Emergency Assistance for Flood Affected People in Pakistan
We are all aware of the DEC campaign, however donating direct to a charity working in the Pakistan area could avoid your funds being misdirected and used for administrative purposes. In recent weeks, the worst floods in Pakistan’s history have swept away homes, possessions and livelihoods leaving approximately 14 million people living exposed to the [...]
Conduct Becoming
I did not choose a mindful and humanitarian leadership style just because I’m a good guy, although I like to think I am, but because that’s what I believed would work.
2010 and the effects of the global economy on Ethnic Supplies
A week in June at the BBC Gardener’s World exhibition served to reinforce what Ida is aware has been happening so much already this year at events, exhibitions, school fairs and from enquiries to the Ethnic Supplies website: (The mainly ladies of) ‘middle England’ types want the quality of goods and workmanship Ida’s ladies provide; [...]
Ida and her vision
I first met Ida a couple of years ago and couldn’t help but be aware of that grace and almost fluid movement that comes naturally to some women while others of us (okay: me) manage to trip over our own toes. She also has that semi regal bearing and a hauteur about her that can [...]
How proud you are to show “Britishness”, when you’re an American…
My sister’s visit from her home in the US has reminded me about how important national pride is – and how I seem somehow to have lost much of my sense of what that means in recent years.
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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