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Business continuity planning and management
OverviewAre you completely confident in your organisation's ability to continue operating despite a major interruption? Loss of IT is the most common interruption suffered by organisations, regardless of size or sector, but how would you fare with other problems, such as:
- Severe weather
- Pandemic flu or other disease outbreaks
- Terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure or crowded places
- Flooding
- Fraud
- Fire
- Theft
- Transport system failure
- Major industrial accident
- Any other threat particularly relevant to your organisation?
All too often, when the unexpected happens (eg, extended periods of snow, flooding, a key employee being ill, a long power-cut), a lack of planning has made it difficult for organisations to continue their activities. Some businesses actually go out of business as a result.
This very practical course helps you analyse all the issues that might affect your organization: not just the obvious major risks which hardly ever happen (eg, fire or terrorist attack) but the smaller risks which are actually the most common cause of problems for most organizations (eg, loss of IT, power or key personnel). You will leave the day with a new focus on the continuity issues faced by your organisation as well as the information and tools to cope with minor setbacks as well as major disasters. Remember – volcanoes can affect us all!
Training objectivesBy the time you leave this course you will have a firm grasp of:
- 'Business continuity' versus 'Disaster recovery'
- How to identify the risks which affect continuity of business – and how to mitigate them
- The range of disasters which can seriously affect business
- The importance of all employees playing a part
- The need for awareness training for all employees
- How to prepare and review a plan
- The importance of communication and call trees
This course is designed primarily for Board members, senior managers and department heads. It emphasises the need for awareness training for all employees and can be tailored for such a 'roll-out'.
Participants in this highly practical one-day workshop are encouraged to take a pro-active approach, in small team discussions, case studies and practical exercises. The dynamic nature of this course requires that the number of participants be limited to no more than 12 if maximum benefit is to be had from the day.
Special features
Your organisation's existing policies and procedures can be reflected in this workshop, which can also be tailored to suit your particular organisation and the types of risk of most concern to you. The activities may vary according to level of participants and type of organisation.
The expert trainer
Alison is an independent consultant and trainer in operational risk and compliance. Her training takes a very practical and common sense approach to the roles and responsibilities undertaken by all levels of course participants back in the workplace. With more than 25 years' experience in corporate banking, internal audit and latterly operational risk and compliance functions, she is energetically enthusiastic about raising awareness of risk issues amongst all employees, at all levels.
Course outline
Activity – Car park
1. What is business continuity?
- Activity – dingbats
- Why plan for business continuity?
- . . . that is the question!
- Some statistics to get you thinking
- Putting risks in perspective
- Rare or unusual events
- Common events
- Weather, theft and vandalism
- Some things we might forget
- Current issues affecting us all
4. The board / executive (essential knowledge for all employee levels)
- Responsibility and accountability
- Adherence to legislative and regulatory requirements
- Policies
- Delegation and supervision
- Insurance
- Details to be included
- Benefits / rewards / cost savings for your organisation
Activity – Car park (update)
6. Business impact analysis
- A common sense approach
- How to collect data
- Critical scoring example (red / green / amber)
- Example(s) of BIA spreadsheet(s)
- Insurance
- Others
8. Communication
- The importance of . . .
- Call tree(s) and examples
- Contractors and suppliers
9. The business continuity plan
- How it all fits together
- How to take it forward – review / update / training
- Activity – 'Day to day'
- Emergency pack
- Further information, useful websites, etc
Note: Activities may vary according to level of participants and type of organisation.


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St Mary's Square
Paddington Green
London W2 1LG
t: 020 7723 1968
Edgware road (5 mins)
Paddington (10 mins)
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Rob Bailhache
|PCC Secretary
|Nick Ember
|Ludwig Sels
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|Director of music
|Jonathan Cunliffe
The present St Mary's, the third on this site, was built in 1791 by John Plaw, at the junction of the (english) Harrow Road and the (roman) Edgware Road. It is a very ancient part of London, steeped in history. The church is a delightful, Georgian building within its own extensive graveyard and contains fine monuments (by renowned sculptors such as Physick, Derby and Blore) to local luminaries including Nollekens, Roget and Sarah Siddons.
