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Showing posts with label Week Update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week Update. Show all posts
The most important thing to do before building your website
This week, I built two different websites for two different projects.it gave me plenty of time to reflect on the steps to build a successful website. The most important thing to consider is your business model:
Publishing Publishing Publishing
What happened this week?
I published many resources online for people to pick upon and disseminate.
Our Quetzal Stories of Change event and the list of artists and organisations who will display at the event is on Quetzal Website. On Monday I will send the invitations to all and disseminate across the stratosphere. I also shared the results of our community discussion on what we can do to raise awareness in BAME communities about the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.
I had a great meeting with the team if Let's talk about sexual violence about creating a bigger impacts with their exhibition both in Leicester and Liverpool by paying to a pot of fundings and determining some key activities. Watch this space!
I had a great conversation with a funder about the questions to ask oneself when applying fundings. To give you a bit of a back story, I applied for some funding to tour the exhibition in Leicestershire. We received only part of the funding to support with our counselling activities.the main reasons were that sheer amount of applicants forcing the funders to ask themselves which activities offered by the applicants support the most vulnerable people. In our application, cousnelling was the activity supporting the most vulnerable whilst the exhibition was targeting the general public which may not be vulnerable as such. It was such a great feedback which will help me moving forward in developing better applications.
Other things, I worked on at Quetzal is our upcoming litter picking event organised by one of our volunteer community connectors beginning of October. I am so looking forward to this. Especially as I am planning one event like it in Braunstone Frith. Let me know if you would like to be involved?
In the Leicester Fixers world, I am posting everyday on our page and engaging in conversation about Leicester Fixers development. One discussion is about how can we make Leicester Fixers more accessible to women and children? The other is if we were to write a book about repair to generate more funds - who would be the main audience? I have to think more about that.
Other things are slowly developing in the background and I can't wait to share with you more when the time comes. We are with partners claiming more space to create change, we are taking that space and will expand. That is something to look out for!!
Looking forward to hearing how things on your side and how we can collaborate some more. All the best. Have a great weekend!
Back to Work, Holiday glow, no more meetings
After a lovely weekend in a lodge in a middle of the forest, I wore the holiday glow proudly at the serie of meetings lined up for me on my day back in the office.
As the day back went on, my notebook became filled up by notes to process, more emails added to my to do list to send for Monday and my work hours just vanished...
I thought:
1. No more meetings on my way back from holidays
2. I shall limit the number of meetings to one a week maximum
3. I shall always ask for an agenda
4. Delegate so others write minutes
What else?
Climate Action Leicester Leicestershire, Climate Vigil Invitation Saturday 21st 12-1pm
Leicester Fixers received an invitation to join
- Climate Action Leicester Leicestershire for the launch of their Climate vigil on Saturday 21st 12-1pm at the Clock Tower, Gallowtree Gate in Leicester.
- The vigil are silent, wearing Black or White, and are to show and signal that local groups care and stand together about the issue of climate change and are concerned for all the people and places suffering from climate change across the world.
- Are you joining?
Mentoring is critical for leadership development
Mentoring is critical for leadership development. This week I was reminded of the latter after meeting with my mentor. She has been supporting me for the last 3-4 months in defining further ehat type of leader I want to be and how I want to relate to people around me.
It supports with confidence, greater trust in your decision and give a great sounding board when wondering how to navigate a specific issue. They share experience and expertise to guide us in our next steps towards greatness.
My mentor suggested that I shall go through a small exercise called the Golden Circle introduced by Simon Sinek to define my why and revisited from time to time. She also said that it is a great exercise to do with a team to ensure vision and purpose are aligned. It became clear to both of us that I had many projects and I needed to think more deeply about my purpose and it will help me to better redefine my relationships with others.
Do you have a mentor?
How do you find it?
Have you use Simon Sinek Golden Circle. If you did not. Here is a small video for you to watch. how leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek on Ted
Meeting with FlowFinder
Leicester Fixers met this week with FlowFinder to discuss areas of focus and next steps to consolidate what has been and do better moving forward.
