A pioneering collective of mentors aged 50-plus are sharing their extraordinary powers – that is, a lifetime’s worth of skills – in talks, tours, workshops and classes throughout London.
The Amazings is a social enterprise venture launched in 2012 and set to roll out across the UK in 2013, which has been billed as a ‘marketplace for wisdom’.
“Initially, we were looking at how we could create a new way to tackle the issue of an ageing population,” says The Amazings co-founder Adil Abrar. “As soon as we engaged with older people, we realised that it wasn’t about coming up with a service for older people, but for older people to provide services to us.
