Sarah’s blog
Sarah Dunwell is CEO of the Create Foundation and has 20 years’ experience in the corporate and business sector. After a number of senior roles in customer service and retail management, Sarah led her own successful catering business.
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01 November 2011
As the company grows I know more deeply how important brand is, just as long as we understand brand as the very grain of the wood, built up over years of growth, and not just a veneer which covers something cheap and substandard.
03 June 2011
Now far be it from me to use my blog to let off a little steam or pick a fight. Far be it from me to pick a fight with Liam Black, especially seeing as we’re having lunch in Leeds next week!
14 March 2011
I, like everyone else, have spent much of the last few days thinking about the earthquake in Japan. We don’t know yet what the full extent of this tragedy will be and there are, even now, new stories unfolding which further illustrate the full magnitude of the events.
06 February 2011
It’s been a busy couple of weeks all in all. After months of preparing for investment and planning the roll out of our business in lots of locations, we are full steam ahead! This is brilliant news and a very exciting time.
01 December 2010
This week I received a letter and a certificate from David Cameron to say he had been aware of CREATE for a while and was delighted to announce that we were the second winner of the Big Society Award, a scheme he launched a couple of weeks ago.
08 November 2010
Historically the Bridewell is an interesting place. I say this partly because the Bridewell Taxis was an under-rated 1980s Leeds band, but I think I also say this for more significant reasons today.
01 November 2010
I am not a big fan of the on-this-day-in-history-inspiration-and-motivation-start-to-the-day thing but today seemed different. The first of our graduates from Create’s pre-employment training academy started work in the new Morrison’s store in Leeds AND there was a national announcement that Morrison’s would commit 1000 jobs in its stores to people who have come through the CREATE training programme.
13 October 2010
I once heard the story of a vicar of a small country church who stood up and started his sermon one Sunday morning. “Every six seconds a child dies in Africa and most of you this morning don’t give a fuck. And what is really worrying is that most of you are more offended by the fact that I just said fuck, than that two children have just died in Africa”.
04 October 2010
Last week I won an award in the Yorkshire region as the Outstanding Business Woman of the year and ended up doing an hour long broadcast on the local BBC…a kind of Desert Island Discs. I say this not to show off, but because this week I seem to have gone mainstream.
10 September 2010
I am not always a big fan of the big smoke, but yesterday London was great. Actually, I think London was probably the same as it always was but the day itself was great!