In the next few months, Leicester Fixers will do the following activities:
- redefine their vision, mission, objectives and value with the input of all the fixers. Here is a first draft
- Consider their delivery focus against their aims, objectives, funding streams and operations
- Develop their delivery plans
A meeting will be organised to discuss some of the elements with people working together to repair and mend items.
Marlene Reid Centre with Quetzal
Quetzal Stories of Change Exhibition opens on the 18th September 2021. I am well looking forward to pulling it all together. One of my goals is to tour all or part of the exhibition in various venues in and out of Leicester. In this process, I identified some funding to support the tour as well as venues that could host the exhibition. This week on Wednesday in particular, I had a field trip and visited the Marlene Reid Centre, a long standing community centre in Coalville. On the Wednesday, they host a food market with a cooking station, a café, they also sell clothes uniform. They invited me to fill a bag of veg for £1, browse the charity and their furniture shop and even snacks on some lovely Turkish food. Stories were shared with me about how women in the area used the centres and how significant it is to educate about trauma, sexual and domestic violence. They had in the past training with Women's Aid s uprooting female survivors on their journey. Anywoo, we agreed on the space in the main entrance to host the exhibition. I returned home, satisfied. I tied up further lose ends for the tour and arrange few more meetings with the University of Leicester as well as North West Community Safety Partnership which are planning an exhibition in November. We will also be looking at having few pieces there too.
What else at Quetzal
The London Landmarks half-marathon is happening this Sunday. M and I have been discussing running it for the next edition.. Are you to follow.
The NCS team did not pick us this week, still we shared a video of our volunteers with them.
We submitted our quarterly report to the our Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group.
I am considering completing afundraising qualification and here come the question is it better to complete the qualification from the FSI or the Chartered Institute of fundraising? If you've got an answer for that please tell me!
Eugenie Bitty Arts - Developing Collaboration
A team meeting is in order, yet the team was not ready to engage this week. One of the collaborators contracted COVID and oh well Summer is here. It allowed me to focus on fostering our relationship with T. It led to the development of documentation that we will be able to disseminate to our network. After the encounter, I thought that the next team meeting, I will invite T. to come along to gauge the energy and see how we will work together. Other elements, I asked for some quotes for the print and consciously waiting for their reply.
Tools with Leicester Fixers
Leicester Fixers won some time ago a £500 voucher to get tools from Ifixit. It was a thrilling gift to receive. This week, I moved forward in defining the toolkit we will order by making some enquiries to Loughborough Fixers as well as Leicester Fixers. Thanks to those who came back to me, I will study your reply and make an order. Even though, there is no plan as such to have any repair event in Leicester in the upcoming year, Thinking about it is a start in possibly doing something about it.
I also had a discussion with Durgha from Flow Finder about her coaching consultancy services I am considering to use to support Leicester Fixers. She suggested for me to restart our newsletter updating our mailing list about our activities and gather a bit energy there.
About my personal repair, I returned to Woodgate Computer this week to fetch a data stick and bring some mobile phone. I had four in total. Amongst the four, they took three to give me a quote. Amongst the three, they told me only one is worth repairing. Oh well, I may fix the rest though Leicester Fixers.
What about you? How did your repair week go?
Readjusting priorities - Week update
A good cold helps readjusting priorities. Your mind is such in a state of confusion that they are only few things that you can possibly hold onto to get some sense of grounding. Did I sleep this week more than ever and somewhat been more productive than ever. How just changing the way I deal with my emails.
My experiment dealing with all my emails on Monday is paying off. This week I was able to start writing an important piece of work that I have been postponing for ages and continuing some home transformation projects. I have way more time than ever before by choosing not to interrupt myself with emails during the week. I feel that I have more control over my work and this feels great. The extra time did make me feel at loss at some level and I am currently readjusting my priorities and bringing some new things in.
At Quetzal
I have been writing a funding application to tour Quetzal Stories of Change for people across Leicestershire to learn more about sexual violence. I will visit some of the venues next week which express interest for the exhjbition. I am well looking forward to that. I did some analysis of Quetzal last quarter, we increased by 11% the number of referrals and will be looking to apply to more funding. Finally I listened to 8 groups of teens presenting their project ideas for NCS, from sensory gardens, pencil cases to podcasts and story book, the group of young people had such great enthusiasm and focus wanting to do things well. It was truly enjoyable.
