Ewan Aitken has been in his current role as Chief Executive of Cyrenians for 7 years.  Cyrenians is a charity that works with people at the margins – the forgotten, ignored and dismissed – to give them a self-determined and settled life. He's also been an ordained Minister and leader of Edinburgh City Council.

Sir John Timpson and I talk about family, how and why he and his late Wife Alex adopted more than 90 children, what a saintly yet wonderfully eccentric woman Alex was and amongst many other things, why there are only colleagues in Timpsons, not management and employees.  We also get to here John's view on Attachment and why employing former prisoners has been quite as successful as it has been for their business.  

Gordon Goldie and Wife Lynne lost their 18yr old daughter Sarah in March 2016.  Her body was recovered from the River Clyde by the Glasgow Humane Society and as a thank you, family and friends got together and raised just over £10,000 in a year.  Gordon then joined as a member and was later asked to join the board of directors where he has been Vice Chairman for the last three years.  

His story is of Resilience, an incredible outlook on life and he's a man who has managed to, in spite of enduring the most horrific catastrophe, move on with his life.