The existing church of Saint Mary, Paddington Green was built under an Act of 1788, which authorised national collections and appointed 45 trustees, headed by Sir John Morshead and Robert Thistlethwayte. A small building of yellow brick with white stone dressings, its floor plan is that of a Greek cross, whose square centre lies beneath a shallow dome carried by four columns and whose four short arms have low segmental vaults.
The eastern arm forms a chancel, with a venetian window, and the other arms hold sections of a three-sided gallery. The south front forms the main façade, whose pedimented Tuscan portico is grander than the semicircular entrance porch to the west. A small clock tower and cupola surmount the dome. The church was begun in 1788 and consecrated in 1791, when it was widely admired. It is notable as Plaw's only surviving building, apart from a house on Belle Isle (Westmld.).
Mass at St Mary's is extremely popular with young families, as well as single people and older members of the Parish. A close and supportive congregation is both welcoming and friendly.
The liturgy on Sundays is a traditional High Mass with three sacred ministers and fine music provided by a voluntary choir. The reassuring formality of the liturgy provides a sound platform for an exploratory and challenging style of homily.
There is a Sunday School which welcomes children from nursery age. Baptised Christians of all denominations are invited to receive Holy Communion during the Mass. After the Mass there is an opportunity to meet other members of the congregation over refreshments in the Assembly Rooms across the churchyard. There are also Masses at 10am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.


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Option B by Sheryl Sandberg is a very personal yet universal look at being able to do what you need to despite setbacks that could be incapacitating.
Sheryl Sandberg had to take up her own quest to find an answer when she lost her husband – Dave Goldberg – in 2015. His tragic, untimely and sudden death left Sheryl, her two young children and the couple's large network of extended family and friends devastated. Sheryl thought that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. She wanted her children to grow up to be happy, normal adults without any ill effects of the tragedy that struck them at a young age.
Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, became her pillar of support in taking concrete steps to recover and rebound. With his help, not only did she come back stronger emotionally, but also wrote this book – Option B – sharing her personal journey as well as larger ideas around how to cope.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook and Dave Goldberg, CEO at SurveyMonkey were a celebrated power couple of Silicon Valley. Sheryl became much more than just a highly successful corporate executive when she wrote Lean In in 2013. Sheryl and Leanin.org stood for women at the workplace, their struggles, overcoming the hurdles and leading. In the book, Sheryl spoke about forging an equal partnership at home with her husband and how that has been a crucial cog in her success at work.
Given this background, it was natural that there would be a great deal of public attention focused on how Sheryl managed the aftermath of the tragedy. By writing this book, Sheryl has once again candidly opened up to public scrutiny her struggles, vulnerability and honest effort to overcome crisis – even talking about the touchiest topic of dating again. For that, she deserves a big applause from anyone human.
To not break down, to emerge out of sorrow, to find joy purposefully are not easy achievements given the depth of her tragedy. In addition to all that, to put together her journey coherently and to make it useful for others, is another scale of effort altogether. And for that, one admires and respects her unconditionally.
The book has an introductory section where Sheryl speaks fondly about how she met Dave, her past, her marriage with Dave and the unfortunate event of his sudden death while vacationing with her. The first chapter then starts at a year after Dave's demise. From there on, it moves between the immediate days of grief, going back to work, helping children cope and nurturing one's own emotional well-being. The narration still stays coherent for the reader like me who has been following Sheryl's Facebook posts and public speeches at least intermittently. Those who haven't, might have to work a bit harder to understand the flow of happenings.
I found four recurring themes – almost common threads holding Sheryl's narration together – Community, Communication, Research and scientific evidence, Religion and rituals. And to most of us, these as healers and support pillars don't come as a surprise.
Sheryl mentions many times how supportive her own and Dave's family has been. In addition to the family, she mentions several other friends from various stages of her life and how they all helped her a little in their own ways in finding her confidence, smiling and finding joy again, in coming back stronger. Moving out to another layer of community outside the immediate friend circle is her Facebook following.
