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Welcome to the Lighthouse Futures Trust Blog! Here we share our thoughts which you’ll also find on LinkedIn each week. We call them LFT Wednesdays and it’s when we do a bit of thinking about issues that affect us all but also those that Lighthouse work with and support every day.
27th March 2025 – National Supported Internship Day 2025
National Supported Internship Day recognises all the young people with an Education Health & Care Plan who have not let their personal challenges get in the way of their independence and career. This year across the country, we’re turning things orange to try to engage more people to consider employing someone who has been through a supported internship, to host one, or even to sign up for one themselves. Help spread the word today!
26th March 2025 – Reverse Job Fair
Sometimes people surprise you. I think that was the take away from this morning’s Reverse Job Fair at Nexus Leeds. I know that our supported interns are some of the kindest and most welcoming, personable people I’ve ever worked with, but take them completely out of the comfort zone, into new surroundings and meeting people they’ve never met… Nailed it.
Some of the supported interns that were at the event have only been with us since September, and some of them, back then, would not have said ‘Boo’ to the proverbial goose. Yet here they were, sat next to their peers chatting away about what they do at their work placement, what their key skills are, and asking questions about where the employers they met work. Again…nailed it.
The pure joy and pride of watching them in their stride. You just can’t describe it. So, do supported internships work? You bet they do. The magic of having someone who has been in work themselves on hand through the day, and a trained work buddy who knows exactly what you need and just the right way to explain things to you. It really is quite magical see.
Am I biased? Maybe. But, as I’ve only been with the organisation for as long as some of the interns, it’s still quite phenomenal to witness. I guess this is the feeling a parent has when you can see them being ready to fly the nest.
If you’ve still not met our supported interns then I encourage you to. They have some exceptional skills and some of them are still looking for positions at the end of their internships. Get in touch if you have a role you think one of them would like and we’ll see what we can do!
5th March 2025 – Teacher Twilight Session
Do you remember your favourite teacher at school? Mine was called Mrs Fury. I’ve just googled her and found a Facebook entry on an old staff photo where someone’s commented, “A fierce and funny teacher who was there when I needed her most!” That’s exactly how I would describe her too. She got me into drama and writing sketches for the school show and all sorts of things.
The people we spend 39 weeks a year with have a huge influence on what we end up like as a person, and what we do for a career. Here I am writing for a living for instance. She is also one of the reasons that I can stand up and talk in front of people, although sometimes I could do with a pep-talk from her beforehand.
The reason I can approach anyone at a networking event, hand outstretched and start talking is because of a female boss I had when I first moved to Leeds. Roll on a few more years, and I now work at an organisation where ALL of the senior leadership team are female. All of them! How often does that happen? It’s something that we talk about in business; how do we get more women in the board room… Well, ours is full!
Sounds like I’m shaping up to an International Women’s Day post here. Sort of. What I’m trying to say, in my usual roundabout way, is that the people (in my case mostly women) who help shape your lives are important, and I wonder if we thank them or support them enough to manage the load of lifting others.
Next Tuesday, we’re inviting educators in to visit Lighthouse Futures Trust. We know they get asked by parents, carers and guardians constantly about the next step for young people and we want to give them some of the answers, make things a bit easier for them. And there’ll be cake. So, if you’re an educator helping young people with an EHCP their post-16 choices, then we’d love you to come along. Email us or leave a comment below if you’d like to come.
26th February 2025 – Reverse Job Fair
Do you remember your first interview? The nerves, the sweaty palms, stumbling over your words, can’t remember that brilliant question your mum suggested… Whether it’s for a paper round, a Saturday job or you’re coming out of education and want to join the full time world of work, the first interview is the hardest. Or should that say weirdest? Interviews are funny things, what else in life do we spend only 30 to 60 minutes on to decide if we want to do it every day for the next few years? We take longer than that over buying a pair of shoes.
Then there’s the complete strangers and the building we’ve never been in. The rest of the employees who have their eyes on the candidates wondering who might be joining their team. It’s a wonder we manage to get through it unscathed. Plus, the interviewers are often nervous too!
Enter the reverse job fair. This is something which helps our students meet new companies and find jobs. With coaching and support as necessary, our students turn the tables on employers and interview them. It’s like a careers fair but the students are the ones behind the tables and companies need to sell to them what they’ve got to offer.
