Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So Sir Stephen Tindall is stepping away from the company he created, the Warehouse.From a company he created in a garage, the big Red Store has become part of the New Zealand landscape.  Its shops have sprouted in towns across New Zealand, providing Kiwis with affordable goods and towns with valuable jobs.With $200 million his pockets he’s decided to dedicate the rest of his life to inspire his fellow countrymen to better themselves.It’s something he’s already well versed in.  His Tindall Foundation has looked at social issues and invested $160 million worth of Warehouse dividends into New Zealand communities.The foundation is mostly concerned with education and housing.  On education, he says we appear to have skipped a generation of parents in terms of needs and that we need to teach parents different ways to bring up their kids.On housing, he talks about an Auckland Primary School where 40 per cent of the students were transient. He knows that all our problems are interlinked.  So the Tindall foundation is