One of the best things about MCing and speaking at events is that you get to meet some brilliant people. In April I was in Dallas (the city, not the TV show) with the Staying Alive Foundation. Led by the phenomenal Georgia Arnold, the organisation (which funds HIV and AIDS projects around the world) raised over …
I’m grateful to David Thornton for coming to meet me recently, as part of a series of interviews he’s doing for the Fredericks Foundation. His piece begins; “Oli Barrett just about qualifies as a millennial, but exhibits so many core millennial values you’d be forgiven for thinking he invented the phrase just to describe himself. …
OK, here’s an idea. When you buy a new house, you are given the option of signing a pledge. You pledge that, on sale of that house, a small percentage of the increase in its value will go to a charity of your choice. You can choose the percentage, however let’s say it’s 1%. This …
Twitter can be a bit like a conveyor belt. If you’re tuned in at the right time, you might spot a gem , or a cuddly toy. On the downside, you miss thousands of things. We probably shouldn’t let that bother us, however I thought it might be useful to list a few of the …
A letter to the Guardian sent by one Dinah Hall from Devon a couple of years ago, reads as follows; “There’s nothing like teenage diaries for putting momentous historical events in perspective. This is my entry for 20 July 1969. “I went to arts centre (by myself!) in yellow cords and blouse. Ian was there but …