A few weeks ago I posted a comment on Facebook: “I am seriously contemplating setting up a cooking for good mental health course. There’s something so very therapeutic, in the midst of unfathomable goings...
14 years ago, last Wednesday, my maternal grandmother died, Hilda Winifred Stevens (nee Gibbs). She was and still is, the person who has the most influence in my life. I am always rather surprised by...
Rachel Miller sent me this in the post yesterday. It arrived at a particularly pertinent moment. Yesterday morning had been dominated by a baby with an exceptional sneezing ability; the breaking of my front...
So, someone said to me yesterday, we haven’t seen you for a while. Their eyes then followed my arms down to the pram in front of me and the four month old wearing a...
Today the CIPR has announced a whole host of measures to support women who are on maternity leave, about to go on maternity leave, or returning from maternity leave. We believe we are the...
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog for the CIPR website encouraging CIPR members to consider standing for election. I become President of the CIPR on 1st January 2015, taking over from Stephen Waddington,...
I was asked to present at the Public Relations Institute of Ireland recently and also at a seminar for not for profit and public sector communications managers, organised by Mentor Digital. In Dublin I...
I live in Bristol, I come from Plymouth and we have family and friends right across the South West. I, like many people in the UK and beyond have been moved, concerned, worried –...
Today is has been announced that I have been elected President Elect for the CIPR for 2014, and President for 2015. For the last three years I have served the CIPR as chair of...
