Monday 9th August 2010, 17:40Who Knows BestI have made a TV show called Who Knows Best - in which i help an amazing young man called john find his first job - Hope you enjoy the show.
Remember it is TV.
John and I worked together for Six weeks - not 48 minutes!!!!
John and i went on a long journey together and many people joined us on the way.
Before i even met john i had pulled together a crack team of A4e staff to tell me of their best ideas for someone who finds themselves long term unemployed in London.
The ace team know that certain traits are often to be found in someone that has been un.. Emma HarrisonView Complete Post Monday 9th August 2010, 16:57John - Who Knows BestJohn Is amazing... Who Knows Best - Channel 4
How many John's are out there - undiscovered - hidden from view - just waiting and wondering how they are going to get their chance?
What should we be doing to find John - get to know John - and really really support him in finding and making the most of his chance?
Everything and anything. The benefits are felt by everyone.
ps. I spoke to John's employer two days ago. At a board meeting they discussed how they can find more John's to train up. They know that he would never ever have made it through thei.. Emma HarrisonView Complete Post Wednesday 30th June 2010, 16:22Welfare ReformsI get asked a lot what my thoughts are on this, and where A4e aims to be, in the context of the increased press interest. I’ve done this now for nearly 20 years and there are moments in time when you see a number of threads coming together. You think ‘right, time to bring all these things I’ve seen and experimented and succeeded and failed with together to make a difference’. Now is that time. Why?
A4e delivers lots of services. They are all centred around the needs of our ‘consumer’. People still ask me why so varied? Answer – the n..
Mark LovellView Complete Post Tuesday 29th June 2010, 12:55Budget 2010 and Public ServicesThought it was about time I posted a couple of comments on the Budget. There is lots of speculation about the impact on public services – that’s the bit I am focused on in the context of making an impact on the public sector borrowing requirement. So, what can we do?
At Board meetings of the RDA and the PCT (I’m a Non-Exec Director on both) one of the consistent points I have been making over the last 18 months is that we need to explore ‘new ways’ of doing things. However, we can only succeed in that regard if decision makers in Whitehall are a..
Mark LovellView Complete Post Thursday 27th May 2010, 16:53New friends at the Chimney House SheffieldThe Marketing Department had a great brand focus session last week at the Chimney House in Kelham Island, Sheffield.
It's one of those really fantastic places that makes you realise how many hidden gems are dotted around this city.
Sally Clark who runs the Chimney House had her dog 'Mini' sat at the desk with her. She made us feel very welcome (Sally that is not Mini!) with fresh coffee and a selection of snacks around their impressive meeting table made from reclaimed parquet flooring.
Everything in the Chimney House shouts unique. It's one of t.. A4e MarketingView Complete Post Thursday 27th May 2010, 08:1221st Century WelfareI was at the Department for Work and Pensions this morning to see the Secretary of State and his ministerial team launch their vision for modern welfare in the UK. The SoS was very clear and focused on building on strategies developed by members of the previous government whilst addressing core issues of coordination and simplification. That’s good. We set out with Flexible New Deal to have a simple, more unified programme for employment and welfare to work, but before we started, the fragmentation and proliferation of programmes kicked in. I understand why but it wasn’t helpful.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Tuesday 25th May 2010, 10:14Post a Pet Picture for CharityOur family dog back in Wales Tom died last week having reached a good age of fourteen.
Tom is pictured here with me last year the day before I found Bette in exactly the same place as she was abandoned the day after. He was a wire haired fox terrier and everyone said he looked like a teddy bear.
It made me realise how much happiness pets can bring so I have done a post on the community urging everyone to post up a picture of their pets - or if they don't have one a funny picture of an animal that makes them laugh.
For each picture posted I will donate a £1.. A4e MarketingView Complete Post Monday 24th May 2010, 09:04Big SocietyHad a good session this week with our policy team and a wonderful chap from Demos. He has worked in government across the last ten years – strategy unit, Treasury etc. – and helped the Conservative party define and refine the high level vision for ‘Big Society’ a while back. It was a really interesting discussion and last Autumn I blogged after a meeting with Stephan Shakespeare on the use of technology and data sets by government. His aim is to increase transparency and third party use (think i-app developers) and how that could benefit public services through innov.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Thursday 20th May 2010, 07:48Moral Capitalism?I’ve blogged before on our ideas around being a Social Purpose Company. We have been doing some work to share our ideas on what this means in terms of the values of A4e and the way we want to work and how these principles apply to a broader body of organisations. Allied to that, I have been working with the CBI and a number of other businesses to shape ideas on how we can support ideas around mutuals and co-operatives as the country tackles the challenges of the public financial deficit whilst continuing to i.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Friday 14th May 2010, 14:07Welfare Market DevelopmentI noticed a couple of reports in the press around the next phase of welfare reform now that a new government is getting down to business and minsters have been appointed. As Emma said in the interview with The Guardian recently http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/30/long-term-unemployment-a4e , this next phase is an extension of the.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Thursday 13th May 2010, 14:49Contributing to Policy DevelopmentThere was an interesting article in the FT this week on the era of ‘new politics’ which is being debated in the media. Have a look here http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be63eb70-5d34-11df-8373-00144feab49a.html if you’re interested. One of the responsibilities A4e has as a public service supplier is to feed its front line experience in.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Wednesday 5th May 2010, 11:10Learning to Share I learnt a very good lesson on my travels last week. “How to Share.” I was stuck last week in Madrid as part of the Volcano Ash problems. After 4 days I decided I really had to break out and strike for home otherwise I feared I may be skyping my wife and kids on Christmas day if I was not careful. The journey proved to be a real adventure with everybody being very kind and helpful to this english man trying to get home.
