Mosaic Network

The Mosaic Network is a charitable initiative founded by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2007 as part of 'The Prince's Programmes' at his charity "Business in the Community". The catalyst was a memorandum from The Prince of Wales to Julia Cleverdon, who was the chief executive officer of BITC, and John O'Brien MBE, who was the director of personal programmes. Although it sat well outside the normal focus of BITC, Cleverdon gave O'Brien a free remit to see what he could create. The initiative very quickly became formed a multiple set of initiatives which included, The Mosaic Schools Network, chaired by Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordon, The Mosaic Speakers Bureau with individuals including Pinky Lilani, Asad Ahmad and many others. It also consisted of a media network launched at Channel 4.

Statistics

In the academic year 2012/13, Mosaic supported 5,000 young people in 140 schools and other institutions, supported by over 900 volunteers. 83% of UK beneficiaries were drawn from the 20% most deprived areas of the country. Mosaic also operates internationally through its International Leadership Programme and delivery of its Enterprise Challenge competition with local partners in Jordan and Qatar. Mosaic’s International Leadership Programme supports 80 young leaders from 20 countries. ==Accreditation==

Accreditation

Mosaic’s schools programmes have received independent accreditation through the Approved Provider Standard of the Mentoring & Befriending Foundation. In addition, Mosaic’s programmes have been independently evaluated by Demos, the leading research organisation, which described its programmes as "very well run and both the mentors and mentees reported significant benefits in taking part". In 2013, Mosaic received the Prime Minister's Big Society Award. As stated Mosaic was originally an initiative of Business in the Community (BITC). As such, Mosaic was part of The Prince's Charities. in 2009 it was the subject of a move from Business in the Community to The Princes Trust, maintaining its connection with The Prince of wales. It is widely recognised that at this time the programme was subsumed and although nominally remains, is seen as being a smaller component of a much larger Princes Trust programme. The international leadership Programme was divided from the UK schools mentoring programme and placed in a then new Princes Trust International. Mosaic is overseen by a national Advisory Board: Mosaic's Founder Chairman (after O'Brien) was Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan. ==Apax Mosaic Enterprise Challenge==

Apax Mosaic Enterprise Challenge

The Apax-Mosaic Enterprise challenge was an innovative computer based game originally developed by O'Brien with subsequent co-chair (post Princess Badiya) Khawar Mann OBE, whose co-chair was Yasmin Waljee OBE, who hosted the challenge finals at law firm Hogan Lovells which she was head of Pro-bono support. It remains a national competition for secondary school students across the UK, designed to develop and encourage their entrepreneurial skills. ==Awards and nominations==

Awards and nominations

In January 2015, Mosaic was nominated for the Spirit of Britain award at the British Muslim Awards. ==References==

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