The Touchwood Project

I’m still on a high from yesterday, when the 4th of July saw our Board declare independence from boring, endless, I’m-losing-the-will-to-live meetings and I thought I’d share some of the tips we learned on how to transform meetings from the ones where you feel utterly drained and bored to ones that leave you full of energy and excitement (really). Our challenge was to sit down and at long last come up with a… Read the rest of this article >>

Malcolm and I attended a free course run by the Scottish Social Enterprise Academy called “Prove, Improve and Account: Social Accounting” last Wed and Thurs and learned some good stuff that could help you and your social enterprise with funding and motivation. What is social accounting? The idea is to measure your organisation’s performance in 3 areas: social impact environmental impact economic impact… Read the rest of this article >>

If you’re a social enterprise — business with a social purpose whose profits go entirely towards that purpose — in the UK, then you might want to think about becoming a Community Interest Company. What is a CIC? Community interest companies (“CICs”) are a new form of limited company set up by the UK government which may be able to help you get more funding, advice and trust from your community and potential… Read the rest of this article >>

If you know what you’re naturally good at, and do that every day, you are 300% more likely to be successful in your work and have a better quality of life. That’s according to research conducted by Gallup of over 10 million people over the past 30 years. Out of these findings, they’ve developed StrengthsFinder, an online survey to assess your top 5 “strengths” out of 34 different possibilities. What we’re… Read the rest of this article >>