Whilst waiting for the next train to Dax in Northern France, I went to the local shop and bought a bottle water, a English new.. Roy NeweyView Complete Post Tuesday 4th May 2010, 16:38Volunteering and Community WorkHi Everyone,
On last months post me and Bette mentioned joining up to do Pets as Therapy to go around to visit people in hospital and in homes who like animals and want cheering up.
Well I have the application forms through finally today and it could be up to 16 weeks until Bette is approved to become a PAT Dog. The one worry we have is that she has to go through a test to be obedient - and in all honesty I have never trained her - I mean she will come to me when we are going out for a jog off the lead - but when it comes to sit down / beg roll over etc - no such luck.<.. A4e MarketingView Complete Post Saturday 17th April 2010, 11:34 China a country full of friendsLast week I had the opportunity to travel to China. The North West of China is a forbidding place in the winter. Temperatures of below 40 and driving wind make it an inhospitable place. However, the warmth of the people I had the chance to meet more than makes up for the chill. In all the travelling I have done over the last ten years I have never been made to feel so welcome so quickly. The Deputy Mayor and his team went out of their way to extend to me a welcome reserved for old friends. I was set up in accommodation with all my needs looked after. I was taken to every meeting in an offic.. Roy NeweyView Complete Post Tuesday 6th April 2010, 11:20Apologies - It's been a while but I'm backI can't believe it's been two months since Luke and I last shared what was happening inthe world of A4e Marketing. Apologies it's been so long but the fact is we have been so busy with everything that the blog has been on our minds but at the back of a long list of priorities. Will have to start doing them from home instead of watching boring TV!
The main reason for the blog being neglected is that working on the Community Site is a real priority and it's undergoing losts of developments to make it an even stronger feature of the A4e online presence. Have yo.. A4e MarketingView Complete Post Thursday 25th February 2010, 16:07Rich Famous and Jobless BBC1
Read all about it – I am on TV again March 9th and 10th
Just before Christmas I agreed to take part in a new TV programme for BBC1 called ‘Rich, Famous and Jobless.’ It is a follow up to last years highly successful Rich, famous and homeless in which four celebrities went to live on the streets on their own and after four days buddied up with a homeless person. This was ‘done’ to them by two ‘presenters’ Craig Last and John Bird (the Big Issue guy.)
Sunday 21st February 2010, 00:57Twitter InviteIf you are twittering and you would be interested in following me my twitter contact details are http://twitter.com/roynewey
Look me up some time. I update my twitter daily and really appreciate the feedback.
If you have a twitter account let me know who you are and your contact details. I would love to hear about your experiences of Improving Peoples Lives; the good the bad, the ugly and the amazing. Perhaps you want to share your fantastic habit, your passion for your allotment or just comment on the craziness of life and 2010.
I look forward to getting to yo.. Roy NeweyView Complete Post Friday 19th February 2010, 16:25We Are All House Builders I was in Africa at the start of January and I had the opportunity to spend some time with groups of unemployed people. I wanted to hear from them the barriers they felt were preventing them for getting into employment. After an hour I had learnt much more. One of the group who had been successful in obtaining employment was sharing with others his perspective on what had turned around his fortunes. He described a story;
Roy NeweyView Complete Post Thursday 11th February 2010, 03:50Dear MeI recently saw a book advertised in my local bookshop called Dear Me. The idea behind the book was to invite the great and the good to write a letter to themselves when they were 16 years old. I scanned a few of the pages and the letters ranged from thoughtful, reflective and serious to woeful, funny and outrageous. It made me think it was a good concept and so I have decided to pen myself a letter when I was unemployed;
Dear Me,Roy NeweyView Complete Post Wednesday 10th February 2010, 13:32Total PersonNew concept. Very cool. Well, as cool as public policy gets. Bit geeky some might say.
Hopefully a simple concept. A4e is about higher performing public services at lower cost. Better outcomes for citizens, better outcomes fo..Mark LovellView Complete Post
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