Monday 22nd January 2017 - Exciting news!! Lots of work ahead

Posted 12:25pm

Maybe, just maybe, we have finally got our foot in the door. Persistence, as well as developing a good project, has paid off.  The CCG has come back and "potentially" there is a pot of money that "can seed fund" HMHB so that we can prove outcomes.

There is a lot of work ahead, but already meetings are being arranged.  This week I have several. Tomorrow I am hooking up with business mentor Scott, and I am looking forward to planning our upcoming moves. Wednesday is our next meeting with the CCG. This will go over the whole project - how if fits in with the NHS, what we are proposing, plus providing detailed costings.  They need to prepare a report to go to their board for commissioners, but they are also aware of our time constraints. We know what we want to propose, and hopefully it fits in with their thoughts.  But exciting times.

On Friday I am meeting someone from Islington Council's Chief Executive office in regards to a review on how to improve current physical activities in the borough estates. I think we can be heavily involved in that too - and have several ideas to put forward - and surely they must have some kind of budget for that (I want to see if we can use that to expand our Izzwalkz initiative).

I had a solid meeting with Personal Trainer Dean on Saturday, and we will be looking to restart our weekly weekend Personal Training session in February. I am also looking to have one going midweek, and we were both excited at the thought of producing more videos for our Youtube channel.  I am particularly looking forward to improving my fitness levels again, and losing some weight, after a quite sedentary couple of months.

Finally, we submitted our final lot of dormant accounts to Companies House for the last year we were not trading.  It is terrific to know that finally we are a trading business, and one that looks to be growing now.

This is or chance.  Obviously this is still discussion , but it looks like we will get our funding finally and be able to show what we can do. It's taken a few years, thousands of hours of work, and many many meetings. Yay!!