A £10 voucher if you refer a friend!

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Yes, we’ll give you a £10 voucher if you refer a friend!

Do you know anyone who is moving home, decluttering, or just needs more space? Tell them about Store & Secure!

When they sign up to store with us (and mention your helping hand), we’ll send you a £10 Tesco voucher… and there’s no limit to the amount of vouchers to collect. How cool is that?!

Prism PMA joins C4CM

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We have joined the Centre for Change Management (C4CM™) – and together we will lend a bigger voice to help project and change managers develop competence and enable more effective change in their organisations.

Our two organisations speak the same P3M language of developing people and supporting work based qualifications – and Prism PMA will become a C4CM accredited training organisation. We will work together to promote our views on workplace development of best practice in managing change. 

C4CM is focused on quality-driven processes for accreditation, delivery and the award of change management qualifications. It offers nationally-recognised, accredited qualifications and on-line courses for professional development.

Originally established by a consortium of training companies, C4CM is now an independently-owned enterprise. C4CM is a trademark of the Centre for Change Management Limited.

A banner for your blog or website

[Banner ad design and social media for charity Child of Hope]

Would you like to help us obtain more sponsors for the Child of Hope kids? If you run a website or blog, or love social media, please consider using this banner advertisement (below).

Simply copy the banner image and link it to this URL... www.childofhopeuganda.org/sponsorship/child-sponsorship/

If you would like one in a different size, just e-mail us and we'll sort it for you. We have a vertical banner too.

Kirsty's marathon

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Earlier this month, Kirsty Foster was out on the sunny streets of Cardiff running the half marathon for CoH with 23,000 others. She gave us this report...

"Taking part in such a huge community event is so inspiring - let alone knowing that the money I am raising for Child of Hope will contribute to the amazing work they continue to do with the community in Namatala Eastern Uganda.

"On the race day there were an estimated 500,000 spectators on the the street, so just a phenomenal atmosphere, with strangers cheering on strangers and people coming out and gathering together in a way we don't normally experience. I was determined to run a personal best time and also to beat my record of giving as many children high fives en route as possible! Read more...

Painful jiggers

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Erick is one of our many kids to have suffered from jiggers – one of the most debilitating medical conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.

The problem lies with chigoe fleas that burrow into exposed skin on the feet to lay eggs. During that time they swell dramatically, sometimes causing intense irritation. If the flea is left within the skin, dangerous problems can occur including secondary infections, loss of nails, deep holes in the flesh and toe deformation. Not nice.

It prevents millions of children from attending school, stops farmers from working their land, and makes walking all but unbearable. Jiggers entrenches families deeper into poverty – read more about it on Wikipedia.

Erick was missing school a lot, or coming in pain (he loves to study), but was finding it hard to walk from home and concentrate in class due to the itching and pain in his feet. But with help from our health and welfare teams, poor Erick is now relieved of the pain and happy – and doing well in class again.

Would you like to sponsor Erick or one of his classmates? It costs just £15 per month and you’ll get regular letters and photos from him! Click here for details.

First APM Body of Knowledge title

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APM is working with a number of third-party publishers to offer project professionals a range of quality reading materials which have been approved by the APM Body of Knowledge. 

The titles are selected for providing essential next-steps in the understanding of topics contained within the APM Body of Knowledge 6th edition. 

Here's the first – the Gower Handbook of Project Management Fifth Edition is cited as a core text ‘relevant to most, if not all, of the sections’ in the APM Body of Knowledge.

Mailboxes… lots of reasons to have one!

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We offer mailboxes to businesses or individuals for just £5 a week – with no fixed term. As long or as short as you like and available seven days a week! Here’s when they are useful…

Moving home or office: ensure all your mail and deliveries arrive where you expect them!

Run an online business or work from home: a mailbox gives you a commercial address to help your business image.

Living in shared accommodation: don’t risk mail and packages getting stolen – have them sent to your mailbox and collect when convenient to you.

Buying goods online: you can have your purchases delivered to your mailbox address and we'll sign for your deliveries, so you don’t have to hang around waiting for your deliveries.

Out of the office a lot: don't worry about packages being returned or left on your doorstep. We’ll receive your deliveries from the Royal Mail or carrier, and hold them for you to collect when you’re ready.

Living abroad: but want to keep a UK address. We will receive your post and even forward it to you.

Temporary address: we can provide you with a more permanent base in for your important mail and forward mail to you as required.

Call us today if you’d like to discuss how a mailbox could work for you.

The changing face of office design

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Lots of dynamics affect the creativity of office workers – and the interior designers we work with are well aware of how to help organisations get the best from their staff.

Well, here’s an interesting take on office space and layout trends from USA office equipment manufacturer Steelcase, in an article called 10 Trends in Office Design from CCIM Institute. Very interesting and worth a read!

Industry news for project managers

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News round-up for the project management sector, including Arras PM benchmark report, new 360 assessment tool, free Praxis framework and first APM body of knowledge title. Great info for P3M managers.

News and views from Store & Secure

eNewsletter for client Store & Secure of Bournemouth - double award-winning self-storage company.