When they’ve got all their friends and job coaches in the same room with them, it’s so much easier. Anyone else fancy taking their friend to an interview as moral support? I know I would. You get the best out of people when they’re calm, collected and smiling.
Our students are doing fabulously in their work placements and they’re getting some great feedback. They’re working in hospitality, construction, healthcare, facilities, security, retail, logistics…the list goes on. So, if you have a job that you think might fit one of them, get in touch and come along. It’s on 26th March at Nexus by Leeds University. We’d love to see you there!
29th January 2025 – Supported Internships
It’s supported internship applications time! And this makes me think about all the wonderful things that happen here at Lighthouse Futures Trust that we probably don’t tell you about as much as we could. It’s easy to say that we’re the best around, everyone says that right? You’ve got to. So, what does make us a college with a difference? Settle in, I’m going to tell you.
I think being relatively new in an organisation means that you can spot things, differences, uniqueness. What I see every day here is the kindness that goes into working with each and every intern that comes through our door. That extends to their families, carers and guardians too. We’re supportive, give fantastic advice (and help people see it through) and we fight for and represent our interns passionately, fiercely. We see the best in them and bring that out.
Everyone at Lighthouse Futures Trust is above all respectful and patient. Treat everyone as you’d like to be treated yourself and all that; we live that here. Yes, we push and challenge our young people – they must sometimes feel like they have 40 helicopter parents, but it works and I think they appreciate it.
We see our interns for who they are. Their colleagues are the same: interns are young people keen to get into work and have their independence. The social aspects of what we do also help with this. Work hard, play hard… sort of, we do make sure that they are able to have experiences that enable interns to try things, know what they like and where they like to go, and for some that’s brilliant, it helps turn things around and achieve that work/life balance we all strive for.
And there’s hot chocolate. So…if nothing else, we’ve got hot chocolate and that counts too. All I can say is to come and see for yourself. Feel the openess, honesty, warmth and support as you walk through the door. Try the hot chocolate, have a chat with us and some of the existing interns. We know we can make a difference in young people’s lives, and all of them make a difference to our lives. We love working here, what we do, and it’s a pleasure to work with our interns every single day.
The team are ready to receive applications now for young people aged 16-25 with an EHCP who are looking to get into work. Applications are made through EHCP plans and consultations. We look forward to hearing from you. The kettle will be on.
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15th January 2025: The first rule of Drama Club is…
The first rule of Drama Club is… Ok so it’s a cliche, but in some respects it’s important to know that you can ‘act’ with confidence in a drama club space; you can have a go and everyone will think that’s great. I know I certainly felt emboldened to leave the room “in the style of a crab” because I knew it was a friendly ‘safe’ space.
We wanted to set some rules for this club, and we don’t for others, because of this very reason. This is what the interns came up with:
- Have fun!
- No idea is a bad idea
- Laughter in the right places
- No interruptions
- Listen
- Relaxed
- Always try! No pressure
- Don’t be afraid to challenge
- Respecting others
Not a bad set of rules for the office or life either! Do you have a favourite? It’s hard to pick one. Following these we had a really nice time together. We smiled, we were patient with each other, we laughed a lot and all in the right places. Brilliant. Bring on the next one! I’ll be practicing my crab moves following some feedback last night.
We approached Clubs differently for 2025, we wanted things where we could all take a break from work and enjoy ourselves. And, if we learn something along the way, then even better. Drama Club is an important one to help the young people we work with develop their confidence, communication skills and creativity.
A desire for creative pursuits and jobs is something we’re coming across a lot when we’re talking to young people considering their next steps. Being able to offer Clubs and work in partnership across the city with creative organisations over the next year will hopefully result in us being able to bring more opportunities to our young people. If you’re interested in getting involved, then we’d love to hear from you. More hands make light work and all that!
Exits in the style of a crab…
8th January 2025: Too much time alone is too much time alone.
It’s been an interesting break from college in that I’ve spent quite a lot of it inside on my own (if you don’t count two cats and a tiny bunny.) And whilst extreme low temperatures are keeping me inside, it’s given me the opportunity to reflect on a couple of things: I truly miss the company of others, and I’d probably be quite rubbish if I ever applied to take part in Traitors or Bake Off or Pottery Throwdown, and I’m probably watching too much TV at this point… What I want to talk about for this week’s LFTWednesdays is the importance of being around other people.