She has been able to connect and converse meaningfully and honestly with a larger community on her efforts to cope up. The book reminds the reader of the tremendous role that family, friends and community play in one's life, specially during trying times. And for the millennial generation hooked on to social media, this may be something worth paying a great deal of attention to!
Throughout the book, Sheryl has emphasized the role of open, honest communication about one's emotions and issues in ensuring that those get addressed and sorted. Be it opening up at workplace, writing a journal, noting down moments of joy, letting children take cry breaks or sharing in social network communities, importance of communication and the strategies that Sheryl shares are a definite take-away for readers.
Emotional well-being and talking about intense emotional ups and downs (mostly downs) still remain off-limits in most conversations in our busy lives. The books does give one a strong reminder to get in touch with emotional quotient and check on it frequently. Another positive outcome of Sheryl opening up about all of this has been that emotions and their place in workplace is being put in a different – a little kinder and mellower light, or so one hopes at least!
The book liberally and generously quotes many researchers, psychologists and their findings on how human beings work. In fact the book comes with a 30+ pages long annexure of reference notes! Sheryl and her team have sifted through a lot and provided the readers the absolute gems of practical advice and implementable actions to help cope with crisis. The way Sheryl has been able to listen to hundreds of stories of fighters and survivors of all kinds around the world, empathize with them, narrate their stories in this book and offer the reader strategies that work, is outstanding.
Recurrence of this thread in the book came to me as a mild surprise, to be honest. Sheryl has elaborated on rituals around life's major events – wedding, death, mourning – in Jewish faith. One gets a sense that she does find the rituals comforting. Anything that has survived for centuries in human civilization has to have a strong significance and meaning for many, and she has brought out the delicate grace of rituals such as wedding vows beautifully. Sheryl has this uncanny knack of connecting with every-woman and her dilemma with wedding ring will touch many a heart for sure.
To anyone who is willing to examine the touchy issues of loss, grief, trauma and recovery with a logical lens, Option B offers useful insight. The writing style is easy, stories very relatable and the overall mood of the book is serious yet not too heavy. Definitely not a pleasant beach read kind of book, but it surely is no weepy tale either. In self-help category, this stands out for its research and scientific framework based backbone – the advice offered is of substance and not merely a temporary word-balm.
To sum up, it is very difficult to view Option B merely as a book – it comes with so much of history and personality of the people involved, that it becomes more of a part of an ongoing public dialogue on building resilience. Sheryl has started a non-profit initiative called OptionB.org that is a beneficiary of all income from the book. OptionB.org aims to help people build resilience and find meaning in the face of adversity. More power to them.
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Name : Tony Reid
Tony is a relative new comer to the sport, however has immersed himself in all aspects of it. Having been persuaded by his 2 playing sons to try out, Tony now plays as Centre on the Kings Offensive Line. Using his previous training experience and new football knowledge he has added Level 1 coaching to his many attributes.
He is a multi faceted asset to the Club and works hard to continue its positive development.
Name : Chan Phung
Chan is also former a Dunfermline Wildcat from 25 years ago and that's how he first met Sid and that friendship continues to this day, Chan started his football career as a RB and has also enjoyed a very successful career in the IT industry and brings all of that knowledge to the club. Chan plays with the Carnegie Steelers and last year also assisted with coaching to pass on his knowledge to new players. Chan has been instrumental to highlight that the social/friendship side of playing for a team/club is as important as what you do on the field and hopes the club members will appreciate the friendships they make will last a lifetime.
Flag Football Manager
Name : Stuart Anderson
2018 will be Stuarts 3rd season with the Carnegie family this season and played flag for our Renegades and Kirkcaldy Bulls. Coming from Basketball similar to a few other players in the club he spent 12 years from youth level to senior men national league with Dunfermline Reign.
Stuart currently runs his own Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 business providing Training, Consultancy and Support so brings a vast amount of IT knowledge and previous Social and Web Experience to the club.
