When I first submitted this blog to Jenny, she read it and then sidled up to me and...
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Back to blogGet off the diet kicks and learn to eat, serve and advise on nutritionally sound food.
Admit it, you're either going on a diet, thinking about a diet or have just given up...
Camp beds, James Bond and Pandemonium: the Olympics have arrived.
I was going to blog about babies and business which hit the headlines last week - namely...
Having a customer conversation with Tesco
The influence of the modern supermarket on our daily lives is remarkably powerful. We take the big...
A lesson from Her Majesty the Queen: be nice, look nice, act nice.
Unsurprisingly, there is not a single LEYF nursery that hasn't been joining in the Jubilee Celebrations this...
Do you really need GCSE Maths grade C to have a laugh or do a sum?
I am very pleased to be able to represent LEYF as a member of Professor Cathy Nutbrown’s...
Using ‘Little Women’s Christmas’ to begin a post modern feminist debate on motherhood
On 6 January, Irish women - especially those in Cork - celebrate Little Women’s Christmas (Nollaig na...
So we are all Social Enterprises Now? LOL!
I read in this week’s Third Sector magazine that Kevin Carey chair of the RNIB told the ...
Down on the farm, cultivating an organic approach to Big Society
Alongside the delight of being Chief Executive of LEYF, I am also chair of Paddington Farm Trust. ...
Sense of humour goes a long way
There was a book reviewed in Charity Times recently called The Art of Raising Money by Ian Bruce...
Colleagues, be careful what you wish for…
The Daycare Trust Conference yesterday was the site of another announcement by our new Minister Sarah Teather...
Trust and leadership
It’s a shocking thing to discover that a woman once trusted as a reliable and caring nursery...