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How to Become a School Governor and What the Role Involves
Almost every primary school in the country has an empty seat on its governing board, and most of the people who could fill it...
Most gardeners end every season with a drawer full of half used seed packets and a nagging feeling that they should share them. If you want to start a seed swap in your neighbourhood, the hard part is not the seeds.
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Almost every primary school in the country has an empty seat on its governing board, and most of the people who could fill it...
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Plenty of men reach retirement, lose a partner or move to a new town and discover that their entire social life used to run...
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You have lived on the same street for years and still only know three neighbours by name.
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Most households own a drill that gets used for about 13 minutes in its whole life, and most streets have a dozen of them...
Volunteering
You have walked past the Saturday morning crowd in the park a dozen times, seen the hi-vis bibs and wondered if you could help...
Inspiration
Most adults decided long ago that they cannot sing, usually because a teacher moved them to the back row when they were nine.
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