Safeguarding Officer
Name : Carolann Davidson
My son has been part of the Dunfermline Saints youth program for a few years now. The club have always encouraged parents to take an active involvement in the management of the club and I was happy to take up the role of Safeguarding Officer.
I feel that as a parent I am ideally qualified and motivated to look out for the welfare of the kids in the club.
As well as manage the clubs PVG record for coaches I would also deal with any child concerns that arise.
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If you're only vaguely familiar with the Pantanal region of Brazil, that's understandable—it's been a tourist destination for less than 15 years. Ricardo Casarin, the guide assigned to us for the Pantanal portion of the trip, told us that the region was originally known for its great sport-fishing, and then in about 2006, fishermen started reported seeing jaguars—jaguars!—along the river banks. There aren't too many places where you can see those in the wild. Word spread, tourism grew, and today if you Google "Pantanal jaguar tours," you'll find plenty of tour operators eager to take you out on the rivers to find the big cats.
National Geographic has a good overview article on the Pantanal, which it calls "Brazil's best-kept secret." The Pantanal is an enormous wetland, 10 times the size of Florida's Everglades. It floods in the rainy season, and most people visit in the dry season—roughly May through September—when it's more marshy and more accessible. Plus, when the water recedes in the dry season, the wading birds and other wetlands species crowd into the water that remains, which makes the wildlife really concentrated and Read more


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Patients First is the provincial government blueprint for health care transformation. The document titled: "Patients First: a proposal to strengthen patient – centred care in Ontario" focuses on the obvious need to place patients/clients at the centre of health service. When I mentioned this to friends of mine, they quickly remarked; "….and you need a policy paper to say this?"
It seems like an obvious point, that patients should be first in the health care system. However, we know for many, including those we serve, that it's Patients Last. There is a shortage of services, long waiting lists and even denial of services, particularly for those who find themselves homeless and/or without health cards. This group has been given special attention in the background report to Patients First. The background report of the Primary Health Care Expert Advisory Committee identifies the need to provide universal access to primary care, something which has never been provided for the hard to serve. According to the report, these patients will be identified and assigned to a group in collaboration with public health, community health centres and local municipal services. According to the report, funding will be adjusted to provide for better service to these patients.
CMHA Niagara, Community Health Centres in Niagara, Niagara College, Brock University, and others in the Niagara Health Trust have documented their support for Patients First in a letter to the Honourable Dr. Eric Hoskins , Minister of Health and Long – Term Care We have noted the need to support those marginalized clients who care providers are reluctant to serve.
We know too well that these patients are found on the streets or in jail without much care for their complex needs. As a result, they live 25 years less than the average Canadian…a gross insult to our so -called universal access to care. CMHA Niagara helped to start Quest Community Health Centre, knowing that our population would be better served in the Community Health Centre model of care. We have a history of supporting good primary care and we will continue on this trajectory.
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Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1965, Taveras studied Fine Arts, sculpture in particular, at the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo. He has also participated in Non-toxic Printmaking workshops in New York, such as Silk Aquatint at Julio Valdez Studio and Solarplate with Dan Welden. He has taught at the Altos de Chavon School of Design, (Parsons The New School for Design affiliate in the Dominican Republic), where he has also been an Artist-In-Residence several times. He has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana, at UNIBE and Universidad Pedro Henriquez Ureña, both in Santo Domingo, and has had 10 solo national and international exhibitions, including the last two in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic and the Museum of the Instituto de Cultura Puertoriqueña, in San Juan Puerto Rico.
Taveras was an artist-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts and Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1996. His works have received numerous prizes in biennials and contests, including: Best Work of Art by a Foreign Artist, at the San Juan Association of Art Critics Contemporary Art Show, Puerto Rico, 2006, and Second Place in the 2nd Latin American Printmaking Biennal, at the Printmaking Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002. He has been recognized by Universidad Iberoamericana, one of the most prestigious universities in the Dominican Republic, for his lifetimes work and contributions to the fine arts. He has participated in more than 100 contests and group exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Bulgaria, Spain, Cuba, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Norway, Brazil, Belgium, Luxembourg and United States, among others. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Hunter College Ceramics Department and also Curator of Julio Valdez Project Space, both in New York City.


