Got a letter from a scottish MP congratulating me on winning the Level 2 Award from the Scottish Government's Social Entrepreneurs Fund and asking for a meeting. I am looking forward to this.

I also have a meeting with Skills Development Scotland also which my bring in some business if I am lucky. Of course it might not bring anying in at all but at least I am talking to the right people now.

What a fantastic event and opportunity to meet with so many brilliant social entrepreneurs. The weather may have been cold and wet but the welcome at New lanark was was warm and friendly.

A great big well done to The Wooden Spoon (Dundee International Women`s Centre) winning both the Dragons` Den and the Audience prizes. The Dragon's Den was certainly the highlight of the day for me. Ok Dyslexia Pathways didn't win the event but I certainly learned some lessons from all the other contenders tha… Continue

My company, Dyslexia Pathways has become a fully incorporated Community Interest Company social enterprise in July this year.

We won a contract to supply dyslexia support services to a university in Edinburgh and have some work coming through now on a regular basis. There is the prospect of more work coming through in the near future from other organisations.

Right now I am doing an e-shot and mail shot to attract more business.

I am going to a social enterprise ceilidh in a couple of weeks t… Continue

Been very busy since I last blogged here. Got some good news and some bad news. I have been short listed for InterAction leadership programme run by the Scottish Goverment and British Council. There are 28 places and 50 candidates so I hope I can do well on the final sel;ection day on June 16th.

I have now completed my application to become a Community Interest Company which is a form of social enterprise. Just gotta send it all off and wait and see.

I also have got a contract to supply dyslex… Continue

HEY PPLS, SORRY ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I BEEN ON HERE, I DON'T KNOW I SORT OF FORGOT ABOUT BEING DYSLEXIC. MY LIFEWAS GOING SO GREAT (INTIL I RAN INTO SOMEONE WHO BEAT ME UP....THATS A LONG STROY)

WHEN I FIRST FOUND OUT I HAD DYSLEX, I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER DO MY GCSE BUT LAST YOUR AUGEST 21ST 2008, I HAD MY RESULTS AND YEAH I HAD A TOP C....

I AM ASLO TRAININ NOW TO BE A PROJECT ARTS MANAGER.

SO GUYS AND GIRLZ YOU CAN DO IT, JUST TAKE YOUR TIME. IT TOOK ME 10 YEARS TO DO MY GCSE BUT I DID IT… Continue