Our 2024 animation is here. 🐝🌼🌺 This year’s theme for #WorldValuesDay is Bringing Values to Life. Kate Sullivan has done an incredible job creating it once again. If you would like to participate in WVD this year, please visit our website, which has lots of ideas.

Very excited to learn that the (free) MOOC about social enterprise I created for Manchester Metropolitan University Business School at the start of 2020 is not only still live, but also continues to prove popular with people taking it! rise.mmu.ac.uk/courses/social…

I'm increasingly using the term "capability building" when taking about initiatives and programmes aimed at supporting and growing the impact of charities, social enterprises, and similar, for this very reason...

"If in doubt, always blame the consultant" - and other truths, as shared in my recent @ValuesJam with Alan Williams... youtu.be/MwHkwP0_3Z0?si…

I wondered what #unpaidcaring would look like if advertised on LinkedIn... so I wrote the ad and made the case for paid leave for carers who can work while I was at it: numbereighteeninthecorner.blog/2024/09/02/unb… Carers UK We Care Campaign Patrick Butler LinkedIn Carers Trust

How many podcast series do you know that regularly pause and reflect on the messages that have been emergent in their interviews, in the form of a 'top takeaways'? Great example of how all podcasts should be from Knowing Self Knowing Others - knowingselfknowingothers.co.uk/reports-and-wh…

Who'd have thought that helping encourage people to pay more tax, could actually help us earn more return on our own investments..?

Delighted to have been invited by The Training MarketPlace to share some of my approaches and practices on how to make the delivery of training courses on-line just as good for learners, if not better, than it being 'in real life': thetm.com/en/buyer-blog/…

Really interesting point in this interview about the potential benefit for those proving #UnpaidCaring to explore self-employment / business startup as part of how they support their own wellbeing...

Did you know that better support for #UnpaidCarers could instantly see growth in 20% of businesses across the economy? thirdsectorexpert.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-be…

Anticipatory anxiety as an #unpaidcarer? Anyone else? numbereighteeninthecorner.blog/2024/09/09/wha… #mentalhealth Carers UK We Care Campaign Carers Trust The Carer Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer

Usual Monday email in my inbox today - I've been invited to be a facial model for a client who's launching new community training courses! (but I sadly can't make dates of the photoshoot, so no risk of my inner diva being let out...)

For anyone who's ever wondered about me, this may go a long way to explaining it all... 😉

"Your dreams can hit you at any age, and any time" - a salutary reminder and encouragement by tracy sheldon Tracy Sheldon Dip IMC F IDM MIoEE at yesterdays' Barney Mynott Academia networking event. For the next event in this series - fsb.org.uk/event-calendar…

On #WorldDolphinDay, a salutary reminder that (thanks to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), its our fellow mammals who are usually always one step ahead of us...

Exciting to realise that it's a landmark year for both Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and me this year! #FSB50 #FSBday (we've both levelled up to 'level 50' if you didn't get the reference....)

A chance to see me 'in real life' next month, (and win some prizes), as part of my supporting Lancaster District CVS with the delivery of a training day to help small charities more confidently get their heads around finance. trybooking.com/uk/events/land…?

About 500,000 freelancers/self employed in the UK are also #UnpaidCarers - but don't have access to any carer or business support. Find out more about how we manage balancing this, as part of Freelance Business Community free programme of events next month, on 7th Oct: freelancebusinessmonth.com

Just to be clear, I don't actively encourage people to drop mice into goldfish bowls...

Should becoming an #unpaidcarer be called 'entering into carer servitude'? Reading Carers UK's latest report on carer poverty made me think so: numbereighteeninthecorner.blog/2024/09/19/car… We Care Campaign Carers Trust Patrick Butler Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer (This blog contains French swearing- the best kind)