AS A MEMBER of the Sainsbury family, establishing and running a charitable trust came naturally to Sarah Butler-Sloss. Today, however, the Executive Chair of the Ashden Trust is also a champion of sustainable energy through her work with the Ashden Awards, which she founded seven years ago.

Butler-Sloss says she can still remember clearly when as a fourteen-year-old she was first told by a science teacher at school about climate change. “I’ve always been passionate about the environment,” she explains. “Given my science background – I studied zoology at university – and my natural tendency to ...

 

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