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The Peanut Gallery has a variety of irons available to you. From th lowly basic model of a dry iron to a state of the art auto cut off steam iron. From the domestic type of iron to the 24/7 industrial steam iron. We represent a variety of brands such as Ideal, Sunbeam, Russel Hobbs, Silver Star to name but a few. Along with the irons we supply a number of strong and various sized steel frame ironing boards.


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Our work — Medius
Medius: Better Sales and Marketing Alignment with Sales Cloud and Pardot
Medius is a leading global provider of accounts payable invoice automation solutions in the cloud. Founded in 2001, we now serve over 2,000 customers worldwide, and process 52 million invoices annually, with high density in retail, manufacturing and professional service sectors. Medius currently employs 220 accounts payable invoice automation experts working out of our headquarters in Sweden, and offices in the United States, Norway, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Australia.
We help our customers to achieve a touchless accounts payable process with greater control and less manual input. Our solutions MediusFlow and Ascendo Invoice enable a high level of fully automated invoice processing — some customers achieve more than a 90% touchless rate. This means our customers have more time to focus on the core of their business, and do what they do best.
Million annual invoices processed
Choosing a Future
Four years ago, Medius began their transition from a traditional software company to a cloud company. This impacted everything — the company culture, products, business model, customer focus and their overall perspective on business needed to change with them.
Medius realized that their CRM solution was not up to the task. It was complex and only available on-premise — not ideal for a cloud company. With their new solution, they wanted to combine power with ease of use to emphasize availability, performance, visibility, usability, and continued development.
Fluido became oMedius' choice of implementation and change partner because of the deep knowledge of Salesforce as well as easy and pragmatic business approach. Fluido's company size was also just right for Medius: large enough to be a solid company with great knowledge, and small enough to be pragmatic and fast-moving. It was great that Fluido was one of the partners Salesforce recommended — Medius team has enjoyed working with the Fluido team, and felt secure in the trust that Fluido could deliver what they promised.
Power and flexibility
Medius wanted a solution that offered enhanced usability through an intuitive user interface, that could easily be learned and implemented by their colleagues all over the world. Their goal was to gain better visibility, knowledge, and management of their entire sales process and particularly pipeline management. The project was owned by marketing and focused on sales process and customer management, but it was a company-wide implementation that affected a multitude of departments, including management, finance, consulting, delivery, support and of course sales.
Sales Cloud was implemented with integrations to other systems. Currently, Medius has approximately one hundred users company-wide contributing with their daily activities. In addition, they have another hundred users of Force.com.
"Fluido became our choice of implementation and change partner because of their deep knowledge of Salesforce and their easy and pragmatic business approach."
Increased Pipeline Visibility and Control
Medius is using Pardot B2B Marketing Automation by Salesforce for digital marketing and lead management. This has made it significantly easier to align marketing and sales organizations' activities. Instead of separate processes for marketing and sales, they have one lead and sales process.
It is clear for them internally that this project has brought better pipeline visibility, which supports day-to-day pipeline management and forecasting. The pipeline visibility and forecast capabilities enable Medius to interact with their sales organization like never before. Having a dialogue with the team and planning future actions becomes simple and smooth when they can see where they should grow or accelerate the pipeline.
Medius' employees are having an easier time with information, as this project has made relevant information more accessible across the organization globally. With Salesforce implemented by Fluido, Medius has better insight into their day-to-day business and also what lies ahead, including potential future business.
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Self-Standing Loading Docks Eliminate the Need for Costly Excavation
It's the month of DOCKTOBER! Challenge: The customer occupied a grade-level building with no simple tie-in for drainage. To enable it to expand operations, the company needed two dock positions installed at this section of the building. They did not, however, want to spend over $100,000 for the required excavation and drainage. Solution: An […]Read More ⊕
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