User:Anne Leonard

'CareerBold text' Charitable Work Anne Leonard has devoted much of her career to charitable causes. She is currently Chairman of Operation New World Ltd, a registered charity (No.1039451)- that provides an educational programme for the benefit of unemployed young people in the United Kingdom. The course consists of environmental fieldwork and practical outdoor skills together with self-development classes that take place in isolated areas abroad. The programme was devised, in collaboration with Colonel John Blashford-Snell, in 1993. The programme is provided free of charge to young people who are on the unemployment register, the funding being raised from private charitable trusts and also from Companies with a budget for charitable purposes. The success of Operation New World has been outstanding in that some 90% of trainees have found jobs or taken up the necessary re-training programmes shortly after completing the course.

Anne is also Vice Chairman of the British Society of Dowsers (Charitable No. 295911). This is the UK.s main organisation for Dowsing expertise in the fields of locating water sources, health and well being - amongst many other applications - and is introduced to the young people on-course to help with their self-development.

For twelve years - 1979 - 1991, she served as an officer in the F.A.N.Y (now the Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) training in paramilitary skills as well as map reading and navigation, and casualty bureau documentation; was Chairman of the Management Committee of Elizabeth House, a YWCA hostel in Central London and was a member of the British Council of the YWCA.

Publications Editor of two books of reminiscences about life at Trinity College, Dublin - Ireland's oldest university - in its Golden Era, 1940s - 1970. The stories, written by some two hundred Trinity graduates, are focussed on the part played in university life by the College's most notable academic, the charismatic historian, R. B. McDowell

The Magnificent McDowell - Trinity in the Golden Era ISBN 0-9553891 The Junior Dean - Encounters with a Legend ISBN 1 84351 038 3Anne Leonard (talk) 10:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)Links: www.opnewworld.co.uk www.themagnificentmcdowell.com www.britishdowsers.org www.fany.org.uk