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September 21. Bolton has also provided funding to the King’s Kid Orphanage in Mitiana, Uganda, with his donations leading to new housing, classrooms, water provision and the acquisition of farming land.
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Bolton is a patron of not-for-profit organisation Peace One Day, having worked with them for more than a decade and provides pro-bono mentoring and training to aspiring social-impact entrepreneurs through the Bolt group of companies. Ratified by the United
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The ‘Axe the Tenant Tax’ campaign achieved wide-spread national media coverage, and Bolton met with the housing
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Development Training in 1997, providing outdoor team, management and organisational development programmes. In 2001 RCD went into liquidation. Bolton was forced to sell his family home in Dorset to avoid bankruptcy in 2002. In 2002, Bolton set up a drop shipping business and
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Kingdom by forming a coalition of major organisations who are opposed to new government legislation that restricts landlords’ ability to deduct mortgage finance costs as a business expense. Coalition stakeholders represent more than 100,000
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