Recent News from the Craighead Institute includes

• Receiving the Mentoring Business Project of the Year award from Scottish Mentoring Network for our work in providing one-to-one coaching and mentoring support for twenty-one small and medium enterprises (SME's) in the voluntary and faith sector across Scotland
  
• Supporting the Chance to Thrive Project - one of our associates Ian McKenzie is working as a volunteer client mentor on this innovative project which will support 8 congregations in some of the poorest communities in Scotland to develop their own initiatives in partnership with others in their communities. The Institute is actively exploring other ways in which we can support this exciting work
  
• Time away; the Ignatian Retreat in September 2011 for staff, directors and associates and the subsequent development of new structure to lead the Craighead Institute in the coming years
  
• Working for Oxfam on the Humankind Index which included collaborating with the New Economics Foundation, the University of Glasgow and Northern Star
  
• Delivering a 9 month Management Development programme with North London Hospice
  
• Welcoming 8 new graduates from our Diploma in Consultancy and Facilitation
  
• The arrival of our very own PhD; Pauline Petrie has been awarded her Doctorate by Glasgow University. Her thesis focused on the methodology of the Craighead Institute

More of the Craighead Institute's working highlights of 2011 can be found in the newsletter

From early 2012 we will be:

• Running training programmes on Developing the Organisation through Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector  
  
• Starting a new Diploma in Organisational Development for Leaders and Consultants (March 2012)
  
• Delivering training and development for the boards and staff of the World Association for Christian Communication, Toronto
  
• Running action learning sets as CPD for all those who have been through the Diploma Programme
  
• Extending our coaching and mentoring service
  
• Continuing to deliver our course on Integrating Life and Faith in Liverpool and in Romania
  
• Developing more support programmes for African religious congregations
  
• Staffing the Bayswater Working Conference, Managing Complexity
  
• Staffing an International Leadership Programme in Rome