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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...public recognition: badges and stickers (for individuals and vehicles) scarves, bags and other wearable objects long or meritorious service awards rolls of honour public events to acknowledge major contributions. Conferring status: membership (of all sorts of categories: associate/full/family/life) special clubs, for example 500 clubs for those who donate £500 or more...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...health. However, getting out may be challenging for people with dementia living in community or in a care home. The Parks Trust in Milton Keynes and the OU are working together to evaluate a new initiative of Walking Programme set currently as 5 Ways cafes in the local Manor Parks (Great Linford, MK) for people living with dementia in Milton Keynes and their informal...
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Article 10 mins
Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...Health Foundation survey, with 57% of 22-24-year-olds reporting their finances under strain. To narrow the gap between young and old fortunes, the government plans to suspend state pensioners’ ‘triple lock’ arrangement, which would otherwise raise pensions in line with inflation even if work incomes are sinking. But after successive stock-market and property booms...
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Article 5 mins
A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...health in relation to sport and fitness animations, and a free course about George Orwell’s 1984. [Blue banner says the world mourns for Queen Elizabeth II] Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral after reigning for 70 years, Liz Truss wins the months-long Conservative leadership race to become Prime Minister, with her new cabinet being the most...
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Article 5 mins
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...health in the VUCA World? In today’s VUCA workplace it is normal to feel self-doubt and underconfident. ‘Imposter syndrome’ (believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be) is a common occurrence and can make the experience of work more difficult, even if outwardly you have all the signs of being successful. Inwardly, you may be experiencing...
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Article 10 mins
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...health, with reports of depression, poor morale and reduction in productivity. In a study by Noer (1993), reactions to workforce reduction identified several key behaviours experienced by workplace survivors: [Reactions to workforce reduction infographic] One of the effects of surviving workplace organisational downsizing is a feeling of grief. There is more than one form...
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Article 10 mins
Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...future robotic missions) may be led by non-governmental organisations. These missions may also choose to land close to sites where water is available for life support or fuel. This all presents a further challenge for Planetary Protection, with a need to maintain Mars as an unspoilt and uncontaminated environment and ensure the health of those humans who visit the planet....
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Article 5 mins
What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...health and disease conditions in defined populations) to model a zombie outbreak. Their result is that we're all doomed in the event on a zombie outbreak, as dead people (including dead zombies) won't stay dead and will rise to eat more brains. Our only hope is to rapidly and overwhelmingly eradicate any zombie outbreak as soon as it occurs, which would probably involve...
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Article 5 mins