Part of my role was to create two new success guides on those themes: tackling chronic loneliness through your organisation’s activities, and improving access to high-quality volunteering.
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Project Endings
This year has been one for project culmination so far. As well as the Everything to Everybody project reaching conclusion, Wolverhampton Arts and Culture completed their Esme Fairbairn Foundation-funded Living with Difference project, and Tudor House Museum came to the end of their Covid-impacted, ACE funded Bedfellows project. The latter was a textile-based project thatContinue reading “Project Endings”
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on…
It can be a bittersweet moment, wrapping up on the evaluation of a project that has been years and masses of hard work in the delivery, and the final sign-off for the Everything to Everybody project was no different. More than any other project I’ve had the privilege of being involved in, this project broughtContinue reading “But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on…”
Diving In
Jenni Waugh Consulting Ltd, Durnin Research, The Collett Consultancy and James McDonald, filmmaker, are delighted to have been appointed by Birmingham City Council and Moseley Road Baths CIO as evaluators of the Diving In project. With the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Diving In promises to complete the transformation of Moseley Road Baths.Continue reading “Diving In”
Goodbye 2022!
Whilst it might seem only a few days since I last posted, we are actually careering towards Christmas with all the speed and finesse of a runaway unicycle! I’ve had the great priviledge of working with some super organisations this last quarter of the year and, as a consequence, completely lost track of the months.Continue reading “Goodbye 2022!”
To Tech or Not to Tech
It was a lesson in how interactives can bring about joy without costing a huge fortune and without being digital, something that has been much on my mind as I’m working with a client on a reinterpretation plan.
And Just Like That…
…we’re in the last throws of June! The past 2 months have been so busy I’ve had to leave my website and blog to their own devices. And my own advice to take time for myself, be mindful of my own capacity went right out of the window! I have vowed to be better atContinue reading “And Just Like That…”
Oh, Hello Spring
If you have been lucky enough, as we have in the Midlands, to have had the past few days bright and clear, it really does feel like Spring has finally arrived (I know Winter only lasts the usual months but sometimes it feels longer). At the allotment, things are springing up all over the placeContinue reading “Oh, Hello Spring”
Are You Application Ready?
Last October, I posted a quick Dos and Don’ts Guide to managing your grant, inspired by my experiences running the grants admin for AIM. Talking to projects that had been funded, and more widely within my network, I realise we’ve now reached the point where we fling out applications willy nilly, almost a Pavlovian responseContinue reading “Are You Application Ready?”
Welcome to 2022
Prefer to listen to this as a podcast? You can find it on anchor.fm. I’ve been quite cautious about wishing people a happy new year. There was a lot of celebrating when 2021 dawned and promises that it was going to be the best year ever and then, well, the year unfolded the way itContinue reading “Welcome to 2022”
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