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A Social Business Christmas

Embed from Getty Images Image: Christmas learning from Barcelona Preparing for Christmas we realised that although we have a number of active and complex projects moving ahead into 2017, including more international book…

Motherhood Around the World

Embed from Getty Images Image: Mother and child in Sweden, ready for winter? Joanna Goddard’s U.S. on-line journal, A Cup of Jo, has been publishing a series of articles in recent years about…

Tackling Charity Social Media?

Skillsplatform.org have just published a new, very comprehensive charity social media tookit. The work, by Zoe Amar and David Evans offers the sector a profoundly useful resource to grasp the first principles of…

A Kellet thank you…

Following our recent delivery of Book Fest celebrations at The Kellet School in Hong Kong, the school have just published a short film thanking contributors to the Annual Fund activities across the academic…

Greggs and the Environment

The Greggs Foundation environmental grants programme is now open for applications. The fund is especially interested this year in applications from schools, but your project must meet the Foundation criteria for applications. Individual…

Spare a Thought for…

We awoke as a nation on Friday 25th June 2016 to the incredible announcement that Britain has voted to leave the European Union. How and why ever did that happen? As The Economist…

Awards for Social Enterprise

If you are a social enterprise active for two years or more, and can meet the published criteria, you can now apply to the Social Enterprise Awards 2016. The application process is now…

Book Fest Hong Kong 2016

Sue Martin and the Books go Walkabout team are in Hong Kong this week. (May 2016) Working in partnership with The Kellett School, with generous funding from the school Annual Fund, Sue and…

Books for a school in the Philippines

Books Go Walkabout have recently sent parcels of books to the Philippines with parents from Kellett Care, delivering social projects for Kellett School, Hong Kong. Committee members and parents are travelling to the…

TED Talks Yanis Varoufakis

An intriguing look at society and the power of capitalism and the role of democracy delivered at Tedglobal in Geneva, December 2015. There is a movement in democratic states and change of power,…