Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson

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Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson, OBE (born 8 November 1954) is a social entrepreneur.

Andrew Mawson was brought up in Bradford, Yorkshire. He trained for Christian ministry at the Northern Baptist College in Manchester under Principal Michael H Taylor. He gained a BA degree in theology from the Victoria University of Manchester.

In 1998 he co-founded the Community Action Network, a UK national charity, and remains its President.[1] He is renowned for his pioneering work at the Bromley by Bow Centre in East London, which became the UK's first Healthy Living Centre. Andrew received an OBE in the Millennium New Year Honours List[2] for his work there since 1984.

He is a founder board member of Poplar HARCA. In 2006 he launched the Water City initiative for East London with Richard Rogers.[3]

In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he would be made a life peer; he sits as a crossbencher.[4] The peerage was gazetted on 29 March 2007 as Baron Mawson, of Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. He was introduced as a peer on 30 April 2007.

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  1. ^ Biography on Community Action Network website. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  2. ^ Millennium New Year Honours List. BBC News (31 December 1999). Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  3. ^ 'Water City' plan for east London. BBC News (22 May 2006). Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  4. ^ Six new non-party political peers. The Guardian (15 February 2007). Retrieved 22 June 2007.