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Good Evening Comrades!

Had a very cultured Saturday evening thanks to Janine Howlett – the marketing manager of The London Philharmonic Orchestra. If you were not aware Janine sent a special discount offer out to (ASpire) staff and volunteers to listen to the LPO perform Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 2 and Tchaikovsky Suite 3 at The Brighton Dome this [...]

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The Impetus Strategy Day, 2008

I’m always anxious before strategy days. They are an important part of the life of our organisation and a lot of time and preparation goes into them. This year there was almost 30 people there. The theme was on promoting and sustaining volunteering and we looked both at what we are doing internally and what [...]

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Community University Partnership Project, CUPP

G’day comrades, I had lunch with Dave Wolff, director of Brighton University CUPP, last Friday at Mithras House canteen. I didn’t go for the cod and chips on the menu because my scuba diving has demonstrated to me how seriously damaged the seas are by over fishing and cod is an endangered species. CUPP carried [...]

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What I think the Blog can achieve

I have a vision, hope, delusion that we can improve and develop the bonding of our Impetus community using the blog and social networking. At the moment most contact with volunteers goes up and down on a one to one basis with volunteer co-ordinators or project leaders. The exception to this will be office volunteers [...]

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Tumbleweed Moments

The blog is currently empty and only tumbleweed is blowing through. Steve, Naomi, Sarah and Andrew – you are all now blog authors, which means that using your WordPress login you can write new posts and comment on ones that are already there. What should we talk about on this blog? Maybe… Questions/thoughts/ideas about why [...]

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Here we go!

Congratulations to Naomi who has become the Impetus Blog’s first Author and now feels the huge weight of expectation as we await her first contribution (only joking… or am I?). Feel free to publish any thoughts or comments (however daft you might think they are) about the way in which we might involve people (our [...]

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The Impetus Blog starts here

Welcome to the Impetus Blog, where members, staff, volunteers and others associated with the work of Brighton & Hove Impetus can get involved and discuss things. Please feel free to post whatever you like as long as it isn’t rude, abusive or insulting. Any comments that make a positive contribution to the blog are welcomed [...]

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