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Community Energy Projects

Midsummer and a far cry from the dark days of a northern winter. So maybe not the best time to think about energy and energy savings. When we heard about community and energy…

2 year olds… Are we ready?

Free Entitlement for 2 Year Olds From September 2014 the number of 2 year old children being able to access funded places increases to 40% , reaching out to those who are most…

Kellett School, Hong Kong Students in Beijing

Year 5 Kellett School students have just returned from a week in Beijing. An experience of a lifetime with many cultural visits and contact with students in the capital of China. At Books…

Making Ideas Work… training at Canada Water Library

  You know that feeling when you have a great idea but the overload of work just weighs you down? Before that happens, don’t let the idea get squashed…. Build Something you Love! On…

Free childcare offer for 2 year olds

Family and Childcare Trust has released details from recent research which shows that thousands of two year olds in England may be missing out in the free entitlement to childcare. The programme to…

Labour plans for universal childcare

Ed Milliband has pledged in his new year message to pursue the policy of universal childcare for all pre-school children and to make childcare a priority, if elected as Prime Minister.(Guardian 30 December…

Happy Christmas

Child Rights Partners

‘Children and young people are to be involved in designing and delivering services aimed at them through a partnership between Unicef UK and six local authorities.’ Children and Young People Now, reported this…

DolphinBookBox returns

We have recently re-energised our oldest brand, DolphinBookBox. Some 10 years or so ago this was the delivery mechanism on-line for our community library and book delivery service. What we have found recently…

Summer redesign…

As the summer holidays become a memory in 2013 we have brightened our Autumn reading by installing and loading a fresh new design and layout for ChangeThinking, the news and reflection website for…