MEET THE AUTHORS!

Local residents Richard Grover & Ros Tennyson invite you to a drop in chat about their new publication – Social Business in Action – Trigonos in Eryri.

Building on their 24 years experience in setting up and running Trigonos – a residential retreat and events centre in North Wales – the authors seek to give confidence to others that it is possible to turn a great idea into an inspirational and sustainable reality. Warmly endorsed by local MP Liz Saville Roberts and others, this beautifully illustrated book explores a business approach that is values rather than profit-driven as a genuine alternative to its commercial counterpart.

At: 34, Penrallt Street, Machynlleth

BOOK LAUNCH AND PRESENTATION:
SOCIAL BUSINESS
A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE?

with authors, Richard Grover and Ros Tennyson

Saturday 8th March, 3 - 5pm

VENUE:
Senedd-dy Owain Glyndŵr’s Parliament House, Machynlleth

Have you ever wondered what ‘social business’ actually is and whether it might work as a mechanism for your own great idea(s)? Or are you simply curious about the story of Trigonos – a residential retreat centre in Snowdonia – which was set up as a social business in 1996 and is still going strong?

Local residents Richard Grover and Ros Tennyson, co-founders of Trigonos and authors of a new publication Social Business in Action – Trigonos in Eryri – will give a snapshot of the Trigonos story and then open the floor to a conversation about how social business can be a vehicle for innovative and sustainable change in a world that so desperately needs it.

Tickets in advance: £5
or on the door

Copies of the book will be available for sale

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Richard Grover
Prior to moving to Wales in 1992, Richard worked for many years as director of a rehabilitation project with homeless people or those coming out of prison or from long term institutional care. The project offered participants a job and a home in the belief that these were fundamental to re-building a sense of self and self-worth. Richard was Managing Director of Trigonos from 1996 to 2020.

Judy Harris
Judy moved to Wales from Norwich where she had started a small playgroup for the neighbourhood and then created a large community garden – which led to renting a market stall to sell on the surplus produce. Working on the land became her life’s work and her main role at Trigonos was to restore the land to sustainable productivity and explore the vital importance of the interdependence between the land and people’s sense of wellbeing.

Ros Tennyson
Ros had a wide range of (paid and unpaid) roles including: working in fringe theatre; managing a project for youngsters as an alternative to custodial sentences; setting up a community kitchen; overseeing an internship programme; leading a research initiative on the integration of so-called ‘alternative’ medicine into NHS primary care facilities and, most recently, promoting sustainable and transformative partnerships between business, government and civil society.

Social Business in Action – Trigonos in Eryri
is published by Y Lolfa, (£12.99) and is available from Penrallt Gallery Bookshop from 7th February 2025