This week has been a very good time for Beauty in the Universe. We have secured a further funding award from CVS in Burnley and we have hatched a plan to create a club for young astronomers, with the working title 'Little Beauties'. This means more work of course, but fruitful labour rather than a chore. I will build a separate website where children can get updates, learn to stargaze and download/watch videos about astronomy.
Things are going well and we are experiencing small scale successes that are already beginning to add up to a very substantial whole. Our next goal behind the scenes is to secure enough funding to lease office space and fund two full time positions that we can guarantee for at least twelve months, and then after that we will create two internships for school leavers. In schools the goal is to do an excellent job on our first contract.
In the long term our goal is to prove Centre for Cities wrong. We could not have made a better start.
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Young Astronomers and More Progress
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Adam Whittaker
Saturday, 6 February 2010
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More Progress
Posted by
Adam Whittaker
Friday, 5 February 2010
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This week has been one of our busiest yet. I estimate that I have put around fifty hours work in this week. We have secured the five schools we need to proceed with our initial six week programme, so now we can proceed and get on with things.
Yesterday we looked at office space. That was a weird feeling. This started in the last week of October and now we are three months on, looking at premises and actually proceeding. That is remarkably quick if you ask me. The challenge is to keep a rational mindset and to focus. Of course it would be great to move in to our own space and we fell in love with the place we looked at, but that means that my desire for what I want can coerce me in to bad decisions. I never decide on the spot about these things, particularly when it is money and could tie us up for a while. That is when a cool head is important and decisions made need to be thought through and intelligently assessed. It will happen, but preparedness and alertness in respect to the consequences of our actions and decisions forces regular, stringent reviews of ideas and plans and that process is what Beauty in the Universe is all about. We stand or fall on our ability to make shrewd, intelligent decisions. Read More!
Yesterday we looked at office space. That was a weird feeling. This started in the last week of October and now we are three months on, looking at premises and actually proceeding. That is remarkably quick if you ask me. The challenge is to keep a rational mindset and to focus. Of course it would be great to move in to our own space and we fell in love with the place we looked at, but that means that my desire for what I want can coerce me in to bad decisions. I never decide on the spot about these things, particularly when it is money and could tie us up for a while. That is when a cool head is important and decisions made need to be thought through and intelligently assessed. It will happen, but preparedness and alertness in respect to the consequences of our actions and decisions forces regular, stringent reviews of ideas and plans and that process is what Beauty in the Universe is all about. We stand or fall on our ability to make shrewd, intelligent decisions. Read More!
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