Dear Colleagues,

In light of the progress in the reform debate in recent weeks, Paul Moxey of the ACCA, and Eoin McCarthy of Quakers and Business will address this topic with four panelists including John Kay, Prof Andrew Kakabadse, Frank Curtiss and Sean Tully.

We expect very high quality discussion during the panels.  Attendance is free but booking is required

For the full programme and booking details please go to

www.zyen.com/long-finance/long-finance-events/695.html

Eoin McCarthy
Events Working Group convenor
For Quakers and Business
www.qandb.org

Tel: +44 (0) 1684 891 566
Skype: EoinMcCarthy6

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We bring this 24 hour event to your attention. Only 12 places remain, so please book now to avoid disappointment later.

The event will run from Wednesday evening, 3rd – Thurs afternoon, 4th November, 2010. Charney Manor, Oxon

This is a coaching skills programme for all those who coach others as part of their work, whether as owners, coaches or line managers and is offered by practicing coaches Sandra Goddard and Alastair Russell.

We know that people gain most from development programmes based on everyday issues balanced with practical content. This workshop will be highly interactive and will support integration of your learning with exercises and practical application.

OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
• Appreciate the necessity for constructive coaching and feedback as a day to day
requirement in managing their working relationships effectively
• Identify a range of situations where coaching is relevant
• Understand practical approaches underpinned by the GROW Model and feedback tools
• Demonstrate the necessary coaching and feedback skills for personal impact

Proposed draft programme
• Welcome & Introductions
• Working Environment
• Coaching Principles (small group work)
• ‘Silent’ coaching
• Introduction to GROW Model
• Coaching Practice (using GROW)
• Coaching Demonstration
• Coaching Practice (using GROW)
• Personal review & planning
• Warm Down – closing reflections & next steps

Format
• highly participative: a mix of whole and small group discussion.
• practical emphasis using participants’ real-life scenarios
• additional feedback skills component

ACTION:
In advance of the workshop please identify 3 to 4 topics/situations of your choice on which to be coached. The topic matter may be work-related or personal: it’s entirely up to you.

By preparing beforehand we can then work together to focus on:

• the practical application of coaching skills
• addressing your specific needs and maximising your learning.

http://www.qandb.org
Events Working Group
For Quakers and Business
www.qandb.org

Tel: 01684 891 566

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Smartbags.co.uk are proud to be sponsors of the NSPCC Childline Ball 2010. The theme this year is “Childline’s Got Talent”. To celebrate the event smartbags.co.uk have produced a vibrant reusable goodie bag.

The prestigious fundraising event with be held at the newly re-furbished Savoy Hotel in London on Thursday 21st October, 2010. There will be a unique mix of variety show entertainment from stars of the Britain’s Got Talent stage as well as auction.

The auction lots available, include a Caribbean getaway, a table at the Pride of Britian Awards and a chance to own the last ever Big Brother Diary Room chair. All funds raised will go to help the NSPCC protect children across the UK. For more information please visit the NSPCC website: nspcc.org.uk

For quality reusable eco-bags for your next promotional event contact us by email matt@smartbags.co.uk or visit our website http://www.smartbags.co.uk/2010-index.htm 

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Green roofs and wall not only look great, they provide extra growing space for your garden, insluate the buildings they cover, ease rain water run-off and provide extra natural habit for animals and plants. 

The UK’s foremost experts in design and construction of living roofs and walls are joining together to teach a fully comprehensive course at Schumacher College this November.

Dusty Gedge (President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations),
Gary Grant (Chartered Environmentalist and Ecologist with 30 years’ experience) and
John Little (Founder of the Grass Roof Company).

This course looks at living roofs and walls from a macro and a micro perspective, and the role that they can play in meeting the challenges of climate change mitigation, resource depletion and habitat loss.

Participants will develop an in-depth understanding of their design, specification and construction, benefits and challenges, and how they relate to planning for the future.

The course also introduces the concept of ecosystem services for design, how this relates to water catchment management and drainage, ecological networks, green infrastructure planning and the importance of multi-functional environmental design. The course covers the history and design of living roofs and walls, and the creation of locally appropriate wildlife habitats including local ecologies.

By the end of the course participants will have sound knowledge of the benefits and challenges of green roofs and walls, ideas for effective design, and the practical skills necessary to construct them. This course is organised in association with RESET, and will be certificated to count towards your CPD.

Click here for more details

See article from the Guardian this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/10/innovator-dusty-gedge-duncan-kramer-dan-monck-john-little-green-roof

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NOMINATIONS are invited for the inaugural People and Environment Achievement Awards (PEA awards) which will identify the country’s green heroes.

Launched to celebrate practical, engaging initiatives taking place in response to sustainability challenges, the PEA Awards are open to individuals or groups who have made a difference in the community, or shown inspiration, innovation and perseverance in their various sectors.

Sustainability issues involve each and every one of us. There is no single solution, nor can any one company, government or organisation tackle these challenges on their own. But these awards acknowledge that great things are happening, and in lots of different places.

