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Wherever you're coming from, a huge welcome to Just1 in 2010 - and beyond... |
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 CONTACT HUGH GIBBONS? E-mail hughgibbons@just1.org.uk Tel (UK) 01344 451847 Write 75 Qualitas Roman Hill Bracknell Berkshire RG12 7QG United Kingdom UK SCHOOLS PSHCE/RE ACTIVITIES 2010? Click here for details
OTHER ACTIVITIES 2010?
STAND UP SCHOOLS 2009? HUGH' BIO - AND HELPERS?
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Just1's creator and Conductor Hugh Gibbons says...
The Dalai Lama put it well: if you think one person can't make a difference, you've never shared a bedroom with a mosquito.
Lots of people do - especially teachers in many UK schools. As you'll see below, this year schools have three free-to-all Just1 ideas (in which other communities can join, of course):
Just1 is just me, encouraging and co-ordinating the help of a surprising diversity of others, and using e-mail to save costs and carbon. It's voluntary and amateur. (As the saying goes: professionals built The Titanic - amateurs built The Ark.) With no committees, no minutes, no blogs. Just1 remains non-political, non-fundraising, not-for-profit, operating on miniscule funding (ie a few quid from my personal pocket). Not everything needs big funds to work.
Just1 is my late-in-life and independent way of applying some useful career experience and skills; lending a hand to campaigns against worldwide poverty; being of some local use as well. And saying thank-you in unusual ways.
I created Just1 to help MakePovertyHistory - in my role as a schools and media volunteer with CAFOD Portsmouth. CAFOD is the official relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in England & Wales. But with Just1 I can be of help far more widely in the UK - and for many different communities.
NB Just1 activities are NOT about fundraising and not a campaign - though I aim to give support and encouragement to campaigners for social justice.
In 2009, the big event was the Schools StandUp Against Poverty on 16-18 October - in which using mostly e-mail I got over 100,000 souls to take part in schools, churches and other settings. The list makes uplifting reading, especially the outreach activities of the 30,000 in schools signing up in the last 3 weeks.
So for 2010, I've decided my main effort is to provide a simple helping hand to PSHCE/RE in UK schools and colleges. There are three activities to unite tens or hundreds of thousands of pupils and staff - usually for a few minutes in assembly or classroom.
It's to let as many as possible join in. Hence this new mark of encouragement that you'll see around.
Thanks for reading this far. If you'd like to know more, just click on the links below.
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The Just1 mission statements?
"Aspire
not to have more
"Quant
Je Puis"
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If you see Just1 page links have a reference to www.ahaa.org.uk, that's because Ahaa! was a formative influence. It was founded by Hugh Gibbons in 1994 as a psychology association for non-psychologists - anyone in any job wanting to get a handle on what makes organisations and individuals tick. So Ahaa! was a good place for people to chat over the back fence, as it were. Over 150 meetings were hosted by such places as New Scotland Yard, RAF stations, The National Theatre, hotels, multinational companies big and small, the famous Manzi's, a Benedictine abbey... |
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The Just1 2010 Menu as on Sunday, 13 June 2010 |
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OTHER HELPING HANDS
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For more information at any time, contact The Conductor of Just1, Hugh Gibbons
E-mail:
hughgibbons@just1.org.uk
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