ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Partnership News

BME support flowers in Cambridgeshire

We are delighted as a partnership to be the web publishers for the new information directory for ABMEC,  a Cambridgeshire based CIC, supporting the BME community in the county. ABMEC is a lottery…

The Collected Works

We are really pleased to have been jointly instrumental in creating a new collaborative professional partnership in Collected Works. This new group exercises the creative energy of SmithMartin and WilsonGoodchild. The latter is…

World Reader and St Jordi’s Day in Barcelona

  We had just met with Zev from the World Reader organisation at a World Literacy Foundation conference in Oxford. Some concepts just make sense form the start and this was our feelings…

A Better Beginning:
Easing the Cost of Childcare

An interesting report from The Social Market Foundation explores a new way to support the affordability of formal childcare for working parents. It is based on a similar approach to the student loans…

Sure Start Children’s Centres
– still at the heart of communities

    Some startling figures emerging about Children’s Centre closures…     In November the government confirmed that 124 Sure Start centres had closed, (Children and Young People Now). In addition, there is…

Daycare Trust Conference
November 2011

Childcare policy and the wider role of the community was the focus of the Daycare Trust annual conference in London on 22 November. A subject one would expect to have been well and…

Learning a language…learning lots more too!

We have always liked the Open Culture web site, which is probably the very best of free learning and education media resources on the internet. We are particularly keen to embed translation into…

Social entrepreneur – five cornerstones

  Starting a business, social or otherwise, is a leap of faith. Faith in yourself or your team, faith in your product or service and faith in your audience, customers or community of…

Forest Schools at Children’s Centres

We’re going on a dinosaur hunt! We are working with a children’s centre in the London Borough of Wandsworth and developing the Forest school project. To really fire some imaginations and persuade people…

Startup Britain – a useful web resource?

The ‘Startup Britain’ web site has the support of the Prime Minister – but is it, as some commentators have cynically described a government backed web link-farm – offering already available resources to…