My youngest cat likes being outside. He’s made a friend across the street, and they knock around the estate like kids used to in the ‘good old days’. He’s finding being stuck inside very frustrating, and I have the scratches to prove it. There’s been no end of pining at the front door, wandering around howling, and despite there being boxes, packing paper and so many stuffed mice to play with, it just doesn’t work for him and he wants to go outside and play with his mate from across the road.
These long winter weeks when the night seems to start even before you’ve shut your laptop for the day and we just want to return to the cocoon of our homes (for those of us who have this luxury) it’s easy to forget just how much we need the interaction with other people – our mate from across the road. It’s important for us all to keep that social connection, and one that you can’t make from merely WhatsApping someone or scrolling through their feed. We need to be out and about with other people.
This is especially important after prolonged periods of time when we’ve been out of our usual routines, like the long holidays when students (of all ages) are away from educational settings. I know I feel like I’ve been in solitary confinement for two weeks, and really benefited from being back in the office, amongst other people, and settled into my trusted routine again.
One of the things that makes Lighthouse Futures Trust a bit different from other supported internship organisations is that we champion the development of an individual’s social life. As well as offering our interns a range of free clubs that they can take part in, we also run a monthly social club for past alumni too. Our clubs are designed to help our young people explore Leeds and the social activities it offers, and we do it in a relaxed and caring way to make sure that all the young people we work with feel they are able to have the same social experiences that others their age take part in.
If I’m honest, the clubs are good for me too! They stop me from sitting on a sofa for another evening and I get to hang out with a lovely group of people who always make me smile. So, as I return to throwing tiny toy mice across the kitchen, I encourage you all to get out at least once a week and remember what it’s like to connect, make new friends, visit nature, experience all that Leeds has to offer, and just enjoy yourself.
4th December 2024: The importance of being able to ask questions
Never be too old or too shy to ask. That’s the topic of today’s LFTWednesday post – never stand in your own way of asking, ‘Why?’, ‘Can I just check that again?’, or ‘Will you show me? I’ve no idea how to do it.’ I think there’s something quite admiral in being able to hold up your hand and say, ‘I’ve forgotten…’ or ‘Can you give me some pointers on?’ As they say, every day is a school day.
As we welcome younger people into our businesses and networks, we need to remember to provide positive role models for them. And part of that means being brave enough to show our flaws. Let them know it’s ok to ask if they don’t know how to do something, or what something means.
Many of the young people we work with at Lighthouse Futures Trust face daily challenges from social anxiety. They’re working on it though, and we see them improve every day. Some of them even stood on a stage at ASDA this week and presented to a packed room. We honestly couldn’t be more proud.
We advocate for asking questions here. They’d love to come to your company and ask questions too – find out what you do, what your workplace is like, why you don’t wear a three-piece suite and pocket square to the office… Young people come through secondary schools and colleges like ours being positively encouraged to take an interest, join debating clubs, talk in front of others, so let’s remember that spirit we had in our youth and join them at it!
No more sitting at our desks wondering where that folder is, how to use the scanner, what the code is to the back office, and how to access the all staff calendar. Do it this afternoon! And if anyone asks you what might seem like a ‘daft’ question (no question is a daft question, remember) then don’t give them a hard time about asking it. You might need to ask the next one!
27th November 2024: Top Tips for Beating Interview Nerves
Everyone gets nervous about interviews. Feeling nervous is a natural feeling that everyone gets in certain situations. And that means beating nerves is hard work and preparing yourself affectively can make a huge difference. So, for this week’s LFTWednesdays we’ve asked our Supported Employment Coach to give us her top five tips for beating interview nerves:
1. The first thing to remember is that if you’re nervous, that probably means you’re excited about getting an interview for a job you really want.
2. Don’t think of it as an interview – just go and be nosey! Switch how you think about the meeting in your head and remember that it’s also about you considering if you want the job or to work with the people you meet.
3. Dress to impress! You may think it’s just about the answers to the questions you’re asked, but it’s also about how you look and behave in a meeting.
