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‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...project educates on what food allergies are and how they can severely affect health and wellbeing, and restrict social freedoms such as eating out of the home...While food allergies were once thought to be more common in children, they are now more prevalent in adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...management: reflections and projections’, Women in Management Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 6–18. SCVO (2020) State of the Sector 2020. Available at: https://scvo.org.uk/policy/evidence-library/2020-state-of-the-sector-2020-scottish-voluntary-sector-statistics (Accessed: 8 October 2020). Sergeant, H. (2015) ‘Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh: how the world...
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...managing quality relationships of their own. This free course, Professional relationships with young people, explores different approaches in developing relationships and working practices which can inform work with young people...In some people's eyes the development of relationships is a good end in itself, as it is in relationships that we express our humanity. Young...
Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...Project COBRA, which focuses on increasing confidence across indigenous communities to address the challenges facing the Amazon. These articles emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within...
Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...projects...Children and young people can choose to participate in a variety of community, research and policy driven projects. Ellie Jones was awarded the Diana Anti-bullying Champion Award in 2010 for her work with Changing Faces - a charity that supports young people living with a facial disfigurement and works to tackle appearance-based discrimination. Ellie has been...
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...management. With the technology now available to us, we can now work on high-quality collaborative projects without the need for in-person meetings. Collaboration is a key part of the workplace. For many people, the only way to effectively get work done is to partner with others. In a hybrid environment, it’s important for collaboration not to be impacted. Even if you...
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...manages a project like Family Time in the neighbouring county-- asking if I'd read the report. And I emailed back, and soon we were in one of those depressing email threads where we both start to see a future with our own referrals going down and down, and no way we'll meet our targets. And then the finances fall over, and so on, and so on. Anyway, I had a staff meeting...
I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3

...project has hit rock-bottom. Charlie has to decide what to do next. In our clips, the forest catches fire - and Charlie uses a halluciogenic brew to get a clearer head...[Charlie Hamilton James with cattles] I Bought a Rainforest is a new series following wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James who has bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Charlie's original aim was...