The Diary of A Social Entrepreneur Aged 31 and 3/4

How to get funding, The Hunger Project and clever conversations

2010-07-19T07:28:00.000-07:00

This week ….Went to see Sally at Funding Central. Funding Central is such a great website - it combines a funding search with listings of tenders, contracts and loans available to the Third Sector and aims to educate the sector in partnership working, variations in financing and strategic planning as well as making the life of anyone involved in funding that little bit easier. They’ve got lots

Power Hour Launch Event

2010-07-14T07:42:00.000-07:00

Top tips for interview sucess!

2010-07-14T05:50:00.000-07:00

If you are having trouble landing that job or you have a really important interview coming up then take a look at then take a look at this video. Good Luck xx

Week in the Life of....

2010-06-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Another exciting Life Project week, starting off with a flight in a Tiger Moth – a birthday present from a good friend. Got to wear the jacket, but sadly no Biggles glasses. I hadn’t realised that the cockpit is open to the air – you could drown whilst in the sky! But my mate Allan says that’s why there is a hole in the bottom of the plane. Gearstick sits between your legs and you look out to the

Guest Blog Spot - Find Your Vocation Train the Trainer - Ro's take

2010-06-20T03:32:00.000-07:00

I was the last to arrive at the training session, when I did I was greeted by six happy, relaxed but professional, but not stuffy, tea sipping faces. Nice. A quick round of intros, for my benefit, revealed a university career guidance tutor, three professional coaches and an ex-lecturer, (soon to be trainee teacher). Needless to say I felt welcome and at ease despite my I-Phone related

Glitzy do's and those that have done well

2010-06-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

Thursday evening – attended the Teach First -Awards dinner. Quite exciting to see what can be achieved with the right support and the right strategy. Teach 1st was set up by Brett Wigdortz, a former McKinsey consultant, to bring excellent teachers into challenging secondary schools. The Award ceremony had lots of great examples of very inspired and enthusiastic teachers, giving it their all.

Graduation Entreprenurs and Activists course!

2010-06-16T07:10:00.000-07:00

Wednesday – the last day of the four day long Entrepreneurs and Activists course I have been teaching, for the third year, on behalf of the Friends Centre. The Friends is a local adult education provider from the third sector, offering a wide range of low cost and free courses and has its origins in the Quaker faith practice. This is the first course that I have had people not complete and I felt

Two new Life Projecters

2010-06-15T06:59:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday, Ian and Roisin started working with The Life Project. Their task…to get our voice heard, our name out there and our message loud and clear. It has come to my attention, that while I am very good at identifying the core of the problem and developing a training or product that cures it and I also great at presenting and teaching in a simple and accessable way, I am not quite so hot on

Meetings and leads - The Life Project

2010-06-14T04:36:00.000-07:00