Latest tips and news from Kirolite

eNewsletter for our client, high-end joinery and solid surface fabricator for interiors, Kirolite.

Sign up to receive direct to you inbox here.

New 360º feedback tool helps career advancement for P3M project managers

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LAUNCHING TODAY... assessment tool Spectrum 360 gathers other peoples’ observations of a project manager and compares them with his/her perception of himself. 

The questionnaires have been designed by an industrial psychologist and based around competency frameworks and makes for very powerful results which are difficult to ignore... more

Now in Ireland

[Social media post for African slum charity Child of Hope]

Child of Hope is now officially represented in Ireland – by Richard Latham and Cliona Davey, based in Dublin.

They were introduced to the work of Child of Hope in 2011 when Cliona volunteered at our school on the Welsh Assembly's management development programme International Learning Opportunities. She spent eight weeks helping to set up our fledgling welfare team and setting its highly-effective practices in place.

Richard joined her to visit the school at the end of her stay, and both were impressed by the high social impact caused by the school and its various programmes to benefit its pupils and their wider families.

Our friends and supporters in Ireland can now donate and sponsor a child in euros.

Double top award winners… not just UK, but now EU too!

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Following hot on the heels of our win as the UK’s best independent self-storage operator… now we have won the same top award– for the whole of Europe!

Our facility managers Lucy and Sophie Maidman have come away from the ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden with the award for ‘Best Facility Europe, Independent Operators 2014’.

The awards were held jointly by The Federation of European Self Storage Associations (FEDESSA) and the Self Storage Association United Kingdom (SSA UK).

Rennie Schafer, CEO of FEDESSA, said: “Store & Secure self-storage is a family-run business which puts customer service and being part of the community as a priority. Every customer is treated as a ‘guest’, that includes providing them with tea, coffee, biscuits – and even ice cream in the warmer weather! 

“They have an immaculately presented site, which shows their impeccable attention to detail. The staff are thoroughly involved in the local business community so they are the top of mind storage solution for all the local businesses.  

“All this, combined with their complete commitment to customer service in everything they do, has allowed them to produce performance results that are well above the normal for their location.”

Meet Prism at the CIPD annual exhibition in November

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Can we really bridge the KNOWING–DOING divide for P3M managers and boost their competence? Come and meet us at the CIPD exhibition and find out for sure.

While you’re there, you can meet 180 or so other leading HR suppliers, get advice and tailored solutions to everything from OD to coaching, and talent management to training delivery.

Takes place November 5-6 at Manchester Central (formerly GMEX), M2 3GX. Entry is free.

There’s also: 60+ free learning sessions… new HR Technology Zone… free professional development advice… speed networking and more.

Sleep on that

[Photography and social media for high-end joinery Kirolite]

Here are pictures just through of bespoke fitted bedroom furniture we designed, manufactured and fitted at a luxury south coast residence.

There are two wardrobes, one in the master bedroom and the other in a guest room, frames in stone grey with ABS edging and fronts in satin walnut finish. For aesthetics both units are fitted with backs, rather than straight onto the wall, creating a fully-finished piece.

If you have a high-end bedroom design project, call us for a quote! We are experts in beautiful finishes using wood, lacquer finishing for solid colours and solid surface for a seamless dressing table top, along with lovely finishing touches with leather, metal and glass.

Sponsor a child and help launch him out of poverty

[Social media for slum kids' charity Child of Hope]

Now our amazing school is nearly complete, we are turning our focus on its running costs. Clearly, running the school and providing free education (and a whole lot more) to our 360 pupils costs quite a lot – actually it’s getting close to £6,000 a month. And as we head towards our target of 600 slum children, it’s going to get bigger by far.

So, we’d really like to attract more sponsors for our children. Currently around 200 of them are sponsored, which is fantastic – but that means that 160 children still need a sponsor! Actually, all our children get the same education, care and love, whether or not they are sponsored – those not yet sponsored are supported by our general funds.

Some donors like to sponsor a child as it gives the opportunity for a relationship with the child. Sponsors receive two or three letters and school reports each year from the child and at least one photograph every year - which you can stick on the fridge to remember them! You can make the relationship as personal as you like… some sponsors send letters and birthday presents… it’s up to you and we can offer advice on how to do this.

For just £15 a month (€20 in Ireland), child sponsorship helps pay for staff wages, food, uniform, healthcare, welfare workers and some resources. It’s amazing to think how far your money will stretch. So... want to help? If so, please click here for more information and how to sign up.

If you are already a child sponsor… thank you very much! You could help us by telling your family, friends and work colleagues about our child sponsorships – you’ll be surprised how many people, like you, want to help break children out of poverty this way.

Praxis P3M resources: free from Prism

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Prism PMA is to collaborate with Praxis to provide the P3M community with valuable free resources.

Launched this year, Praxis is a free framework for the management of projects, programmes and portfolios (P3M). It includes an extensive body of knowledge, methodology, competency framework and capability maturity model.

Praxis is compatible with many other guides such as PRINCE2®, the APM Body of Knowledge and ISO21500. It's free, practical, integrated and community-driven – a fabulous P3M resource that would warrant a tab on your browser bookmarks bar!