Here is the Dyslexia Pathways CIC news lol

Hi Blog readers hope you are all well and ready for a new week........

I think I may have mentioned in a recent blog that I have been struggling with a lot of dyslexia related issues. Well I am slowly resolving these. For example I have restarted making actions lists and prioritising tasks from there and setting achievable goals.

Progress with Dyslexia Hub:

A week ago I met with the Fresh Sight team. They are a student lead business consultancy and they are be going to do 8 weeks work for us in and around the Dyslexia Hub. Now I will add names to the faces. Hay names and dyslexics lol. We met at the Old College at Edinburgh University, photo below. Its a very old building that oozes history. They will be sending me updates on the project on a regular basis and I will post them on my blog.

They are a social enterprise themselves who work with socially conscious organisations.

http://www.freshsight.com/

We are going to put together a Canvas Business model or plan for the Hub in the next few weeks and start looking for some initial funding to move this forward through a new fundraising campaign.

 

 

Fundraising:


We are going to be launching a new fundraising campaign in the near future to raise money for our work. Three possible on line funders are Go Get Funding, Go Fund Me or Just Giving. Any money raised will be used to help with our work on setting up the dyslexia hub, keep our websites up and running and our free information lines going etc. If there is anyone out there who could give us some advice on running a funding campaign or get involved with supporting us just leave me a comment at the bottom of my blog.

University work:

My dyslexia support work at universities has started up again which could not have happened at a better time for me personally as I have been struggling financially for a while now. I met with five new students last week. Two of which, like myself, struggled with schools who were not very dyslexia friendly and walked away from school. 

I think its fab that we see dyslexics at uni and doing well. However, I know that for many dyslexic kids, and their parents, attending schools that are not very dyslexia friendly the future can look a very bleak place. But we can overcome a society that effectively disables us and we can be successful and can achieve.

Dyslexia Pathways CIC and our Unique Dyslexic Campaign promote a more positive social model of dyslexia that says: #dyslexia is a difference the reflects #diversity. The main barrier for dyslexics is we live in a society that does not reflect, celebrate and enable people from the dyslexic and other neuro diverse communities. We can succeed and we can be successful, 35% on entrepreneurs are dyslexic as are over 50% of staff working at NASA.

Tee shirt competition:

Just a quick reminder of our Dyslexia Pathways CIC Unique Dyslexia Campaign Tee Shirt Competition

Its open to anyone 16 years old or younger
We want you to designs us a dyslexia positive logo
We will showcase designs sent in on our social media
The winner will be selected by people following our social media
All you have to do is send me a photo or a graphics file of you logo design. Parents or carers can send them for you
I will posted them on our Pinterest and Facebook where people can vote for the favourite

The winner will receive their design on a tee shirt and maybe we can throw in another prize

Anyways that's enough for me and bye for now.




PS here is our latest new tee shirt logo design. We will be taking pre orders soon