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24-509: Lawrence Neil Tomlinson (born 24 July 1964) is an English businessman, who with an estimated fortune of £550 million, who ranks 151st on the 2011 Sunday Times Rich List . Tomlinson grew up in Batley , where he attended grammar school before going on to study engineering at Huddersfield College at age 15. Early on in his studies, engineering company, Wellman Bibby, spotted his skills and sponsored his engineering degree at Bradford University . He

48-632: A deal worth in excess of £100m. Ideal Carehomes retained 15 care homes across the Midlands, North West and Yorkshire. In June 2017, Ideal Carehomes moved to its new Headquarters in the Midlands to bring the team closer to the location of the homes and has since expanded its portfolio to 16 homes after opening Mountview in Leicester in November 2017. Tomlinson donated £40,500 to the Conservative Party during

72-464: A giving index of 88.89%, which amounted to donations in 2018 of £299.6 million. A fuller version of the Rich List is also published in a reference book edition, edited by Philip Beresford . This list covers the top 5,000 richest people, rather than the top 1,000, and includes their business addresses: Global Entrepreneurship Week This annual event occurs over the span of one week and includes

96-419: Is multi-colored compass with rounded typeface of ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ coming from the top right section. The color spectrum, which includes 26 colors, represents GEW’s international span. The compass shape adheres to the notion of navigation and the direction of entrepreneurship in the future. Many of GEW’s partners fuse their own logo with the compass in order to demonstrate a joint collaboration towards

120-593: The 2019 United Kingdom general election , split across thirteen candidates. In April 2013, Lawrence Tomlinson became Serial Entrepreneur in Residence at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills . Tomlinson was selected from over 100 candidates. Tomlinson was awarded a £10,000 honorarium and expenses in return for one day a week in the Department. Tomlinson ran a competition for his £10,000 honorarium in return for

144-838: The Rich List are published in the newspaper and online as its "Rules of engagement". The Rich List is not limited to British citizens and it includes individuals and families born overseas but who predominantly work and/or live in Britain. This excludes some individuals with prominent financial assets in Britain. The editors estimate subjects' wealth from a range of public information, based on values in January each year. They typically explain their actions by stating: "We measure identifiable wealth, whether land, property, racehorses, art or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. We exclude bank accounts—to which we have no access... We try to give due consideration to liabilities." The 2015 list marked

168-506: The Rich List , The Sunday Times has produced an annual Giving List , which tracks the most generous philanthropists in the UK as a proportion of their wealth. In 2018, it was reported that, of the 300 philanthropists listed in the Giving List , a total of £3.207 billion was given away. Jamie Cooper, the former wife of hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn , was ranked in first place with

192-579: The Tomlinson Report . The Entrepreneur in Residence scheme has been extended for a further year. In March 2014 BIS advertised for two new Entrepreneurs. An enthusiastic race car driver, Tomlinson and his two co-drivers steered the Team LNT Panoz Esperante to first place in the GT2 class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 2006. In 2009 he raced the in-house developed Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S , which

216-649: The GT2 class at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 2006. Tomlinson's contribution to engineering has been recognised by three Honorary Doctorates from the University of Huddersfield , the University of Bradford and Leeds Metropolitan University . Tomlinson sold Orchard Care Homes (originally Tricare ) in 2007 for £175m. Since the sale, he has set up the Ideal Carehomes operation. He re-entered the care sector in 2009 when he set up Ideal Care Homes. In 2015, social housing provider Anchor bought 24 care homes from Ideal Carehomes in

240-571: The Ginetta car factory. Sunday Times Rich List The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth . The list is updated annually in April and has been published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989. The editorial decisions governing the compilation of

264-542: The Serial Entrepreneur in Residence in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills in 2013–14. Tomlinson started in business importing ski boats and classic cars into the UK. Borrowing £526k from his local bank in 1988, he bought out his parents care home company and, spotting a gap in the market for bespoke purpose built care homes, he went on to design, build and operate new facilities, establishing LNT Construction in 1991. LNT Construction has built 20–25% of all

