Glasgow’s inspirational Commonwealth Games shows sport is for all Everyone knows that the UK has a well-deserved reputation for putting on major sporting events.  So no one should have been surprised that Glasgow has more than delivered with a fantastic XX Commonwealth Games so far. I spent the weekend in Glasgow and the city has…

In her second blog as Women’s Business Council (WBC) member of the month, Fiona Woolf meets pupils from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School as part of the Inspiring Women campaign. Part of the http://www.inspiringthefuture.org/about/inspiring-women-campaign.aspx Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School 11th July 2014 The Education and Employers Taskforce charity was launched on the 15th October 2009 with the…

The Lord Mayor of the City of London and Women’s Business Council Member, Alderman Fiona Woolf, discusses the importance of widening diversity in the talent pool. On Monday 7th July, it was my pleasure to be the host of the AudaCITY event at the Guildhall. In attendance were the various Affinity Groups from across London…

I came across an interesting and rather inspiring story the other day about a soldier in Afghanistan.  I’m all too aware, of course, that there are literally hundreds – possibly thousands – of these little personal tales coming out of conflict zones and some, I suppose, have grown in the telling to take on the…