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ByJohn MayA real delight to visit Witney Buttercross Scout Group this evening and spend time with the Marlborough Cub Pack, one of five Cub packs within the Group. For those who do not know it, Witney Buttercross Scout Group is something of a powerhouse. With more than 400 young people and around 40 adults in uniform,…
Making things happen
ByJohn MayThis blog entry was written to support the Ambition AXA Awards 2011… I’m often asked what makes a successful entrepreneur. I recently posed that question to some of Young Enterprise’s most successful alumnae – people who have taken part in our programmes at school and then gone on to start their own companies or become successful business…
Finland, Finland, Finland
ByJohn MayThere was a Monty Python song once that went something like, “Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to be…”. I don’t remember the rest, though I have shared the sentiment since I was a teenager. And now, at last I’m here – and I have a week of conferencing ahead of me with…
Open all hours
ByJohn MayOpen all hours – an article about flexible volunteering for Volunteering England – February 2006
An evening on the other side…
ByJohn May…of London, that is. To Uxbridge, home of Brunel university, Fighter Command, the Chimes shopping centre, the world’s first electronic calculator and Greater London Middlesex West’s annual dinner for Queen’s Scouts. It took me a ridiculously long time to get there. Friday afternoon is never a good time to travel around the M25, but by…
George Floyd – a personal reflection
ByJohn MayThe death of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers has stunned and outraged the world. On Sunday afternoon, I watched footage of the statue of 17th century slave trader, Edward Colston, being pulled down and rolled into the harbour of the city closest to where I grew up, during a demonstration that…
