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Why Charity Work is Good for Your Business

Earlier this year I decided that I wanted to run the Oxford Half Marathon on 11 October. I contacted some of the charities that had places and asked if I could run for them. The Oxfordshire...

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Is it Worth Taking on an Apprentice?

Recently I went to a business development workshop with various business leaders from the local area. During the workshop the subject of apprentices came up and whether or not it is worth all the hassle to...

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CSR Update for Appletree

Corporate Social Responsibility is something we hear more and more about in business. Instead of keeping our heads down and just working hard for our own ends, CSR is about looking into the wider community and...

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CSR: A lesson learned by listening

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Very interesting phenomenon happened the last time I went to the Compton Day Care Centre for my CSR Assignment in Listening. I arrived to greet my service users, and met with...

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CSR: Frequent visits loosens tongues and makes listening easier

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] It?s beginning to get quite noticeable how the service users are getting used to me turning up on Wednesday mornings at the Compton Day Care Centre. I get big smiles when...

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CSR: Listen for the unexpected from the most unlikely of sources

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] For my next visit to the Compton Day Centre as part of my CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities, I decided to see if I could talk to one particular service user who...

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CSR: Listen first and speak afterwards

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Another installment of my CSR placement at Compton Day Centre; you can read part 1 and part 2 here to catch up. I arrived to find a state of excitement: they...

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CSR: If you don?t listen you may miss something vital

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I started my first CSR (corporate social responsibility) placement at the Day Care Centre in Compton on Wednesday 19 January (read all about it here). The idea was to ?develop my...

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CSR update for Appletree

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] During the spring of 2010 we started looking at doing more CSR ? Corporate Social Responsibility. We produced a report (click here to read it ? it?s on our website). In...

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Why I’m going to prison

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Now that Dianne has completed her CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) project, helping to organise a really successful volunteer day in Newbury in June, we thought it was time to start thinking about...

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