East Anglia can keep pioneering change by helping ex-offenders, says Norse Group CEO Justin Galliford.

East Anglia has a long history of embracing pioneers who changed how we live and think.

French silk weavers who escaped persecution settled in Sudbury and created an industry still thriving today. Benjamin Britten found tolerance and peace in Aldeburgh, and his legacy lives on at Snape Maltings. Colin Chapman conquered world motorsport.

And Elizabeth Fry started reforming the prison system 200 years ago. We have an opportunity to continue that tradition by helping ex-offenders into employment. We can innovate and help society like generations of East Anglians before us.

Among the hundreds of inmates at HMP Norwich, around 30 are former Armed Services personnel. Up to half of the U

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