Tell all your friends! The Funding Network is turning five and they’re having a party. And, I’ve just found out that Hackney Laces will be one of the three projects listed above, pitching for funding. I’m both nervous and excited and would really love to have some familiar faces in the crowd, so please do… Continue reading YTFN’s 5th Birthday Bash
Category: community
The Thing About Charities
Dan Pallotta, great talk. In my limited six year existence working in the charity sector, I can relate to and agree with the vast majority of points covered in this TED talk. Very often when I would tell people I worked for a charity they’d asked me if I worked as a volunteer. When I… Continue reading The Thing About Charities
Crimes Against the Environment
When I was a kid, my sister and I used to love Red Truck Tuesday. It was the day when a special red rubbish truck would go around the neighbourhood and collect peoples big unwanted items to divert them from landfill. Missy and I used to find all sorts of treasures just siting on the… Continue reading Crimes Against the Environment
Crowdfunding Atheletes
I do love a good crowdfunding platform, and Pursuit is my most recent find. It’s a site that allows amateur athletes in Canada the chance to gain support to achieve their athletic goals. Athletes can create a profile, share their ambitions and experience and then offer something, called a ‘Give back’ for their supporters on a… Continue reading Crowdfunding Atheletes
Feed and Read
Since taking a sabbatical from 11-aside football on Sundays I’ve been looking for something to fill the void, something to occupy those extra 6 hours on my weekend. And I think I’ve found it. Feed and Read. Cake and books. Best sunday ever, basically.
The Dinner Party
If teleportation was real, I would teleport to Toronto on November 19th to go to this Dinner Party. In addition to the evening’s proceeds supporting a great cause – The Stop Community programmes – my very talented, very clever sister Missy will be one of the guest chefs. I won’t embarrass her too bad here, but I will say… Continue reading The Dinner Party
Meet Hackney Laces
I’d like to introduce you to Hackney Laces, a group of fabulous young women I have the privilege of spending time with. Speaking of fabulous women, the super talented and painfully modest Zoe Quirk made this video for us. In her spare time she edited hours of footage to make this little video as an introduction to… Continue reading Meet Hackney Laces
Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We
10 years ago, Facebook was still an idea and Google wasn’t used as a verb. Encyclopaedias lived in libraries, and tweet was the sound a bird made. And now, the internet more so than any other platform in the past decade has changed the way we connect to the world, how we do business, receive… Continue reading Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We
This is What a Footballer Looks Like
It’s incredibly frustrating when you tell people you play football and they respond with ‘why?’ or a series of other questions. Women playing football feels like a foreign concept to many – it must be, given the things I get asked quite regularly as of late. These questions range from, “but your boyfriend plays, right?”… Continue reading This is What a Footballer Looks Like
Hackney Laces One Year On
It has been exactly a year since I was given an Unltd level 1 Award to set up the project now known as Hackney Laces. And a good year it has been. What began as me and 7 girls on rainy November nights has now turned into ‘we’ and a small army of players. In… Continue reading Hackney Laces One Year On