Director of Fundraising & Senior Responsible Officer for the Royal Marines Commando Experience Museum at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Views are mine.
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
📢📢Calling women high-performance sport coaches!
✅Turn your Monday thoughts into actions!
Applications for the next WISH cohort are open now.
Scan the QR for more info or click the link: bit.ly/wish_pathway
#WomanCoach #WISHcoach #womeninsport #wishpathway
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📢📢The WISH story continues... Part 4. Cohort 6 applications are now open!
#WISHcoaches #womancoach #womeninsport
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📢Get ready! Applications are launching soon — come be a part of our amazing WISH family! 📢
#Wish_Pathway #womancoach #wishcoaches
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26 Feb 2025
Once a marine, always a marine...
A former commando’s damaged green beret has been replaced by the #RoyalMarines during a special visit to his nursing home in Surrey.
Read more: royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/f…
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New podcast alert! We delve into 'the participant experience' with the awesome @rach_dh. With an insightful dual perspective (professional expertise and personal experience), Rachel discusses enhancing EDI in PPI. What does that mean? Tune in to find out! embededi.com/community/podca…
ALT A stick person drawing with two characters. The stick person on the left is sitting down underneath a poster that says "Embed EDI". They are talking and waving their hands. The stick person on the right is holding up a boom microphone and is standing beneath a sign that says "recording".
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
8 Jun 2023
Boat Keeper Wanted
Are you passionate about historic boats? We are looking for a Boat Keeper to care for and operate our fleet of historic vessels
If this sounds like your dream job, visit our website for details
pnbpropertytrust.org/vacanci…
Closing date for applications is 9 July.
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7 Jun 2023
A world class resource for anyone interested in evidence-based insights on women and sport
7 Jun 2023
Just released: Jan-April 2023 global research & industry insights on girls & women in sport inc. a new focus area on early intervention to prevent ill-health e.g mental health & menstruation. Enjoy the read #womensports
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5 Jun 2023
Great to see that after a fantastic fundraising campaign that saved The Armada Maps from export in late 2020 that we’re now able to put all 10 on public display for the very first time. #fundraising #heritage lnkd.in/emFp6cpF
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22 May 2023
Delighted to have led this campaign and to continue our track record stepping forward to save precious artefacts that are under threat of being lost abroad. lnkd.in/et5xjeES
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13 Mar 2023
New Gender Equality Through Sport Bridging Project, to eliminate gender-based violence. insidethegames.biz/articles/…. "I see no other field as powerful as sport to influence the next generation". @IWGWomenSport @GOGESport
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9 Mar 2023
So having watched this from the amazing @simsimpam (junior doctor and elite rugby player) I’ve a) shared this and b) decided to move my womens rugby related tweeting to my professional account to amplify the women that bit more. #FrontRowUnion instagram.com/reel/Cpi42F7oK…
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
7 Mar 2023
We are the women in @hmsprotector and we made this film for #IWD2023 with the talented videographer @CameronEden760 We are proud of what we do and wanted to tell our story in the form of a letter from one of our team to her Gran, who was in the WRNS. @navy_women @OfWrens
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8 Mar 2023
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They are often behind the scenes, on the sidelines, and rarely in the headlines. Yet, their role is right at the heart of sport. On International Women’s Day, we are celebrating female coaches paving the way for future generations @wish_pathway @UniofHerts
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
“ WISH is just one way that we can challenge systemic and structural barriers for women in and through sports. This isn’t just for one day,this is a long-term commitment.” ~ WISH Program Director Professor Elizabeth Pike @Elizabethcjpike
#InternationalWomensDay #EmbraceEquity
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
Same Identity. New Channels. Even Bolder!
We are updating our communications, improved not too different: just a little friendlier.
WISH has become a place where female coaches come to explore, grow, and belong. So we're updating our look to be just as welcoming!
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22 Dec 2022
I volunteered here at at Discover back in the day. This was, and remains, such an amazing and important organisation. Anyone in my network who is looking for their next leadership step should take a look. lnkd.in/en5ssHiM
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21 Nov 2022
Great opportunity down at Beaulieu with The National Motor Musuem for an early or career switch fundraiser / development professional. lnkd.in/e8q_Fahj
It’s time. 😢 Here’s the last contribution to our current #CommunityStories series.
Ahead of #WorldSightDay next week, @RYeomansWrites describes how mobility aids have helped him to navigate the world in more ways than one.
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#A11y #Usability #GuideDogs
ALT A photograph of Riley posed behind Yashka, his Guide Dog. They are sitting on rocks at Felixstowe Beach on a sunny day.
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This piece deserves amplification. Core costs and salaries are not a nice-to-haves, they’re integral to delivery. To pretend otherwise, is frustrating, demoralising, destabilises day-to-day delivery and denys the impact of losing continuity, expertise and…lnkd.in/e7WMrby2
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Helen McKenna-Aspell retweeted
23 Sep 2022
i love small offbeat museums that were clearly opened bc someone had a little bit of money, time, and obsessive passion for a weird/obscure subject…. especially if it’s run out of a house or a storefront
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