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Philip UdehPhilip Udeh established Community Builders in order to inspire tomorrow's generation to be today's leaders.Community Builders currently deliver an innovative peer-led intervention which is called the REAL Talk programme, tackling youth criminality and raising aspirations across London.

Philip grew up in London in Brixton and then Haringey.He went to a school where for many young people crime and anti-social behaviour in their local area was a distraction from academic achievement.

Unlike many of his peers and under the judicious care of his parents Philip did well, going on to the LSE to study Development Economics.Afterwards he worked for CAFOD, delivering presentations in schools and engaging university students in campaigns including Make Poverty History.After the campaign Philip became disillusioned with the ability of multi-million pound campaigns to deliver real change.He wanted to make a direct and immediate impact on people's lives so he left CAFOD and went to work in Lewisham as an equalities officer for youth & education.

While there he realised that empowering young people to exercise their rights and supporting youth-led social action projects was a real chance to make a change.

Philip Udeh

Philip Udeh is the founder of Community Builders, an innovative programme that inspires tomorrow's generation to be today's leaders.

So Philip Udeh, the dynamic looking head of Community Builders, a charity that seeks to ,inspire young people to become the next generation of social action leaders', was not outraged by this old Tory and his chav-baiting nonsense. Not a bit of it, he only gave him much needed street cred. I hoped that he might have questioned the sweeping claims made about young people, or rubbished the proposed interventions to solve the problems associated with them. He might have pointed to the persistence of poverty and how it predisposes young people to crime or social ,exclusion'. Instead, he confirmed Duncan Smith and the rest of the political elite in their tired prejudices. There is a ,culture of self-abuse' in our communities, he said. Improving outcomes for children ,means targeting parents too', he concurred.

Contact: Philip Udeh, Director, Community Builders, will deliver a 2 minute elevator pitch to compete for 4 places in the final pitch at at the Cityzone "The Change Game - businesses that change the world" event on Wednesday, 21st January at Cass Business School, London, EC1.