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Monthly Archives: June 2014

‘Women Returning to the Workplace’ Centrica Roundtable

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, June 25, 2014 — Uncategorized

Jill Shedden is a member of the Women’s Business Council and is Group HR director at Centrica plc

Jill Shedden, Women’s Business Council member, Group HR director at Centrica plc. discusses the challenges and support available to women returning to the workplace. Supporting women in returning to the work place is a real issue. Having been on maternity leave twice in my career I know first hand the importance of having a supportive…
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Thoughts on the Centenary

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, June 24, 2014 — Culture

Helen Grant is the Minister for Sport and Tourism

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It’s now only a few weeks to go before we get to 4 August, the point when – one hundred years ago, to the day – Britain entered the First World War.  It’s an auspicious moment, of course, and when it arrives I imagine there will be as many different responses as there are people…
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My family’s First World War

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, June 12, 2014 — Culture

Clare Pillman has been a director at DCMS since March 2011 and is currently Culture and Sport Director. Clare joined the civil service in 1992. Since then, she’s spent time at the Treasury and the Department for Constitutional Affairs as well as DCMS.

DCMS Culture and Sport Director Clare Pillman looks at her own family’s First World War journey from rugby internationals to serving on the front line, signifying how the sports stars of the time were called into duty. ‘I shall never play at Twickenham again’ were, reportedly the last words in public of Lt Ronald Poulton Palmer, the formidable…
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