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Mentoring not Mothering (part 2)
Mentoring a number of individuals representing many different route ways to the sector (including volunteers, undergraduates, private business owners and post graduates) recently left me with an interesting dilemma that I have been thinking about. Individuals with social ideas are being pushed into ‘social enterprise’ as a way of getting funding even though they do not understand the implications of joining the sector is about income generation not funding. This particularly seems to b...
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Mentoring not Mothering (part 1)
I am a mentor to a number of students and its been a real learning opportunity for both the mentee and the mentor. I think the relationship between the mentor and mentee is very important and is a very personal relationship as well as a professional one. Just as much as the knowledge of the mentor, you must feel comfortable and happy about their approach and what you want from your mentoring. I have a excellent mentor who is the vice chair of the local NHS Primary Care Trust...
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Being True to Communities
Delivering the last session of a course of 'Community Champions' in the Midlands made me realise how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in empowering and working with communities. This course was delivered to mainly tenants of Registered Social Landlords and was aimed to improve the community relations across different housing estates. It was one of the first times I was asked to deliver this type of course to the mainstream British population...
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Muslim Women's Forum
Last Monday I was asked to facilitate a workshop and speak at a new forum in Leeds aimed at empowering Muslim Women. Being rather suspect of these types of forums I was quite apprehensive initially as it was coming from PVE money(which many swear has been blessed by the devil itself and curses anyone for life for touching any of its money...) . Anyway ended up being roped into a very dynamic and interesting debate on what the issues are for Muslim...
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Happy Social Enterprise Day
Happy social enterprise day everyone. Hope there are many more social enterprises selling more services and products than ever before. I was thinking of how to translate happy social enterprise day into my native mother Tongue so here goes my first attempt' oombaraki raz da nin chi kam Karoobar dih khalko khizmat dipaara chalaigi'. And in Urdu it's ' Aaj Mubarak din hai uss karoobar ko Jo awaam kih faidi kay liyay chaltay hai...
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Excited about Downing Street Trip
I can't wait. I haven't been able to sleep at all so I have massive bags under my eyes. It does say on invite information that big bags should be avoided but I wonder if that also refers to eye bags? It will be great to meet all the great and the good of the Social Enterprise Sector there. The invite said lounge suit but I don't quite understand what that means from my cultural perspective.... At home I wear my happy cow pyjamas in the lounge....surely I couldn't meet the Prime Minister in my mo...
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