4. Keep a record of the jobs you’ve applied for so you can revisit the job description before the interview. Can’t find it? You can always ask an employer to send your a job description to you beforehand.
5. Make notes and take them with you. Research the company: look on their website and social media. Use this research to write down questions to ask or work into conversation things you’ve seen online…”I read on your website that you are…”
There are lots more ways to tackle interview nerves, and we’d love to know how you handle yours!
20th November 2024: Team Leeds!
This week for LFTWednesdays we’re talking about “Team Leeds”. Yesterday, we were at Leeds Rhinos Foundation’s fabulous event at Headingley Stadium. We heard from many organisations, but the main theme running throughout was the importance of us all coming together to support young people in Leeds to flourish. No matter who you are, what you look like, or the challenges you face, there are organisations out there who can help young people progress.
We are always looking for the next opportunity for our young people: who can they meet, what can we show them, who will inspire them? And we’re actively looking for partners to work on some great projects that we have in mind. But, we’re also up for working on other projects too. Please get in touch!
One of the tricky things about getting a job, for anyone, is that it can often be about ‘who you know’. As a college, being able to introduce our students, to lots of different people opens more and more doors to them. Leeds has always been a city of ‘best kept secrets’ where we have lots of brilliant organisations doing lots of brilliant things, but not everyone knows about them. Bring on the partnership working, bring on Team Leeds!
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6th November 2024: Disability Pay Gaps
As a woman once told she couldn’t be considered to manage a factory (probably no bigger than a Nandos) because the Director didn’t want me to get “hurt” or “upset” it grinds my gears to hear of people not being able to reach their potential due to someone else being unable to step outside of their comfort zone.
Someone recently sent me the 2023 census statistics for employment amongst those with a disability, which is really where this LFTWednesdays Blog originated, and it was a surprising (and painful) read. Read it here: Disability pay gaps in the UK – Office for National Statistics
As you’ll know from Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion training at work, there are a set of ‘protected characteristics’ within the Equality Act which help to protect us all at work and in our day-to-day lives. All of us have or will come up against something in this list at some point, even if it’s only feeling (or being considered) too old to do a particular job. The protected characteristics, in case you don’t know them are: age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
We’re all protected by law from being harassed, judged, excluded, overlooked, stereotyped, bullied… based on these characteristics. We’re all in there and all expect to be treated nicely; do as you would be done by and all that.
Why is it then, and excuse a rant here, that those with any kind of disability, on average, get paid less? If they have parity of skills and abilities it makes the situation worse. What makes Person A better than Person B who maybe can’t hear as well or might need things explaining a bit differently? I’ve worked with plenty of people without disabilities that need things explaining repeatedly and still don’t get it right. Why do they get paid better?
The 2023 census data shows that disabled employees with autism experienced one of the widest pay gaps (27.9%), along with disabled employees with epilepsy (26.9%) and severe or specific learning difficulties (20.3%). That just seems wrong. If we’ve got equitable ways of working in place (and so what if “it’s always been done like that”, let’s change it this time) then everyone can get done what they need to. That’s all anyone wants, to go to work and get stuff done.
We’ve come so far over the past few decades, we have women in the workplace and everything, but we still stumble over some of the protected characteristics. It feels like we need to make a massive national effort to tackle them each at a time, when in reality, we’re just talking about regular people, the same as you and me, that need you to make a couple of adjustments. Maybe I’m asking for too much for us all to change our habits, but we can start to question ourselves more and wonder what it is that we consider so hard about recruiting and working with someone with a disability.
30th October 2024: Festival of Light
It’s Diwali this week, and as I was mulling over what to write for this week’s LFTWednesdays I realised that this is a great opportunity to explore the ‘Lighthouse’ in Lighthouse Futures Trust. It’s one of the things you keep asking us to talk about: who are we and what do we do?
I remember watching Blue Peter back in the 80s, and they described Diwali as ‘The Festival of Light’ and that’s always stuck with me. Looking into it to write this, I found the description: inner light that protects from darkness. Wow – that sums Lighthouse up in a metaphorical nutshell.
As well as the obvious meanings of the word ‘Lighthouse’, standing proudly on a cliff shepherding travelers safely to shore, or a ray of light cutting through darkness, we sometimes get described as a ‘beacon of hope’. But we’re more than that; we’re lighting a candle on your windowsill when you’ve got in from work, settled into your PJs, and nod off whilst trying to watch Bake Off with a hot chocolate. We’re safe, comfortable, and somewhere you can call home.