The PEA Awards are being launched by the publishers of the quarterly publication National Geographic Green, in conjunction with Evergreen Events and are sponsored by World Energy Research, Isklar, Kyocera and Aquados Simply.

National Geographic Green’s Editor and Chair of the judging panel, Tony Juniper urges people to help recognise those working hardest for a greener future by making a nomination. “We probably all know someone who fits into one of these categories, so please nominate them to let them know that we do appreciate everything they do for our society.”

Other PEA Award judges include Josephine Fairley, co-founder of Green and Blacks; Richard Hammond, founder of greentraveller.co.uk; Rebecca Hill, international marketing director of National Geographic; Leo Johnson, co-Founder of Sustainable Finance and organic entrepreneur Jo Wood.

The PEA awards will be hosted by television presenter Liz Bonnin on 2nd March 2011 at the stunning National Geographic store in London’s Regent Street.

The PEA Awards recognise excellence in 10 categories :

Arts & Music
Best Energy Saving Idea
Best Earth Saving Idea
Business Person of the Year
Community Award
Campaigner of the Year
Entrepreneur of the Year
Public Sector Award
Sustainability in Sport
Responsible Travel

Nominations close on Friday, December 31.

Enter online or download a form from www.peaawards.com

Our supporters and partners include: Luscombe, Arjowiggins, Gina Conway, Book of Green, Eco Connect, daisygreenmagazine.co.uk, Ethical Junction and Eurydice PR.

Schumacher College has joined with RESET and the UK’s foremost experts in the design and construction of living roofs and walls to present a course this November.

Dusty Gedge has been a campaigner and professional designer and consultant of green roofs for over a decade, and has been invited worldwide to speak on green roofs as ecological habitats and landscapes. He was instrumental in developing and writing UK policy on living roofs, to the extent that London now has a distinct green roof policy and other cities and areas in the UK are developing similar approaches to encourage the uptake of green roofs. He is President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations and lives in south London.

Gary Grant is a chartered environmentalist and ecologist with 30 years’ experience involving several hundred projects of ecological survey and assessment, biodiversity action planning, habitat creation, wetland restoration, regional planning, green infrastructure planning and site design and management. He designed his first green roof in 1992 and is an expert on green roofs and living walls, is a contributor to the London Plan Policy on Living Roofs and Walls and to the Green Roof Guidance for Greater Manchester. Projects have included the Westfield living wall, London 2012 Olympic Park, the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden, the South East Wales Networked Environmental Region, Bedford River Valley Park Framework, Deep Bay Link in Hong Kong, Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi and Education City in Qatar. Gary lives in Devon with his wife and two daughters.

John Little John has always loved plants and what they can do for people. In 1995 he built his own green roof home. This was the catalyst for a career change and in 1998 John founded the Grass Roof Company. He has since designed and built over 40 small green roof buildings in Thurrock, South Essex, often combining the living roofs with habitat walls. John also looks after the green space in several local schools and the Clapton Park Estate, Hackney, East London and in 2007 was awarded Silver Gilt at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the maintenance work they pioneer for the green spaces within social housing, followed by the Sustainable Housing Award in 2008. He now runs workshops on green roof design and construction and with Dusty Gedge is writing a guide to green roofs to be published by Permaculture Publishing. Most recently he launched a range of small green roof shelters based on second hand shipping containers. John lives in Essex with his wife and two children.

This course will look at living roofs and walls, from a macro and a micro perspective, and the role that they can play in the adaptation of our built environment to meet the challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, resource depletion and habitat loss. Participants will develop an in-depth understanding of their design, specification and construction, benefits and challenges, and how they relate to planning for the future.

Information will be provided on the history and design of living roofs and walls, and the creation of locally appropriate wildlife habitats including local ecologies. Participants will also learn about the selection and purchase of suitable plants and substrates to be used on a green roof, as well as a discussion on the availability of materials required for their installation. Part of the course will be devoted to gaining practical experience in their construction, with guidance from the tutor.

By the end of the course, participants will have an overview of the benefits and challenges of green roofs and walls, how they are designed and the practical skills necessary to build your own. Information will be provided on the day in the form of a CD-ROM, the DIY Guide to Small Scale Green Roof Construction. The course is led by the UK’s foremost experts in design and construction of living roofs and walls.

RESET will be issuing certication for this course that could be used to count towards CPD.

For more information, or to book a place, please go to http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/using-living-roofs-and-walls-a-macro-and-a-micro-perspective

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The EcoVillage, the Kent based exhibition and events organisation, has been shortlisted for the Environmental Awards for Kent Businesses.

The awards, sponsored by Kent County Council, Kent Highway Services, Business Support in Kent CIC, the Environment Agency, the Kent Messenger Group, and E.ON, recognise and reward the innovative environmental and community work undertaken by Kent businesses. 

Within the Environment Awards, there are five themed categories;

• Environmental Engagement,
• Innovative Partnerships,
• Achievements in Resource Efficiency,
• Commitment to the Environment &
• Sustainable Business Management. 

