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Now that it is Springtime there are many activities going on around the area. Here are a few ideas! 🌷 #activitesinstlouis #activitiesinstcharles #themcgrathteam #stlrealestate #coldwellbankerrealtygundaker #stlrealtors #mcgrathteamrealtors #stcharlesrealestate #stcharlesrealtors

It's about Rotary training tonight. I appreciate the planning and work put into a webinar I "attended." Are you in Rotary or another service club? What would you like to know about what your members are interested in? #Rotary #serviceaboveself #communityservice #RI

SOCIAL VALUE SYNCHRONICITY 🔁 Nearly all tenders now include questions around social value, which aim to understand how the bidding organisation adds value to the communities in which they operate. Buyers want to work with a supplier who shares their values and which is committed to creating positive local impacts, as well as being able to deliver their project successfully. Social value can include economic, environmental and social factors and often includes a broader recognition of the impact/s that the procurement itself may have in society. SMS Group | Ship Repair | Marine Interiors | Marine Engineering | SC SQEP is evidencing their commitment to social value through a variety of projects, and I'm delighted to be supporting their initiative to engage with, and upskill, their local supply chain. My Bid Skills Workshops will help specialist suppliers and contractors bid for work with SMS Group, and support their delivery of a significant pipeline of works at Devonport Dockyard, for Babcock. My workshops will include content on how bidders can demonstrate social value in their bids for SMS Group, creating some lovely synchronicity around this project. ➡️ Please DM me to register your interest in attending the SMS Bid Skills workshops. #bidwriting #bidskills #socialvalue #plymouth #devon #tenders

📢 Announcement 📢 It’s been 6 months since the launch of Move Together, Kent and Medway’s strategy for sport and physical activity. There’s already so much going on across the county to get more people, more active, more often. Here's what you, our supporting partners, have told us how you're contributing to increase activity across Kent and Medway 👇 Together we are… Connecting Communities Pledge your support to the Strategy 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e3uT4VQ6

I love sharing examples of what positive, future focused outcomes can be achieved when community, businesses and schools all work together. Thanks Alicia Poole for inviting me to be part of this feature article for HUNTERhunter.

SPOILER ALERT!!! (If you know where I’ve been travelling, please don’t share the location, as I don’t want this community to be taken out of context). I don’t have the answers to Candice James BEM’s question but here’s something I’ve just learned about empowering community (or disempowering community, depending on how you want to define it). I have (literally) just flown into London for a long weekend before returning to a beautiful Southern European city with a number of social issues. As a Changemaker, funding manager, Director of Wellbeing and coach, I can’t help but be intensely interested in what is going on. What has made what once was a tight-knit but fairly underprivileged community (especially in the older parts of the city) so angry and resentful? Not everyone, of course; there are winners. But, enough to be noticeable as an outsider. Investment was encouraged to stop the decline of a crumbling city centre; now, the local people feel displaced, ignored and locked out of their steadily changing city. Yet, many still work there - often in low paid roles servicing the tourist industry - knowing that they will never be able to afford to enjoy their city in the way that these strangers can. Worst still, many of the schools and kindergartens etc are set alongside or behind beautiful churches, so this community has to run the gauntlet of strangers turning up to take photos (apparently) of them collecting their kids from school or wherever! Images that may then be posted online with the name of the school, and photos of their kids and other identifiers, for anyone to see. The target is the church, of course, but this just does not work. I totally understand the communities fear, anger and frustration. My conclusion, thus far, is that we (i.e. all of us) need to make a massive conceptual leap in how we value ‘communities’. As I said at the beginning of this post, the city is quite simply exquisite; but, the city does not exist on its own. No ‘place’ does. Every place is the sum total of the people who have gone before, those that are there now, and those that will come in the future. It’s time we begin to see the people of a place as part of its ‘essential splendor’ (however wealthy or not it is). Then, and only then will we begin to centre our change around the critical ingredient for success - the people of that place - and create solutions that work for them, too. Congratulations, The Ubele Initiative; I’m looking forward to seeing this unfold🙌🏽 H🦋

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Did you see it? 🤩 Thank you Look East for spending some time with us last week to help celebrate our 70th year and find out about our new branding and the special people involved in what we do. If you missed it you can watch the full feature on iPlayer👇 https://lnkd.in/efv6Td3C If you want to scroll forward we are at 4:59 minutes. #embracecharity #embracebedford #familieswithdisabilities #disabilityinclusion #disabilityawareness