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I'm born and bred in South Africa. When I started school, there were no black kids in my class, no black kids in my school. I went through a time that a lot of my friends’ parents found very scary. We had a Referendum, asking if people wanted to change society. And people said Yes,… Continue reading How it started and how it’s going… a bit more about my background
As a CSR team we used to apply to many award schemes relating to our partnerships and impacts. Historically, our organisation had been recognised by prestigious schemes, and it was just something that we had in the diary. Most schemes have a similar deadline each year and we were primed to submit when the time… Continue reading Award applications, a pursuit in vanity?
If you have put your feelers out to explore doing something that makes a difference and loved it, and/or you've reached the point where you want to take the plunge and walk away from your profession for a role in a charity, or in Corporate Social Responsibility, you might be interested in some of lessons… Continue reading What #difference does it make? (2)
It certainly feels like we're hitting a critical mass of people concerned about plastic waste and its impact. This is a great thing and it's amazing to see how quickly change can be brought about and steps can be taken, particularly when people are shown the effect on sea life or a company's customers threaten… Continue reading Think twice
There's an endless supply of advice out there: ten ways to 'this', five top things to 'that'. I have read countless articles like this, but the advice rarely sticks. It's unoriginal, has little impact and is forgotten in no time. There is one piece of advice that has stuck in my mind though, and that… Continue reading Forget it.
I learned some interesting things tonight. I attended a B Corp social and was pleasantly surprised. I learned that the B Corp movement is about more than changing your company's constitutional documents to balance the needs of all stakeholders, not just shareholders. I realised that the movement is also about creating communities of people who… Continue reading Winds of change