A women’s development programme, developed in the UK and now delivered around the world, is continuing to prove its worth in this country. The Springboard development programme, developed and run by The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), enables women - from all backgrounds, ages and stages of their lives - to identify the practical and realistic [...]
A hundred young people wanting to make a success of the transition from education to the world of work have been the first to try The Springboard Consultancy (SBC)’s recently developed ‘Boost’ training programme. “Boost is a personal and work development programme for people who’re relatively new to the workplace, and in the early [...]
Waste King - a specialist collections, clearance and recycling company that focuses on providing a highly environmentally friendly service – guarantees to recycle 98 per cent of every load it collects. However, it had an unexpected challenge recently when its Customer Service Assistants, Harry Durham and Andy Morgan, came across a run-away dog not [...]
The Box Moor Trust, which manages some 480 acres of agricultural and amenity land for the benefit of the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, has approved a grant of £2,500 to Workplace Matters (WM), an ecumenical charity which takes Christian values into the workplace. The grant is to help WM provide equipment for [...]
The Endless Bookcase – as part of its ‘Endless History’ series – has published a history of Pendley Manor, the former home of the BBC showjumping commentator, Dorian Williams, and now a hotel and conference centre. The book ‘A Perspective on Pendley: a history of Pendley Manor’ is available as an e-book: ASIN: B00LTZF5BY; some [...]
Workplace Matters, an ecumenical charity which takes Christian values into the workplace, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Canal & River Trust (CRT). This MoU cements the continuing development of the Waterways Chaplaincy, a service which helps boaters to cope with the difficulties they face. Under the MoU, the Trust is supporting [...]
And finally – for this month anyway – a report in that august UK national daily newspaper, The Daily Mail, last week revealed that Clowns International, the UK’s sole organisation representing these performers, has seen its membership drop from almost 1,000 in the 1980s to just over 100 currently. Moreover, the average age [...]
Clients of the European Nursing Agency (ENA) Care Group have raised over £400 for Aspire, a charity that supports people with spinal injuries. Through its projects and programmes, Aspire offers practical support to the 40,000 people in the UK who live with a spinal cord injury. The charity aims to help these people [...]
A study into the relative business advantages of personality versus social networks, conducted by PhD student Blaine Landis, from the Cambridge Judge Business School, has revealed that who you are matters more than who you know. Landis analysed over 70 independent research reports before coming to the conclusion that personality is a stronger [...]
