Charities had previously been more concerned with people who were dying. While he has not yet had time to draw up a business plan to match his reputation, he may expand the project to include both France and Benelux as well as Eastern Europe. The eastern bloc has got the fastest rising HIV problem at the moment particularly where drugs are just not available. We have this enormous resource of people who are able to fill vacancies. Coming back to London has merely served to bring home to Gray just how cloistered a City lawyer's life is.
People forget about issues and life if they work here for too long.
If you go to a party and meet an old friend it can be very difficult to talk about anything other than what you do. He admits that his family, who mostly live in Spain, while surprised at his decision, were also shocked to find out how much he earns. They knew that I was a lawyer and earning lots of money, but they didn't realise how much. The news leaked before Gray could tell his clients of his plans, but he says that their acceptance and approval has been heartwarming. He has also been heartened by people from the past coming out of the woodwork, including a secretary who worked with him in the 1980s and has now offered to work two days a week for the new charity.