Thursday 7th September 2017 - lots of meetings; very busy time

Posted 2:00pm

The diary is filling up quickly as we are organising a lot of meetings over the next couple of weeks. Together with my incredibly lengthy to-do list I fear I am going to be working a few nights too!!! But I would much rather have it this way than be sitting down twiddling my thumbs. Nothing like a challenge!

We currently have meetings organised in the next two weeks with:

Hackney Council Employment Team

Islington Council

Borough Relationship Manager for Camden Job Centres

Practice Manager for Highbury Grange Medical Centre

Single Homeless Project - re our October program

Rosemary from our board - down from Scotland - hoping to catch breakfast (please!!)

Telephone meeting with American Fitness expert Jordan Syatt

Voluntary Action Islington - as we start our years Capacity Building Project with them

We are trying to organise meetings with:

Islington NHS CCG - just waiting for a date

Arsenal FC - re Gunners Fund application - just waiting for a date

The BIG Alliance - just waiting for a date (logo at top - details below)

Clarion Housing Group

Peabody Housing Group

British Library - re possible tour

The BIG Alliance (Business for Islington Giving Alliance), on their website say:

"Since 2012, almost 1,000 business volunteers have been placed into a wide range of roles including one-off and ongoing opportunities providing business support in areas such as HR, marketing, legal and business planning, mentoring roles, acting as new board members, and 1,308 have taken part in team challenges. 

This support has been delivered to 124 community, voluntary and not-for-profit organisations across the borough. In addition, through the education programme, 399 pupils from eight institutions have benefited from mentoring relationships.  

As a result of its piloted employment work, the BIG Alliance has also helped 148 people into work"

We feel that we can network with them, as we also need volunteers to help with the expansion of our Izzwalkz initiative.  I am hoping we can have a good relationship.