At Eugenie Bitty Arts
The whole team is creating more space for change, decluttering and clarifying priorities and intentions. We are getting there.
At Leicester Fixers
we went to woodgate computer this week for some data recovery, got some chair reupholstered and finally got a necklace fixed. Well pleased with this. We are also moving forward recovering some fundings to restart some activities. Hopefully soon we will be able to restart some activities.
This is my week update. Hope you had a good week too and planning a great weekend. I hope we will be able to connect again soon x
More there is always more - Week update
This week many changes occurred
First, I returned to Marle's Feed for updates and writing. Last week, I let go of Instagram to update on my weekly progress to recentralise my thoughts on my main blog. I started this blog back in 2012. There are probably more than 400 entries dealing with projects such as Positive Money and the Money workshop, Footpaths Leicester, The Green Festival of Making and Mending as well as Leicester Fixers, plus plethora of other writings. I did not write much about the Breaking the Silence Initiative at Quetzal. Though I intend to update the blog with past entries.
The return was motivated by conversations with my uncle, Emile Biti Abi, author and thinker, recently published author Joyce Henry and my dear friend and artist Kajal Nisha Patel from Lightseekers. I thought let's consolidate and integrate all my writings on one central platforms.
The second important change is dealing with all my emails and online communication with collaborators on the Monday. The move was inspired by re-skimming through Tim Ferris 4-hour Work Week. The move allowed me to do more focused and productive work laying foundation for new upcoming projects.
More changes happened at many other levels, letting go of what it was in order to give space to what's new.
Below, I present some of what happened this week with some of my projects
This week at Quetzal
I had a productive conversation with Family Action about their project raising awareness about childhood sexual abuse in South Asian Communities. We both shared our challenges in term of engaging with communities where the stigma associated with sexual abuse is strife and where community leaders are too reluctant to open their doors. I look forward to support as best as I can their project in raising awareness in Leicester South Asian Community.
I went with a volunteer to visit a property by Rushey Field Park to ask if it was possible to paint on their property for a mural project with students. We had the most amazing conversation with the property owner. He did not agree with the idea of painting on a wall. He considered the original brick as having so much beauty and character. He asked me ''Would you let anyone paint on your house?'. I smiled uncomfortable. My gut said ''Hell no''. He said to me so ''if you cannot do it on your own home, how this could be a good idea to paint on someone else house. if tag comes on this wall, he will most probably irritate someone eventually and get tagged on''. He said ''if you want to do a mural, do it in side a building for people to see and then discuss. this makes more sense''. He suggested other places in Leicester to paint on. He went on and said that is selling his home and if I find a buyer then I can paint on the house.
The discussion was rich and full of insights on the need to do some intergenerational work to bring the young with the old, the need of worshipping mothers for all the hard work they do in their community and so much more.
As I walked in Leicester, I started to look at the walls and the shop front in a new eye an thought that we could instead of painting on a wall instead adorn a shop front. It will make more sense to do so. There is this shop next to Quetzal that I am thinking would be great to start with.
I also got interviewed by Rob Watson as part of Leicester Stories Podcast on Building Back Together. It was a great opportunity to think in more details about the process of transforming the gift of a story into various formats of dissemination. Every time, I go through this process I feel closer to my father and his work as a storyteller and theatre director. I miss him dearly.
This week at Eugenie Bitty Arts
Ongoing discussion with the team are occurring about our next exhibition in May 2022. I am also fostering relationship with collaborators in the UK to organise a trip to France for the main exhibition next year. I am also in seriously looking for a mentor to support me in this journey, I hope to find her or him soon. Visit the website and susbscribe to a newsletter for receiving in your mailbox the invitation or any other news
This week at Lightseekers
Our review of the Ways to Wellbeing project continue with this week costing appropriately our labour. I am so pleased knowing that Kajal Nisha Patel is writing extensively about the project in an academic format and I look forward to read about her reflection further in light of the literature in Museum and Cultural Studies.
More, there is always more...
So here it is for this week, a quick updates of some what happened. I pleased with all the work we are putting through to support changes
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