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Archive for March, 2008

BERR Enterprise Strategy

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Hats off to Prowess - the network of organisations and individuals supporting the growth of women’s business ownership- for working so hard to influence the latest Enterprise Strategy from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which was launched quietly on Budget Day 2008.  
We fed into this strategy at a Prowess organised consultation day on bonfire night 2007, after [...]

Making Web 2.0 work for the Voluntary Sector

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I attended an interesting event organised by the NCVO Publishers Forum before the Easter break.
Making Web2.0 Work For You was an introduction to Social Networking and online developments relevant to the voluntary sector.
 
As this blog takes off and we ‘learn-as-we-go’ I was grateful for lots of useful information and advice from early adaptors… which was all delivered [...]

Budget 2008: tackling child poverty

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Thanks to Save the Children for the Image (c) Photo credit: Teri Pengilley
So another budget day rolls by. I used to find it a real bore, having to watch this dull, middle aged, white man speak about things that I didn’t think really affected me. I think many people still hold this view.
But have things changed [...]

Unconditional Leadership driven by values

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

photo credit: Môsieur J.
David Robinson, Community Links’ co-founder and now senior advisor, spends part of his time with the LinksUK team. David occasionally writes an opinion column for Community Care his latest article is in the current issue. Community Care Editor Mike Broad has kindly agreed that we can reproduce David’s column here.
A Moral Crusade
On 4 [...]

Hmmm … very interesting…

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Russell Davies has announced  that “Interesting 2008″will be on June 21st at Conway Hall.
Russell organised the Interesting2007 conference which he described as “…a simple idea, a day of quick talks (either three minutes or twenty minutes) about stuff that people found interesting. Nothing that was professionally useful or important. Just things that people had a passion [...]