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Back to blogMr Osborne, go to Ireland and talk Early Years over a cup of tea and a Kimberley
(While I am desperate to blog about our work with Europe and the recent Wave Trust report...
A visit from our Minister
This week LEYF hosted a visit for our Minister Elizabeth Truss MP. We were pleased to welcome her...
The Angels’ Share: a film that turns whiskey into a political metaphor. Drink Up!
When the weather is raining and grey, I often like to go to see a film in...
Déjà vu, all over again.
I am a nervous passenger generally, but my anxiety rises to a whole new level when we...
Loneliness is the scariest thing we have to face.
According to Downing St, isolation and loneliness are more dangerous to our health than smoking. Well as...
When Santa got stuck up the chimney… what did he actually say?
Half way up and unable to move, Santa shouted out that from now on he was prepared...
Celebrating Social Enterprise and scaling up
There has been so much for me to write about this week, it has been hard to...
Collecting Ministers like ‘Top Trumps’
This week has been rather a fest of networking, the most noteworthy of which was one evening...
The new vision for Early Years
The Department for Education and the Department of Health have published the Government’s vision for the foundation...
How do you measure SROI at a social enterprise garden party?
On Friday, 1st July, over 200 LEYF staff - now spread across Barking & Dagenham, Camden, Tower...
No half measures when it comes to social impact
There is much talk at the moment about the importance of measurement, including a reference to it...