The shortlisted businesses for the 2010 event are as follows:

• Sust Ltd – The EcoVillage, Whitstable·  
• Ashford International Hotel, Ashford  
• 3663. First for Foodservice, Paddock Wood  
• Rough Old Wife Cider LLP, Canterbury
• H+H UK Limited, Sevenoaks
• Geo-Mole Limited, Faversham
• Nordic Recycling Ltd, Gillingham
• London Beach Hotel, Ashford
• Skill Net Group, Canterbury
• Directline Structures, Ashford

The 2010 Environment Awards for Kent Business awards ceremony will be held at Salomons, Tunbridge Wells, on Thursday 23 September 2010, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed!

For more information on the Environment Awards for Kent Business, click here

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Specialist artisans Eloise Grey tailoring and carréducker bespoke shoes are launching a new tweed shoe collaboration at the Goodwood Revival in September.

carréducker Winkers for Eloise Grey are louche classics with a contemporary take on the Long Island beach or English house shoe. Featured in Eloise Grey tweeds sourced from the Isle of Mull, they epitomise the relaxed glamour of the ‘30s – the era of Brideshead Revisted and The Great Gatsby – with elegant lines and a raffish, fringed top edge. Crafted in England they are available in Cream & Fawn Diamond, organic Blue Woad & Cream Herringbone and organic Silver Herringbone.

The shoes complement Farnham-based, Eloise Grey’s pared down, timeless tailoring and aesthetic. She works in fine fabrics that embody sustainable qualities resulting in a product that is to be treasured. Eloise will be showing her Autumn collection of tweeds jackets and coats for ladies and gentlemen. Inspired by literature, paying particular homage to the Bloomsbury set  the collection includes style such as the Woolf coat, after Virginia Woolf. Alongside this she will present her collection of fine linens blouses inspired by Persephone Books and plain wool or linen trousers (the Vita breeches) to complement the tweeds.

Where Eloise is Bloomsbury inspired, carréducker are Bloomsbury based.

Trained by a master shoemaker for John Lobb, the bespoke shoemaking experts celebrate the natural qualities of the materials they work with and are showing a selection of shoes and boots handsewn in their studio in the finest box calf and exotics. They have also incorporated tweed and canvas into a capsule collection of new bespoke styles and offer Winkers in Harris and Dashing Tweeds.

carréducker are on hand throughout Goodwood Revival to discuss retro detailing and to take orders/ measurements for bespoke shoes and belts. Their service includes creating lasts individual to each customer, design and leather consultation, at least one fitting and the completed shoes delivered with bespoke shoe trees.

Eloise Grey and carréducker are showing on stand number 32.

For further information and high res. images:

Eloise Grey: E: contact@eloisegrey.com; T: 07910 963737

carréducker: E: cd@carreducker.com; T:020 7813 0093; M: 07710 077404

EDITOR’S NOTES:

Eloise Grey tailoring is in materials sourced for their particular aesthetic, sustainability and artisan qualities. Behind each fabric is a story and an approach to making which emphasises British craftsmanship. Eloise’s customers are individuals who wish to tell their own story with their clothes, such as Priscilla Carluccio who has commissioned the Eloise Grey ‘Elizabeth’ coat for her Brompton Road boutique, Few & Far. Stockists: www.eloisegrey.com; Eloise Grey, Farnham Maltings, Farnham (by appointment); Few & Far, Brompton Road, London, Haleluja, Brussels. (Menswear), Ardalanish Weavers, Isle of Mull.

carréducker specialise in bespoke shoes, continuing the centuries-old English craft of handsewn shoemaking, by designing and making shoes for an array of international clients. Keen to pass on their skills and the great benefits of handsewn shoes, they teach two-week intensive shoemaking courses in New York and London. They also manufacture the Winkers slip-on in England, in a selection of hand woven British Isles’ tweeds. Winkers stockists: Wolf & Badger, Notting Hill, London; Leffot, West Village, New York; Brogue, Geneva; carreducker Bespoke: carréducker, Bloomsbury, London (by appointment only); Thom Sweeney, Mayfair, London; Stowers Bespoke, Savile Row, London; Marsha Hall, Great Bookham, Surrey.

The Goodwood Revival runs from 17 – 19 September 2010 at Goodwood, Chichester, Sussex. A magical step back in time, this is a unique chance to revel in the glamour and allure of motor racing. The Revival is the world’s most popular historic motor race meeting and the only event of its kind to be staged entirely in the nostalgic time capsule of the 1940s, 50s and 60s that relives the glory days of Goodwood Motor Circuit. It is the biggest and best historic motor racing party of the year.

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You will be given a better insight to our phenomenal Teak projects in Brazil, that are yielding our existing clients 10-20% per annum.

Date: 28th July 2010
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm
Location: St Clements House, 27-28 Clements Lane, London, EC4N 7AE

RSVP: As places get booked up very quickly, please ensure you RSVP before 5pm on the 28th of July 2010. Email: darren@globalforestryinvestments.com or call to book your place on 020 7754 0493. View our website for more information.

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