Our Blog

A place for our CEO, John, to impart his latest thoughts and findings on a range of issues.

Here are the latest headlines that concern him:

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What do Intoart, Time and Talents, Bal Polski and Ickburgh SEN school have in common? They all benefit from the voluntary expertise of Three Cs personnel at Board and Committee level and in turn provide our people with governance experience and skills. Three Cs has been giving its senior managers two days a year of paid work time to use in voluntary roles for over 10 years. That modest donation of time together with working flexibly makes being a voluntary director, trustee, or governor more manageable alongside paid work. Alison, Angela, Stuart and Jo told News at Three what it means for them and the organisations they support

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‘Water the plants on your way out Jo’

Anna Snowling | 1 September 2020

As I leave Three Cs after 12 years as CEO, I decided to dry my eyes and carry out an Exit Interview on myself instead.

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The kindness of others

Colin Richardson | 2 August 2019

‘How old was she?’ I was often asked that when I told people that my sister, Tessa, had died. ‘She was 57,’ I would reply, knowing what was coming next: ‘That’s a good age for someone like her.’

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I visited Tony at his lovely flat in Friendly Street Mews. He was very proud to show me around his spacious living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. It was very, very clean and tidy. “Much tidier than my house” I told him. We are both Arsenal crazy so we spent some time standing on his Arsenal rug talking about how Emery’s first season as manager had gone. We agreed it wasn’t too bad, but next season it needs to be better.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rightly gets a bad press when it involves tokenistic gestures by big corporates seeking to pacify government and public opinion in the cause of profit. Even well-meaning companies can misfire awkwardly in the cause of CSR. Like the rookie company offering to teach a 200 year old charity and it’s grandmother how to suck ‘business survival’ eggs (awks), or an unskilled team painting a whole community centre, badly, in the cause of saving a local charity time and money (not).

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Love your vote!

Anna Snowling | 24 March 2018

It is the eve of General Election 2017. I have no idea who the next government will be. What I do know is that the futures of adults and children with learning disabilities and/or autism, and anyone with a mental health problem, hang in the balance.

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In the style of true love

Anna Snowling | 24 March 2018

I have been told all my life that carrying tissues in your handbag is compulsory at weddings because you are bound to cry. As a result, I don’t usually carry tissues. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the tissues or the crying that I object to, it’s the handbag.

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Once upon a time there were three blokes

Anna Snowling | 24 March 2018

Once upon a time there were three blokes. One was blind, one had autism, all three had learning disabilities. The odds on ‘living happily ever after’ might have been better if the labels stopped there. All three had mental health and challenging behaviour labels. And all three had a reputation, shaped by words like ‘forensic’ and ‘dangerous’, the stickiest labels of all. All three were in-patients in NHS funded assessment and treatment units – like the infamous Castlebeck’s Winterbourne View – and/or equivalent secure residential units.

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A wish, a growl, and a Gr8 Support Movement…

Anna Snowling | 24 February 2018

We will all have slightly different memories of how the idea for the Gr8 Support Movement started. As this Paradigm project is being launched in May 2017, here are mine.

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Float like a butterfly, sting a … burger bun

Anna Snowling | 12 December 2017
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Frank and the Lidl Job Snob incident

Anna Snowling | 24 September 2017

Read the latest commentary from Frank in Community Living.

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Love Trumps Hate

Anna Snowling | 12 April 2017
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Frank comes to terms with some Brexit fallout

Anna Snowling | 12 September 2016