Dear all, this is a very brief post just to apologise for the complete lack of posting on our blog. Due to illness, annual leave and other unforeseen problems with the site, we have not posted in over a month now. Rest assured though that the blog will be back up and running over the next couple of weeks with more than just three regular contributors.
Seeing as it is just myself and Marc blogging, as Marc mentioned previously-I guess it’s back to me to try and find something interesting to say. I’m not feeling very confident about this though.
Something we are keen to work on in the Comm’s team is our relationship with Scottish organization and groups in London. To this end, I had a really interesting meeting last week with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (London Branch) and Feis London. Both are organisations who promote and organise Scottish events in London. This year will be the 3rd Feis to be held in London, a Feis being a Gaelic festival.
As I am from Inverness, I have fond memories of the Feis which was held every year and meant all of the pubs were open until 5 am. I don’t remember that much of the Feis itself as a result. I am not a Gaelic speaker but my school had a Gaelic unit and I know lots of Gaelic speakers so I think it’s great that the Feis carries on all over the UK and not just the Highlands.
The London Feis is held in Roehampton on the weekend of the 11-13th of September. Contact feislondon@blueyonder.co.uk if you are interested. They also hold regular Monday night sessions for musicians so again use the above contact if you are interested.
I hope that ScotsCare and Borderline will be really involved with Scottish cultural events in and around London so keep checking our website for information on this and many other events and sign up for our newsletter online if you haven’t already so you don’t miss out. www.scotscare.com/newsletter.php
I unfortunately don’t have too much to report on the communications front. We were the Calcutta Cup Carnival at London Scottish rugby Club on Saturday where we got to speak to some interesting Scots and catch up with some trustees. Other than that, we have lots of exciting events in the planning stage so will have to keep those under our hat for the moment. We will keep you posted as developments happen.
Ross
The first ScotsCare Shout of 2009 has been written, printed and should be on its way to all of our clients and donors, featuring news, events, jokes (bad), interviews and lots of other information about what goes on at ScotsCare. If you would like to recieve the newsletter by post then email me at ross@scotscare.com. Alternatively visit http://www.scotscare.com/newsletter.php and sign up to recieve it digitally.
I have spent the last week and a half working on our donor database; adding new records, organising old ones, highlighting, de-highlighting, ticking, un-ticking, emails, gifts, etc etc etc dull etc, and i can now do things on raisers edge, excel and access that i never thought i would be able to do or had any desire to. I have got excel formulas permanently etched onto my brain. =(W2&”, “&X2)-Bet you don’t know what that means- i saddly do! I don’t ever remember getting a trivial pursuit question on them (which is how i determine if i need to know anything), so i don’t know what i’ll do with this information but I am officially a database geek.
Maybe i could join a support group, wean myself of gradually. yep.
