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		<title>Preparing for Dialogue &#8211; by Henrietta Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this blog on the train journey down to Arundel.  Hopkins Van Mil is running a series of 9 Autumn workshops (3 sets of 3) for the South Downs National Park Authority and this is the 2nd one of the 2nd set in West Sussex.  I&#8217;m excited at the thought of facilitating what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=410&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving social capital through dialogue &#8211; By Anita van Mil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s news headlines about Amina Araf not being a lesbian Syrian blogger but a student from Edinburgh made me think about what Henrietta said in her blog last week. Effective dialogue is not only built on trust and transparency; it&#8217;s based on an investment in face-to-face human interaction as well. Today’s face-to-face engagement I’m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=387&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the Dialogue Going &#8211; by Henrietta Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in reflective and buoyant mood this morning.  Yesterday the Hopkins Van Mil team were at Alfriston in East Sussex running the last in a series of six engagement events, commissioned by East Sussex County Council, funded by DEFRA as part of the Pathfinder programme supporting communities adapting to coastal change.  The BBC reported on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=366&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coping not planning? &#8211; by Henrietta Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 10:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your chance to win a free Creating Capacity Learning Review Our dilemma Creating Capacity, Hopkins Van Mil&#8217;s learning social enterprise, had an interesting dilemma yesterday.  We had planned a really focused, brilliant course on Customer Care techniques with an excellent Creating Capacity trainer, Jerry Hurst.  We thought through our marketing plans carefully (as always!) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=347&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eureka! A holistic approach to engagement &#8211; By Anita van Mil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s interesting how many years it takes many small and medium sized enterprises to really get to the heart of what they’re good at and what they stand for. At Hopkins Van Mil we’re no different. A flying start We got off on a flying start six years ago, teaming up the skills and networks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=331&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Top Tips for Creative Fundraising &#8211; By Henrietta Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I was at Valence House Museum running the second of three training days for Barking &#38; Dagenham&#8217;s Heritage Services as part of Creating Capacity&#8217;s In-House offer.  At this session we were working through the theory and practice of a sustainable funding plan.  We had a brilliant day.  The team produced collages to describe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=313&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our social enterprise model &#8211; By Anita van Mil</title>
		<link>http://hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/our-social-enterprise-model-by-anita-van-mil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost a year now to the date MLA London transfered its training programme to Hopkins Van Mil: Creating Connections. We set up a separate training arm Creating Capacity, which we run as a social enterprise. Over the last 12 months we have worked incredibly hard to develop a viable business model. We&#8217;ve hired Lucy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=300&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 More reasons for Future Proofing &#8211; By Anita van Mil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henrietta set us up nicely yesterday with our first 5 reasons for future proofing. We promised 5 more, so here you go. Our reasons are based on tried and tested approaches as well as new ways of working we all need to embrace to be effective in the 21st century. 6. Maximising benefits Henrietta and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=288&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons to Future Proof your organisation &#8211; By Henrietta Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m blogging today on Blue Monday.  This is &#8216;officially&#8217; the bleakest day of the year when debts, taxes and bad weather are all pressing heavily on us.  It was suggested by The Guardian&#8217;s Helen Pidd yesterday that Blue Monday is no more than something &#8216;to give the publicity hungry a peg to hang their message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=260&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One stop shop community resources &#8211; By Anita van Mil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My tweet yesterday evening about an article by John Harris in the Guardian generated a few comments on my Linkedin page. I said that is was a good reflection of my observations last week when I was visiting community libraries in the Greater Manchester area. My old friend and colleague Manus Brinkman was wondering about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopkinsvanmil.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11764322&amp;post=255&amp;subd=hopkinsvanmil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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