Startups Richard founded School for Startups in 2008 to help people start their own businesses through training and support courses, and to help governments and regions drive economic growth based on the principles of entrepreneurial economics. The school has taught over 30,000 people how to start their own business. The school is best known for a series of high-profile programmes including: School for Creative Startups, an accelerator for creative businesses, The Launcher Programme, a social lending partner of the Startup Loan Company, The Southwest Peninsula Programme, in partnership with the Regional Growth Fund, to help new businesses in the southwest region, Web Fuelled Business, bootcamps funded by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills designed to help small businesses use the web to maximise sales, save money and go global. Windows of Opportunity, a series of bootcamps providing instruction on raising and investing money and funded by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills. The Makegood Festival, an annual celebration of creativity and entrepreneurship running across a four-day festival, winner of the 2014 London Design Award. The Nigeria Youth With Education Programme, This program, funded by the Department for International Development UK and the Nigerian Ministry of Finance, delivered free tuition through full day bootcamps, mentoring and distant learning support to young entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The School for Startups Romania. This 12-month learning program ran for two years, was offered in two major Romanian cities: Bucharest and Cluj over a two-year period. The EU institution, The Post Privatization Foundation, supported the program. More recently Richard has focussed School for Startups on programs in developing countries. Recent programs include: The Colombia Creative program, a program funded by Innpulsa, the Innovation arm of the Colombian government, which taught and mentored Colombian startups in the creative industries become ready to go global The San Andres Projects, a series of project, focused on the Colombian department of San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, with the remit to re-shape the local tourism economy to permit more participation by local small businesses and entrepreneurs. The first stage was funded by a grant from the Foreign and Commonwealth's Prosperity Fund and the second stage was funded by the Colombian vice-ministry of Tourism and The Aldea program, a program initiated by Innpulsa to mentor small Colombian innovation businesses. Allegations of Child Sex Offences In January 2015, the Daily Mirror reported that Richard had been arrested on suspicion of