Have you ever taken a step back to look at some of the everyday things you may take for granted? It could be walking, talking or even hearing, we can all imagine how difficult it may be to suddenly lose some of these abilities we are so used to but have you ever thought about…
Journey’s are unique to an individual, what it involves, where it leads and how it’s started is a fascinating entanglement of emotion, perseverance and yearning. Whether the requirements of the journey to start are met within hours, days or weeks it makes no difference. All that matters is that it is started and the person…
With four days to go until Christmas Day ubu wants to wish everyone very happy Christmas festivities and a fun and safe welcome into 2019! We hope you have a warm and wonderful time over this Christmas period, as one door closes another opens so let’s see where the great big and beyond of 2019…
Our eleventh ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Video and Photograph Competition In Wigan, a group of people served by ubu wanted to find a way to make a real difference to people lives in their area. “We found The Brick Project which is a small group who offer help to people who are homeless, in poverty…
Day 7 is here, our final day of our Christmas Sparkle Events. What an amazing end it was, hosted by the Children’s Services Team members. We had some fantastic live singing granted to us by some brilliant young people from our services as well as an amazing hand baked cake, and we must say… it…
Day 6 of our Christmas Sparkle Events and sadly it’s the second to last one for this year. Todays Christmas Sparkle Event was hosted by the brilliant North West team members and what a fantastic show they put on for the audience, how a mean and rude enabler was shown what being a true team…
What an amazing fifth day to our Christmas Sparkle events hosted by the fantastic team members from the East Midlands, they even managed to bring Santa along too, we couldn’t believe it! We had such a fun time trying to find the cheeky elf’s that were hidden around the room and were amazed by a…
Day 4 of our Christmas Sparkle Events and what a fantastic gathering we had! Todays event was hosted by the Harrogate teams and our theme for the day was ‘The Greatest Showman’, the Hub was filled with ringmasters, clowns, and even lion tamers, it was a sight to behold! We had karaoke, games and even…
Day 3 of our Christmas Sparkle Events and what a brilliant day it was indeed! Today’s Sparkle Event was hosted by the Leeds team but not as we usually know them, we were greeted by Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future accompanied by Leeds’ very own musical Elf. With…
Day 2 of our Christmas Sparkle Events and what a fantastic turn out again. Our hosts today were team members from York: Judith, Julie, Cordelia, Gillian, Jacqui, Rose and Gabby. With them they brought some festive treats and some fantastic festive games, fun was definitely had by all, especially when the snowball fight broke out!…
What a marvellous turn out for our first Christmas Sparkle event of 2018. We had some fantastic presenters and an even more fantastic audience, it couldn’t have gone better! With Christmas spirit in the air everyone was having a good boogie, playing games, joining in with competitions and enjoying some delightful food and beverages provided…
I was recently privileged to be a panel member for a number of excellent leadership management presentations. Without exception each presentation brought with it unique recognition of the purpose, value, focus, competencies and what Leadership and Management aims to achieve. Each presentation was indeed so individual they were one of a kind. All shared extremely…