Top 100: The incredible impact of National Star

The bottom line is what counts for every business, of course, but sometimes it’s worth just taking a quick look at their impact first - because sometimes it is simply incredible.

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(StarBistro at Ullenwood, one of the social enterprises run by the National Star)

As we play catch-up on some of the organisations featured in our rolling Top 100 Businesses in Gloucestershire series, which follows the fortunes of the county’s biggest businesses by turnover, we come across the National Star Foundation.

Before you get to its financial data in its latest annual report you get to numbers outlining the impact of what it does - support young adults with disabilities and learning difficulties.

It is simply astonishing.