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Forest Schools at Children’s Centres

We’re going on a dinosaur hunt! We are working with a children’s centre in the London Borough of Wandsworth and developing the Forest school project. To really fire some imaginations and persuade people…

Startup Britain – a useful web resource?

The ‘Startup Britain’ web site has the support of the Prime Minister – but is it, as some commentators have cynically described a government backed web link-farm – offering already available resources to…

Authorities – give away your space?
Become an ideas enterprise…

We were reading an interesting web article about the internet giant AOL and how they had made available, at no charge, the 225,00 square feet of office space they own in Palo Alto…

Are we anaesthetising our children?

A question posed by Sir Ken Robinson, world renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the Royal Society of the Art’s, Benjamin Franklin award in October 2010. You can follow it in…

The web and education – how we think about information

Michael Wesch of Kansas State University produces a continuous stream of films and concept refreshing ideas about information, education and the cultural power of the web. The short film below offers the viewer…

Being brave with the budget! Websites…..

Children’s Centres Budgets are getting close to the end of the financial year. If you want to find a way to spend the last of the budget wisely giving benefit for many years…

A surfeit of information?

Below is a short film of a recent TED programme talk by a teacher – Diana Laufenberg. It has a number of different messages. A mapping of the transition from a knowledge poor…

Creating the right zone

We have been doing a lot of work recently on the creation of good governance structures for a variety of charitable and social enterprise organisations. Policies and process play a large part in…

Daycare Trust Annual Conference 16th November 2010

First Steps to next steps: securing the future of childcare? A lively and interesting day at the annual Daycare Trust Conference held at One Great George St, in the heart of Westminster, London….

Renegotiating Value; Bonus or Pro Bono

‘Bonus vs Pro Bono’ is the second in a series of Renegotiating ‘value’ seminars and seeks to explore the value of inspirational leadership in business. The seminar will be held in the St…