Activities for 2010-11
as on Thursday, 07 October 2010

 

 

Wherever you're coming from,
a huge welcome

This page last updated on
Thursday October 07, 2010

   


Click here for our 2010
Promises to the Poor


Helping hands for
UK schools

Helping hands
more locally

Contact Just1




 

 

 

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.


Just1 is a helping hand - a unique, unstuffy, and sideways-thinking organisation of just one person helping promote social justice in the world.   Lots of people like the idea - especially teachers in many UK schools. 

 

Just1 is just me, encouraging and co-ordinating the help of a surprising diversity of others, 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 is non-political, non-fundraising, not-for-profit, operating on miniscule funding (ie a few quid from my personal pocket).

 

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 - 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. And an aim is to let as many people as possible join in.  

 

And Just1 activities? Click below for information.

 

       
Helping hands for UK schools & colleges
as a contribution to PSHE/RE/Citizenship Studies

- Schools Stand Up Against Poverty
- Schools Spring Up: Acclaim Campaigners
- Schools Weigh Up Your MP

 

 


 

     
Helping hands more locally -
as a contribution to community cohesion

- Hugh's Flying-Crooked Talks
- Campaigners Together in Bracknell - and Beyond
- Churches Together in Berkshire

- Hughmanitarian Thoughts for the Week
- Save Our Saint!

 

 



The Just1 mission statements? 

"Die of service, not of rust" is a life-long line in the old school song
at King Edward's Birmingham. 

"Aspire not to have more but to be more"
from Archbishop Oscar Romero (whose memory and legacy we'll be honouring during Spring Up each 24 March, incidentally).

"Quant Je Puis"
from a visit to Stonyhurst College - which I take to mean do the best you can (and I add, while you can because old age will get you soon enough...)

 

 
For more information at any time, contact
The Conductor of Just1, Hugh Gibbons

E-mail: hughgibbons@just1.org.uk

Tel: 01344 451847

Write: 75 Qualitas
Roman Hill
Bracknell
Berks RG12 7QG
United Kingdom

 

 


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