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Seafarers UK – White water rafting

Published on June 10, 2010 By Ian Burgess

Today  I meet with Ewan Hastings from Seafarers UK he was explaining their “Corporate Partnerships” and some of the events they have lined up in the future, as a result I am looking to get a team together for the White Water Rafting event is anyone interested?

Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset

Published on January 22, 2010 By Ian Burgess

Hans Rosling clearly presents information which shows the changes over time in the health and poverty in the world, the visual style and presentation of the data is exceptional. Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis [...]

Football Strip Appeal For Ghana

Published on January 13, 2010 By Ian Burgess

Long term contact of mine, Mike Kean of Ask Training, has sent out a request for logistic support for football equipment to be shiped to Ghana. To see the work they are doing watch Brite’s Story. If you can support this please contact Mike by email at mike@asktraining.co.uk.

IBC Scotland and Challenges World Wide (CWW) Collaboration

Published on November 4, 2009 By Ian Burgess

As you may know IBC Scotland has adopted Challenges World Wide as their social enterprise of choice.  This decision was made not only on the basis of CWW being a very worthwhile cause but also in view of the potential to benefit both CWW and IBC Scotland.  These links include real professional development opportunities for [...]

Challenges World Wide

Published on April 24, 2009 By Ian Burgess

Just finished a meeting with Eoghan Mackie from Challenges World Wide, where we were discussing the development of some CSR offerings to Support Challenges. The basic ideas that we have put together we well received in the meeting this morning and the look like they will fly so watch this space.

Big Issue Foundation

Published on April 22, 2009 By Ian Burgess

Today I had a brief meeting with Gill Levy at Thrive event in Glasgow, it appears to be the same Foundation projects and cash generation process like recycling old mobile phones but one thing made me stop and take note which was “With Kids” which can be found at http://withkids.org.uk/.

Real Corporate Social Responsibility

Published on April 21, 2009 By Ian Burgess

Over the last few years I have had involvement in product development some in the growing area of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) products. At first glance and in reality many people take CSR as a joke or something that they pay lip service to just to tick boxs in tenders and on promotional material. You can [...]