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Taking time to think about EDI in volunteering

Taking time to think about EDI in volunteering

The last few months I attended conferences, events and working groups, and my -physical- notebook is full of notes that I didn’t get time…
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Angele Tilly
Catching learning

Catching learning

From a conference on Saturday: Apparently the education gap isn’t objective?!?! I saw an interesting panel reflecting on Education Policy…
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Lily Eastwood
Headlines of my week

Headlines of my week

I don’t feel like a big reflection this week. When we do Minister briefings government we are often asked for ‘Top Lines’ or ‘Lines to…
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Emily Marsh
Kind recruitment

Kind recruitment

I am doing recruitment for the first time in a while. I have a lot of love for lots of parts of our process — it embodies some things that…
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Lily Eastwood
Speed Weeknoting Race

Speed Weeknoting Race

Lily has set a 10 minute timer and it feels like a race!
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Emily Marsh
Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

This week my (usually spectacularly terrible) green fingers have been at work. I made seed bombs with Joni at forest school, we’ve been…
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Lily Eastwood
Ideation

Ideation

Yesterday we had our Ideation session for the schools project and I was pleasantly surprised when loads of people a) attended and b)told me…
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Emily Marsh
Happy Volunteer’s week

Happy Volunteer’s week

1st-7th of June this year was volunteers week, and in hindsight was probably not the best week for me to take my holidays, oops. So before…
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Olivia Prophet
What do you want to know?

What do you want to know?

I had a great chat with Hannah yesterday after she guested at a committee meeting. She told me a bit that the Session Leaders would be…
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Lily Eastwood
analysis paralysis

analysis paralysis

This week i have been very good at making to-do lists and much less good at prioritising and doing them.
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Emily Marsh
Capturing learning

Capturing learning

If you leave an organisation for a year (say, to have a baby in a global pandemic…) you will probably panic about emptying your head of…
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Lily Eastwood
Rate my work week:

Rate my work week:

Like rate my plate but a bit less yum…
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Emily Marsh
Challenge 1 — Writing a Digital Strategy on a Shoestring

Challenge 1 — Writing a Digital Strategy on a Shoestring

Here is my post from LinkedIn:   I’m always happy to write a strategy or plan. It’s a chance to better understand what’s going on and…
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Jude Williams
A week of questions

A week of questions

A combo of things have limited my weeknote content this week. Another three day week and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff that’s not actually…
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Lily Eastwood
What makes a good buddy?

What makes a good buddy?

I have a lot of buddies. I also am a buddy to a lot of people.
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Emily Marsh
Sticking plasters and long-term solutions

Sticking plasters and long-term solutions

Some dictionary definitions… A vicious circle is a problem or difficult situation that has the effect of creating new problems which then…
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Lily Eastwood
Great Job? But it’s not perfect!

Great Job? But it’s not perfect!

This week I was chatting with Rhi about the Digital Plan and where we are with the Virtual Ship and published projects. As we all know…
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Jude Williams
Some questions in my head right now

Some questions in my head right now

Hackney Half
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Emily Marsh
Time spent well

Time spent well

I’m late to weeknotes club and as I don’t really have extra time today I’m still aiming to be done and dusted before the session is out…
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Lily Eastwood
Busy reflection

Busy reflection

I wasn’t planning on coming to Weeknotes Club today because I had a jam-packed morning trying to finish off the big data pack for my…
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Emily Marsh
It’s a chocolate cake for breakfast kinda month

It’s a chocolate cake for breakfast kinda month

I’m having a really good week. In fact, this month has been great. It’s like I’m having a metaphorically good hair day every day. (and…
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Olivia Prophet
Our users are people

Our users are people

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about people. Why they do things, why they don’t do things, how they think and what makes them think.
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Emily Marsh
This Week…

This Week…

Monday: Bank Holiday and May 1st, so I trotted down to Highgate cemetery with number three child. He is the best because he let me blab on…
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Jude Williams
Purging myself of the grump

Purging myself of the grump

The big knotty projects continue and that’s really fun, but in between the meetings and the activity I’ve found my resilience has been low…
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Lily Eastwood
Biking home

Biking home

This week I’ve been comparing this teaching role with being in the classroom — there’s the main big differences that jump out when you…
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Tess Connell
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