Monday 23 May 2011

Guest writer: Pamela Park



Well done to Debbie for volunteering at the Silver Surfers Day in Antrim library last Friday. I am sure you’ll have made a huge difference to each individual in enabling them access the net. We’ll watch out for them on Twitter and Facebook. Who knows they may even start their own blog!

This week is gonna be as blustery as the weather, as there’s yet another busy week ahead.

Our CEO Barry has internal meetings all day today until 4p.m. after which he will be attending a Mediation Symposium at the Law Society HQ in Belfast.

On Tuesday he's pulling out all the stops to do a whole load of "speed networking" meeting first his old chum Colin Daly at the Northside Community Law Centre in Dublin. Thereafter he's visiting Lemans Solicitors in Dublin 2 to talk about some new education seminars. He's meeting Liz Ryan of Mason Hayes for lunch. After that he's off to Eversheds for a meeting with David Fagan finishing with a quick coffee at the offices of O'Rourke Reid to see star performer Killian O'Reilly. He's then shooting up the motorway to meet top Legal-Island speaker Paul Joyce off the train before taking him to dinner in Antrim.

On Wednesday he's meeting David Brazier from Teamsolutions about our new conference software.

On Thursday he's meeting Kat Hinfey from Carecall for breakfast, Stella Gilmartin later that day to chat about mediation developments and Pamela Woods later that evening to talk about changes to child protection legislation.

On Friday he's attending an Annual Review Conference meeting where we'll be brainstorming what goes in our flagship event later this year. Phew!

Jayne our Managing Director has her usual internal meetings today. Tomorrow she will be carrying out interviews for an Intern with Ainsley, our Marketing Manager. On Friday she’ll be getting her thinking cap on when she joins our managers in a meeting to discuss ideas for our Annual Review of Employment Law Conference which will take place in Belfast and Dublin later this year.

Scott who is our Head of Training and Development is meeting Tanya Kennedy from BITC on Tuesday and is in Dublin on Wednesday networking and on Thursday chairing our ‘Hot Topics’ event at ByrneWallace offices, Dublin.

Apart from interviewing for an Intern, Ainsley our Marketing Manager is also meeting Andrew Cuthbert from Omnisoft on Thursday to discuss social media software and how it can be used by Legal-Island.

Kerry, Conference Manager for Northern Ireland is meeting with Olive McCartney from the Antrim Civic Centre on Tuesday. She will be hosting both the Understanding Irish Employment Law at the Hilton, Belfast on Wednesday and the second day of our Internal Mediation course on Thursday in the Legal-Island Training Centre.

On Thursday morning, alongside Donna, Office Manager, she will be attending Ballycraigy Primary school to present certificates in their morning assembly to all the pupils who participated in the 10 week hockey programme which was one of our volunteer projects this year.

Kerry would like to take this opportunity to say a very well done to both teams who played in the Antrim sixes tournament last week. And an extra special congratulations to the boys team who lifted the Plate on the day!!

Heather, Conference Manager for Republic of Ireland is meeting Hilary Dickson from Business in the Community (BITC) later today and on Thursday she’ll be hosting our ‘Hot Topics’ event at ByrneWallace offices, Dublin.

Peter, Marketing Officer is attending a Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce ‘Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities’ seminar at the Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast on Tuesday and volunteering with the Ballycraigy Primary School footballers on Wednesday afternoon.

This week I’ll be completing my volunteering day at T.A.C.T. which is the Talnotry Avian Care Trust based in Crumlin. They rescue sick, injured and abandoned wild birds and animals and currently have over 350 long term animals in their care. They receive no Government funding so I am sure my time here will be well spent.

Enjoy your week!

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