I’ve got an incredibly annoying friend called Geoff. If I am chatting to a new acqaintance at a party, he’ll come up behind me and say, “Soph’s Mum is the Sheriff of Nottingham, you know. If you’re not careful she’ll set her henchmen on you”. He, inexplicably, thinks this is Read more…
Two and a half years ago, in May 2007, Sophia and I started looking at extending the I’m a Councillor event. We started a budget for I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here. We applied to the Wellcome Trust to fund a pilot. That kicked off in June 2008. Read more…
Yesterday Sophia and I were at the Wellcome Trust presenting and being interviewed as part of our bid for 2 years funding on I'm a Scientist, Get me out of Here. The committee consisted of 6 very intelligent and experience people and they asked searching questions. It reminded me of Read more…
I like the Wellcome Trust. They funded the I'm a Scientist pilot project. They funded the Debate Kits extension. But that's not why I like them. They invited Sophia and I to a Grantholders' Networking Day at their Euston Road HQ today. They have a lovely building. Light, airy, efficient, Read more…
Number Ten Downing Street wrote a response to the petition “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to release the address and postal code data held within the Royal Mail’s PAF to the public.” In short they are saying, "not our problem, talk to Postcomm". Some feel this is a Read more…
In the space of one week Twitter has flexed it muscles and had a significant effect that organisations public and private should wake up to. On Tuesday news came out of the injunction imposed upon the Guardian preventing them from publishing about a Parliamentary Question or even the fact they Read more…
The Royal Mail is stifling innovation and increasing costs for this country through charging for the Postcode Address File (PAF) at monopoly prices. Local Authorities who provide the Royal Mail with some of the raw data for the PAF in the form of details of new streets are amongst the Read more…
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I'm not a natural evaluator. I'm too impatient and just want to get on with the next project. But the more we do as a company the more importance I place on evaluation. And looking back we've actually been quite good at it. Every year every I'm a Councillor client Read more…