24th July 2025 | Employment
What is a community? I saw an article recently which questioned the community I live in. The woman who wrote it had lived in my town in her childhood (many decades ago) and had recently visited in the guise of promoting a book she had written, a book based here. She...7th July 2025 | Employment
Washing clean the past but opening up a way into what new future? I survived that meeting and walked out, then immediately had to run to the toilets and be sick. This has never happened to me before, or since. At the start of this tale, I said I was...26th June 2025 | Employment
BLOG – Part Two A welcome change, which led from bad to worse, not better Eventually, we started to return to the office part-time and what an absolute delight that was… …finally, I was able to get to know my colleagues properly and that was also when some...19th June 2025 | Employment
BLOG – Part One Hi, I’m Susan and, over the past year, I’ve navigated some of the toughest professional challenges I’ve ever had to face. It actually started several years previously and looking back the red flags were there, clear as day, but I...29th May 2025 | Employment
Some days, I wake up and wonder, what was I thinking? This path I chose in building a social enterprise on my own definitely isn’t glamorous. As I sit in my office in the garden, by myself with radio 2 to keep me company, I sometimes have the think back to the...
21st October 2024 | Employment
Is it really an exodus and what can be done to stop it? In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend of women in midlife leaving the workplace. How do we know? On a local level, the CPCA and Rand report explores the reasons in Cambridgeshire, but is there more...