic and grammatical formatting, and spent hours in one-on-one sessions with the candidate instilling confidence, and supported not only practically but emotionally. The candidate and I remain in contact and he continues to work towards starting his business.

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