Plus, our empathy, knowledge, lived-experience, and individual-based approach means that we wrap around our students like a comfy old cardigan. Lighthouse Futures Trust is a place you can learn in a way you personally need to, make friends who ‘get you’, do things you never dreamed you’d ever be able to do. Our young people are developing skills to help protect themselves from their inner darkness. And we’re here to support them as they do.
So light that candle when you get home tonight, and think about all those things you do that protect yourself and others from the darkness.
23rd October 2024: Top Tips for getting an EHCP
Is it me or would it be easier to predict the lottery than get an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) for your young person that you know definitely needs one? I’ve always liked the phrase ‘hen’s teeth’ and it strikes me that sums the EHCP process up quite well.
It’s careers fair season, as you may have noticed from the photos we’ve been posting on our socials and one of the questions that we always have to ask is, ‘Do you have an EHCP?’ because ridiculously on top of everything else, that’s where the funding sits. So, it’s really hard to get an EHCP and then specialist organisations can’t work with you if you don’t have one. Talk about knocking someone when they’re down. That’s a whole group of young people that as a society we’re essentially failing.
EHCPs were in the news last week. The article on the BBC website quoted Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner, as having said that, “At such a crucial time developmentally, every day a child waits for support could permanently alter their life”. You can read the full article over on the BBC.
Last week, at one of the careers fairs, a parent asked me what an EHCP is, to which another parent passing by replied, “You’d know if you’ve got one.” Meaning that you’d have the battle scars to prove it. And it’s not just the trauma of having to argue your case repeatedly with an over-tired looking SENDCo, of Head of School, it’s the time and admin associated with it too. You feel like you’re a qualified educational needs practitioner yourself after a while.
Here are our SENDCo’s top tips for getting an EHCP.
- Parents OR school can apply for an EHCP. If your school won’t apply, put in an application yourself and school will then be legally required to provide their evidence and information. Doctors cannot apply.
- Get your evidence ready. Collect anything and everything you can do and submit it together. Don’t leave the EHCP reviewer to access evidence, send it all to them with the application – they just don’t have the time to put to each and every one that comes across their desk.
- Even if someone is coping with interventions that are in place, do not assume that these would be able to continue and/or be replicated at the next setting they move to, for example moving on to a new school. Be clear about what your young person needs and what life is like without the interventions.
- Give context and timelines – be really thorough with what has happened and when. Don’t just think about what’s happening at the moment.
- Likewise, make sure that you provide information about all areas of need as this is often left off, and can be one of the reasons that people are not successful.
There’s a lot of information on completing forms and applying for your EHCP on the Leeds Sendiass website.
16th October 2024: Supported Internships
Whilst rummaging around for the Leeds Inclusive Employer Network banner in a cupboard full of banner cases that all look the same, one of my colleagues mentioned that there was a shout-out for supported internships on breakfast tv yesterday. I don’t know about you, but all I’m capable of in a morning is drinking my coffee whilst trying to summon the energy to wrestle my cat off my breakfast, never mind watching serious people talking about serious things. Hence why I’m a day late talking about #supportedinternships. So, here is this week’s Lighthouse Futures Trust longform Blog – also on our website.
We asked on LinkedIn last week what people would like to hear more about from Lighthouse Futures Trust, and one of the things that came out on top was ‘what do you do’ and whilst we’re endeavouring to be more chatty and have more of an online and community presence, you’re correct in saying that we can do much better at telling you what we do. And following on from a tv appearance of the topic ‘supported internships’ it’s only right that today we start to unpick what that is and why they’re important.
We all did work experience at school. We were told that we had to and if you were lucky your parents knew someone who worked somewhere cool and so you were shipped off for five glorious days with cool ‘Aunty’ Jane to work at that place with the table tennis table. I swept up and washed hair for five days, and for someone that doesn’t like touching other people, and wasn’t that brilliant with strangers at age 16, I had a really awful time. Was it useful? Did I learn about the world of work? No. The highlight I remember was when one of them offered me a lollipop. I still went back to school none the wiser as to why we work or what on earth I wanted to do.
