Creating our own future?
From the desk of Carole Gallant, Managing Director, create a futureIn February 2006 in our Spring newsletter I wrote the following:
“I am confident that create a future will continue to survive and thrive in our new world.”
The story of this organisation is a common one. Throughout our history we have been successful in attracting support (grant) funding for projects from a variety of sources. These have included National, Regional and Local Government Agencies, LEAs, Companies, Learned Institutions and occasionally, individuals.
As anyone who inhabits the “not for profit”/charitable world will tell you – the funding environment in which we find ourselves has changed. Money has got tighter … in many cases funding streams have disappeared. Funding has switched from the provider to the receiver … enabling the “purchase” of services, such as ours, for the first time.
create a future (and the organisations that preceded it) has a reputation in the delivery of science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities. In order to continue to grow and develop … WE … needed to do something!
So … on with the story.
Late in 2004 I sat down and took a long hard look at the company …
who we were … who could we be?
who were our customers … where else could we potentially sell our services?
what we did well, what we did badly … could we change or improve?
our products … extend or contract the range?
our pricing … free at end user or charge?
funding dependant … funding an additional bonus?
… and whilst I found some very good reasons for staying as we were, I found more compelling reasons to change and expand our portfolio, as well as change the way we “do things around here”.
Not a natural networker, I forced myself to “get out there” and begin to find others who might help me to achieve the goals that I had re-affirmed for myself and the company.
Namely … to help (young) people to WAKE UP to the opportunities that are available to them … to explore new ways of learning … “to enable people to “survive and thrive” in the C21st” (I’ve borrowed these words from Mark Layder of Quality of Life Academy).
My own experiences as an individual, a teacher and a Mum, lead me to want to do something to change the world of education as we know it … to something more suitable for the challenging environment that faces us all in the C21st.
As a result create a future is
Whilst keeping the core STEM “flavour” of the company.
Will we continue as a company to “survive and thrive”?
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