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This week’s Inspiring People features Steve Dunstone.
Steve has lived in Hutton for the past 25 years and has an exemplary service in both the RAF and Met Police over a 30 year period.
Between 2000 and 2010 Steve was the Counter Terrorism Security Advisor on the Royalty Protection Department SO14, responsible for the technical protection of all UK Royal Residences.
He has been involved in expeditions in Peru, Iceland, Thailand and has raised thousands of pounds for various charitable organisations.
In 2004 Steve led a British Expedition down the River Niger in West Africa to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of a little known explorer called Richard Lander. He returned to Nigeria in 2009, opening an IT centre for children in the North and the Richard Lander Museum in the South.
Steve has also been turbaned twice as a Chief and given the Honorary title of Mabudi of Borgu (“The one that opens”)!
Next month, Steve is off to Nigeria again to return TWO Benin Bronzes to HRH The Oba (King) of Benin City. Over 3,000 such items were removed by the British in a raiding party in 1897 and have since remained the property of the British Museum. This will be the first of the bronzes to return to Benin City since 1897 and the entire city is expected to turn out into the streets to welcome the Ibis bird and bronze Bell.
The other items held within the British Museum remains a longer term objective.
Steve also presents Inspiring People with Ben Lacey and still organises various charitable events including the first Brentwood Firewalk. He has recently qualified as a hypnotherapist and is moving on to different ways of helping people.
