| Activity | Michael came as a pupil to Dartington School in 1929 when he was fourteen years old and virtually became a co-opted member of the Elmhirst family soon after. Social innovator and entrepreneur. Michael wrote in 1999 that when he arrived at Dartington in Sep 1929 his room was in the East Wing, the third on the right after the stairs on the first floor. Trustee of The Dartington Hall Trust (-1992); Director, Labour Party Research Department (1945-1951), involved in the drafting of the 1945 general election manifesto, 'Let us face the Future'; Secretary of PEP from 1942-45, becoming its Vice-President in 1966; founder and Chairman, Institute of Community Studies (1952); Advisory Centre for Education (1960); National Extension College; founder of the Consumer Association (1965) including 'Which?' and 'Where?'; started a dawn university on Anglia Television, which became the prototype for the Open University, launched by Harold Wilson in 1964; Trustee for Dartington Amenity Research Trust 1967-; made a life Peer in 1978 taking the title of Lord Young of Dartington; Trustee for Dartington Institute of Community Studies, 1980; Trustee for Dartington Institute, 1983; Trustee for Dartington Centre for Education and Research, 1984; founder the University of the Third Age (1982); the Open College of the Arts (1987); Open School (1989); the National Association for the Education of Sick Children (1993); the School for Social Entrepreneurs (1998). |