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288-841: The Year award from the Motorsport Industry Association in 2008, and the Ginetta G50 crowned Autosport's Car of the Year, in 2009 Tomlinson was nominated by the MIA for the Outstanding Contribution to Motorsport award. Today, the LNT Group and Ginetta are housed in a purpose built site in Garforth , Leeds . Opened by Damon Hill OBE in December 2007, it houses both the group headquarters and

312-428: The best idea for growth. The winner was announced during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2013. Throughout the year, Tomlinson worked across Government departments providing advice and feedback to civil servants, Ministers and MPs on policy ideas including; planning, red-tape and access to finance. Tomlinson’s time in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will largely be remembered for his work on

336-614: The care home from his parents in 1988. This was the start of Tricare. Tomlinson initially started with a single care home in 1988, which has since grown into the LNT Group and employs over 1,000 people across five core businesses: The LNT Group was ranked 28th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 Companies in 2010. Tomlinson was the Institute of Directors’ Overall Director of the Year 2013 and advised Government on business issues as

360-403: The country. A further addition to the LNT Group was LNT Solutions, a chemical company that Tomlinson bought from his motor-racing instructor in the pub following a track day. The business initially produced domestic products which, whilst demonstrating good technology, were not best suited to business-consumer sales. LNT Solutions supplies Network Rail with a chemical that stops trains slipping on

384-581: The first year Queen Elizabeth II was not among the list's top 300 most wealthy since the list began in 1989. She was number one on the inaugural Sunday Times Rich List 1989 . The most recent list was published online on 17 May 2024 and in print on 19 May 2024. The Sunday Times Tax List was inaugurated on 27 January 2019 in the Sunday Times Magazine , using data collected for the Rich List and edited by Robert Watts. Since 2005, as part of

408-402: The leaves, de-ices the third rail and supplies runway and aeroplane wing de-icer to airports across North America and Northern Europe. In 2005 Tomlinson acquired Ginetta, which has been continuously building race cars since 1958. Since its purchase by LNT, Ginetta has grown to become one of the most significant players on the global motorsport scene. Tomlinson has himself raced at Le Mans winning

432-529: The mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman . The Kauffman Foundation’s mission is to create “a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities. ” Their two main areas of focus are: advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth. Enterprise Week UK is Enterprise UK's campaign to connect youth, women, homeworkers, people from ethnic minorities to entrepreneurial opportunities. It

456-451: The momentum of their national GEW campaign—building a network of partner organizations to run events and activities during GEW and supporters to help promote the national campaign. Below is a list of participating countries, along with some of their past respective host organization(s). A global partner is any organization that agrees to host one or more activities during Global Entrepreneurship Week. These organizations include: The GEW logo

480-402: The new elderly care homes in the UK, operating under a vertically integrated model since 2008, when Tomlinson purchased their main subcontractors for cash. From there, he launched further businesses including LNT Software, which develops and sells bespoke software for the care home industry. LNT Software's care home management programme, CoolCare has been installed in over 1,000 care homes across

504-498: The participation of millions of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurship support organizations and interested individuals. Currently, 165 countries celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week running national campaigns that generate approximately 35,000 events, activities and competitions. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Kansas City , Missouri , established in

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528-558: Was also raced in 2010 by Nigel Mansell . In 2005, Tomlinson bought Ginetta Cars from the group of enthusiasts who had brought it out of administration. Tomlinson designed the specification for the Ginetta G50 car which was built within six months, and now races in GT championships across the world, and has its own Ginetta GT Supercup series in the UK. After Ginetta won the Small Business of

552-699: Was founded in 2004 by the British Chambers of Commerce , the Confederation of British Industry , the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses . Each country that participates in Global Entrepreneurship Week designates a host organization to lead the campaign (in rare instances, two or more organizations share this responsibility). Host organizations are responsible for galvanizing

576-476: Was head hunted by Holset Engineering for their Graduate Trainee Programme in 1987. Throughout most of his youth, his father was a haulage driver and his mother worked at Fox's Biscuits. When he was in his teens his parents started a care home. Tomlinson was involved from the start, writing software on an Amstrad 8256 to aid them with the management of the care home. After completing his studies, and whilst still in training at Holset Engineering, Tomlinson bought

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