Zoe Raven

Zoe is the founder and CEO of Acorn Early Years Foundation, a social enterprise and charity which operates day nurseries and other childcare services across Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.  Zoe is also a part-time doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London where she is researching ethical issues in early years provision. Zoe is currently the Vice-Chair of the MK Parks Trust a charity which aims to improve the local area through the development of its £140 million endowment fund.  She originally trained as a secondary school English teacher and her four children were educated in the state sector – with one of them now teaching in London.