Going Green

Tuesday was my first day back from annual leave and I attended the County Durham Environment and Climate Change Partnership Emergency…

Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club

The past couple of weeks I’ve been in a number of meetings and discussions where I’ve thought about ‘othering’. In our attempts to define who we are trying to create positive outcomes for, we can end up creating distinctions between ourselves and other people…

A Buzz is not only for bees!

This week has had me out and about attending and facilitating discussions and networks… the bit I love!

Starting the week with some informal discussions and idea sharing around community growing and food organisations, community buildings and getting…

Happy International Women’s Day! 🎉

Impressive, wise and determined — also three words I’d use to…

The Complexities of a CRM

My work this week has focused a lot on our CRM. On Monday I had our quarterly review meeting with the CRM…

Mind blown by Microsoft

On Thursday this week, I attended a webinar on Copilot…a chatbot recently introduced by Microsoft. I hadn’t heard of it before so went in not sure what to expect and came out mind-blown by the pure cleverness of it all but also the sadness that soon humans will be redundant!

Feel Good Friday!

This week has been a crazy busy week with a mix of every type of training we offer here at DCA.

Monday was a day of new design and content creation as well as making adaptions to our existing training courses. On Tuesday I delivered our community development workshop…

A steady week with plenty to do!

On a personal note, this week has seen me tackle some man flu, though I have made it through the other side with a slight cough remaining. Anyway, on to my week.

This week has been quite busy and productive, as I have been working on several…

Legoland, licensing and lots of mailings!

Back to work on Monday after a lovely weekend at the Legoland resort near Windsor —the…

End of Winter — Beginning of Spring

Another busy week (seems this is going to be the normal from now on)! The highlight was when Katie finally realised the screens between the desks had been removed, her face was a picture and I think she found it quite emotional — she explained that since leaving…