Masks are in the news and so they’ve become a topic of conversation.  Prior to the Pandemic, when was the last time you wore a mask?  I don’t think I’ve worn one since childhood.  We used to get cardboard masks with comics.  These were full masks or half masks, covering the top half of the

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Find Tell Share is a new podcast co-hosted in Sheffield by Chris Sissons, Market Together and Jemma Rosenthal, Find Your Voice.  It’s the storyteller’s podcast, featuring everything storytelling, especially if you use stories to promote your business or charity (and you should!).  We plan to produce an edition once a month with a special guest.

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I was asked to join the board of a social enterprise, founded and run by a married couple.  On paper they had something worthwhile.  They’d drawn up a good business plan and not only did they receive grants but also awards for their plan from prestigious government funding bodies. They needed a board of directors

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Adult Education is an essential part of how any business helps potential customers understand what they sell.  My offer is Telling Stories: Making Business and this is its story! “In the rude shipyard beneath my window Books tumble from ear to elbow. An amalgamation of script and scran, A living room where money changes hands.”

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“It’s where your feet are”, the words of John Vincent,  who founded the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield during the late sixties, to offer Alternative Theological Education, without profit!  I attended their study year in 1981 – 2, as I moved from research science to community development. We lived in the inner city, studied for

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Let’s begin a story about Local Environment with a song!  This is from The Stirrings in Sheffield, a local musical! To be a Sheffield grinder, it is no easy trade, There’s more than you’d imagine to the grinding of a blade. The strongest man among us is old at 32, There’s few who brave such

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