Monday 30 January 2012

The Island Waddle! Guest Writer: Ainsley



Everyone is waddling this morning!

Either there's an audition for Happy Feet 4 that I wasn't aware of, or everyone's feeling the strain from the ten mile walk/run on Saturday!

A big congratulations to Heather, Kerry, John, Jayne, Donna, Debbie, Jacqui and Vanessa, who joined up with our friends at Antrim Borough Council to raise funds for the MacMillan Nurses in their centenary year. They did a fantastic job and the money's still rolling in, so we don't yet have a total raised, but there's still time to donate to this fantastic cause, simply drop us a line. Here are some of them, raring to go!


We're sticking close to the Borough Council this week, as a number of us are attending the 'Airline Innovation' event on high performance they are organising on Wednesday. I will be joined by Allison, Vanessa and Heather - with Kerry and Donna attending a related session by David Meade (International Speaker and Entertainer) on 'innovation and leadership.' Kerry will also be busy on Thursday organising and attending Legal-Island's First Thursday Mediation Club.

Elsewhere on the island, Barry our CEO has a week almost completely clear of meetings - so lots of time for him to prepare for the Strategy Team meeting on Thursday.

Our MD, Jayne is in the office all week, writing up Performance Review documentation and continuing with policy work in between the usual internal meetings. Jayne will also be continuing her volunteering at St. Brigids, Ballymena on Friday morning.

Marketing Officer Peter Fitzpatrick will also be volunteering this week, delivering football coaching to Ballycraigy Primary School children. I will be there too to even the sides.

Our Training Centre is also busy this week, hosting Northern Trust today and Schrader tomorrow.

Apart from that we're gearing ourselves up for a busy first season of events, with places selling fast. To make sure you're up to speed, check out what's happening on the Events page of our website.

As Happy Feet's dad said to him, "The word triumph starts with a 'try' and ends with a great big UMPH"

Onwards we waddle. Have a great week.

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