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Be Kind In a week that we celebrated World Kindness day (Wednesday 13th November) it is fantastic to see Surveyors again featuring on the Kindness and Leadership 50 leading lights awards list including the RICS longest ever serving president Amanda Clack https://kindness.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-candidate/2019/ “Kindness costs nothing to give but means the world to receive. You know …
Continue reading In a World where you can be anything….. – by Joanna Farnsworth
This year, I have been on a sustainability journey. Following my attendance at the joint IFMA UK and RICS Last Straw seminar, in April, you may recall I wrote a blog for Surveyorhood - you can read it here: The Last Straw. I immediately made some personal pledges and changes as a result of what …
"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." – [late] Toni Morrison Now that Black History Month has passed, and as we prepare for another ‘official’ celebration in October 2020, I’d like to take this opportunity to contextualise why that …
September is an important month for me. It is the month in which I was born, the month in which I married and this year September is the month in which I begin my 50th year in Construction. In some ways it is easy and glib to say I don’t know where the years have …
Continue reading 50 Years – Has it all been worth it? – By Kathryn Ladley
Joanna Farnsworth This week I feel that I have made a difference, it is difficult to measure but as a QS I really want to establish a way of doing so. I felt guilty about having spent so much of my time this week not sat behind the screen producing spreadsheets or reading contracts but out on …