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I’m pleased to announce our second event, which will be an evening on “Networking for Success” held in central Reading on Thursday 20 February 2014. We’ve got a great line-up of speakers, and I’m sure it will be another fun evening of networking, learning, and getting to know each other a little better.

I’m sure all of us know someone who has suffered from dementia. Reports suggest that dementia is more prevalent in African, Caribbean and South Asian people compared to the white British population, and that it starts earlier within the UK African and Caribbean population compared with the white British population. That’s why I’ve been particularly interested in […]

Have you heard of the Institute of Fundraising? The Institute is all about helping people working in charities and not-for-profit organisations get better at raising money for their charity or project. It’s well worth keeping an eye on their website. They put on regular conferences and training, and occasionally have bursaries to help with the […]

One of the things we are often asked about is funding for small community ventures. Reading Borough Council has a fund of £20,000 for grants to local non-profit organisations, and there’s also some money available for improvements to premises. All the details are online here – but you’ve got to be quick, the deadline is 31 […]

The University of Reading has got a couple of great free online courses open for registration at the moment. The nine week course on Managing People caught our eye, but the seven week course to build your own mobile game looks great too. You can find all the courses here and there are many more from other universities on […]

Anyone else going along to this workshop from Reading Voluntary Action tomorrow evening? Looks like a great opportunity to find out how to get involved with changing things in Parliament.

Here’s an opportunity for someone – Get Reading are reporting that the Jacksons site in central Reading is being offered rent-free for a short term let – tenant just has to pay the rates and other outgoings. More here: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/jacksons-offered-rent-free-short-term-6511339

Happy New Year to you and wishing you every success in 2014. This is a great time to have some ideas and goals for the direction you’d like to take this year – personal and professional.  I hope we can work together to achieve even more than we can separately.  I am currently looking into […]

Here is a link to today’s Autumn statement by the Chancellor.  Do you know how the changes will affect you?