A series of jobs later and here I am at Lighthouse, finally understanding what I want from work, where I want to be and what I can offer. But what if we can offer that to young people earlier on? What if we didn’t need to fall from one job to another, a bit haphazard, whilst your parents unhelpfully ask why you never stay in one place for long? And let’s face it, I could move around and try different things. Aside from being an overly chatty female in sometimes male environments, it didn’t stop me from doing the things that I wanted or didn’t want to do.
How does that work if you have a disability, you’re neurodivergent, or you just can’t get on with a ‘traditional’ school or college environment?
Not only are there less opportunities but there are less employers (and their employees) who understand how to work with people that don’t look or work exactly like they do. We have one student who has successfully secured seven job interviews, but from which we’re hearing the same outcomes. In a lot of the cases, the people doing the interviews themselves maybe haven’t had unconscious bias training or don’t know how to get the best out of people – not all of us are good at interviewing and anything past the list of questions that HR have given us can be a challenge for some.
Supported internships therefore put us in a different position. They’re a year-long work placement where everyone has been trained and prepped for working together. Technically classed as a final year in education, the internship follows the academic year calendar, giving the student downtime to manage the change to working life, and they have a dedicated job coach supporting them the whole way through. For the employer, there is also training and support so that they know the young people they will be working with and the buddy/intern relationship is strong and works better. No one is left alone to flounder or feel uncomfortable, and everyone learns and grows. It’s a win win for everyone involved.
Are supported interns sweeping floors and washing hair? Only if that’s what they want to do! Ours are preparing and cooking meals in workplace canteens, checking your tax returns, taking your blood at the hospital. We’ve got dairy operatives, risk analysts, security officers, business administrators…the list goes on.
Supported internships are a game changer. They’re allowing those of us who have been previously overlooked into work. They’re allowing those of us who thought we couldn’t or would never have a job to be able to succeed. They’re a different route into employment and earning our own income than going down the ‘traditional’ and often overwhelming routes.
There are more people out there needing employers to consider taking on supported internships. So if you’re reading this and you think you’d like to give it a go, then do get in touch and we can talk. We look forward to hearing from you.
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9th October 2024: Dyslexia Awareness Week: Let’s make our content inclusive!
I’m five foot one and “growing up” my Nan always used to tell me that good things come in small packages. So in my second week at Lighthouse Futures Trust when I sit down at my desk to write something for LinkedIn about Dyslexia Awareness Week I ask myself what on earth am I doing? Why am I writing more words for those who have had to develop coping strategies to process content?
Being five foot one, I have had to develop coping strategies for accessing day-to-day life, and all those things that supermarkets insist on putting on the top shelf…am I not supposed to enjoy those particular bottles of wine or shoes? So why would I purposefully create content that isn’t inclusive or accessible trying to discuss inclusivity and accessibility. Makes no sense.
My partner is dyslexic and over the past few years I’ve learned a lot about what it means and all the different glorious elements that he and we manage. What we’ve had to create coping strategies for, not least of all the one where a relentlessly early-arriving super-organised person started dating a persistently late and completely disorganised person…why keep everything you own in the car?!
So here I am part way through my Shakespearean monologue and it’s about this point that I should also be throwing in emojis left right and centre. Let’s talk about those too. Never mind a senior person like me trying to fathom out whether I’m asking someone to kindly bring me home a certain vegetable from the supermarket or whether I’ve actually said something a bit more spicy, imagine running the gauntlet of a sentence and LinkedIn post spattered with emoji’s like a Jackson Pollock.
Remember how annoying it is when you’re happily zoned out listening to your favourite music when suddenly you’re presented with ‘Message from WhatsApp. Home. Please grab milk whilst you’re out’. How distracting is that to your daydream of personally being invited up on stage to knock out your favourite song with that artist you think is the bees knees?
Including all these tiny images, and their associated meanings, that we’re scattering willy nilly in our text, how can they possibly be helping make our words any more inclusive or accessible? Heavens, I’m still trying to remember when to use a colon or a semicolon never mind dealing with anything else.
I’ve therefore made a decision. Wednesdays at Lighthouse are for long-winded comms and everything else is going to be short and sweet; enough for us all to manage and quick and easy for us all to process.
Welcome therefore to #LFTWednesdays.