Paul The Programmer

My normal Friday morning routine is up at 5, wash dress. On PC by 5.30 for half an hour, reading, tweeting (twitter > follow paulthehacker - thats me). Out the door by 6.20am for my regular 7am BNI meeting (Business Networking) in South Shields, N.E. UK.

So what was different today?

Today, we had a 10 presentation by Katherine Scholes of Finchale Training College, County Durham. If you don't know who they are, go see their website.

What they do is simply fantastic. They provide vocational training to unemployed, disabled adults. But more than that, they give them purpose, skills and hope. Not some kind of pipe dream hope, no this is real, honest to goodness hope that builds reputation to enter and retain employment.

They're currently looking for job placements, for their students, in a range of skill areas, such as I.T. 7 networking, Accounting, Joinery and decorative occupations, to name a few.

That deserves, in my opinion, 5 minutes of anyones time to look and see whether you can offer support, whatever form that may be.