progress on Freshsight research for Dyslexia Pathways CIC and intrim report etc

Hi blog readers hope you are well.

Apologies my blog is a little late this week.

My father in law passed away on Friday 6th at 3pm after battling a long illness. He was surrounded by his family who all loved him. He was like the dad I never had to me. We will all miss him.

RIP Tom Smith

News from Freshsight:

For those who do not know Freshsight are a student lead business consultancy from Edinburgh University. The provide business consultancy services to charities and social enterprises. The carry our a programme of work as required for an 8 week period at a cost of £250. The team of 6 are doing great work for us.

Freshsight sent me a new video last week. The team went out and about at Edinburgh University asking about dyslexia and nuero difference. They got a lot of interesting and diverse responses:

FreshSight Interim Report on Dyslexia Pathways 5/11/15

The Client

During our initial client meeting, we established that

our client’s primary goal was to establish a physical

presence for Dyslexia Pathways in the form of a

dyslexia centre. The centre would primarily provide

services such as training and advocacy about the

neurodiverse community. Our client is additionally

interested in building a number of units to lease

within the centre, where creative dyslexics could

work together and establish their entrepreneurial

ideas. The client envisions the centre to be self-

funding through revenue generating streams such as

a heritage cafe.

The Deliverables

After analysing the business model of the Dyslexia

Centre and assessing its viability, the FreshSight

team realised that all individual components of the

centre require bespoke research as they appeal to

different target audiences. For example, the target

market for the informational session on Dyslexia is

different to the target market for leasing out the

creative units within the centre.

Therefore, after researching all individual aspects of

the Dyslexia Centre, we have divided our final

deliverables into the three overarching dimensions.

and finally competition time reminder:

 

Just to remind everyone about our design a positive dyslexia tee shirt logo completion for young people 16 years old and under.

 

As part of Dyslexia Pathways CIC Unique Dyslexic campaign we are running a competition for young dyslexics 16 years old or younger.

We are asking young dyslexics to design a dyslexia positive logo for a tee shirt as part of our Unique Dyslexic Campaign. You don’t have to be a fab artist to enter it’s about showing us your ideas.
The logo itself can only be a maximum of three colours (more colours = more printing costs)
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The winner will be chosen through our social media on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest etc.
I will be setting up a Facebook album and Pinterest board where entries will be posted and seen by our social media followers.

All you need to do is send in a photo or a graphic file of the finished logo design to steve_mccue@hotmail.com and I can post it on our Facebook page.

Or entries can be posted directly onto our Facebook page. All we need name and e mail address of a parent / carer or teacher so that we can contact the winner at the end of the competition.
The prize will be a tee shirt with the winning logo printed on it. We may be able to throw in another small prize along with this. Perhaps a copy of Text Help Gold Student Edition.
If there is anyone wants to donate a prize that would be gratefully accepted.

Information on our social media why not have a look

or give us a like etc

https://www.facebook.com/Unique-Dyslexic-Get-Creative-1431413910440768/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/unique.dyslexic/

anyway enough for today take care and remember

#dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diversity