Guest Writer: Heather Stewart

Chickens & Hockey

Now normally these 2 items would not mix well (unless the eggs are hard boiled!) but they did for Legal-Island last week. We began the week by visiting Ballycraigy Primary School to see the Chicken and coop that we sponsored so the school could get fresh eggs and teach the children a thing or two about where our food comes from. This coop was made by a friend of the school and consists entirely of recycled materials including, as you can see in the pic, a washing machine door as a window!
I was then back in Ballycraigy Primary School towards the end of the week to help train their hockey team which we sponsor, lots of great new talent again this year. They can't wait for the end of season tournament.

Onto what we are all doing this week:

Our CEO, Barry, has a busy week ahead. Today he's meeting Andrew Cuthbert from Omnisoft for lunch in between meetings with staff. On Tuesday he's in London for a marketing seminar which means a very early start and a late return home. On Thursday he's attending a seminar on mapping work flows before shooting over to a meeting of the First Thursday Mediation Club. On Friday afternoon he's leading the Senior Team meeting before heading into the weekend and doing whatever he has planned for the weekend. More work at a guess.

Scott is chairing the HR Symposium in Dublin on Wednesday and will attend the Strategy Team meeting on Friday. In between, he hopes to be working from home on Thursday.

Kerry will be meeting with Laura Kerr from YENI on Thursday to discuss her Learn to Earn volunteer day coming up next week.  Later on that day she will be attending the First Thursday Mediation club which will be lead by Peter O’Reilly former Director of Mediation NI.  Kerry has a show round of the new Titanic building in Belfast on Friday to consider it for potential NI events.  

Ainsley is meeting Brian Nelson of Forth Data on Thursday morning, followed by Gareth Dunlop of Fathom in the afternoon. 

I will be running my first event of the year on Wednesday and it starts with a bang, we have 130 delegates at our Ireland's HR Symposium.

Donna is taking her turn at the hockey training this week, the kids can't wait to see her back!

Also in the training centre we have Schrader today and then the Patient and Client council on Tuesday and Social Services Training on Thursday and Friday

That is one busy week for us all here, we'll see you on the other side!