Jeff Banks (@JeffBanks2018) profile picture

CEO of Lightyear Foundation & consultant in health/education/social care. Former ICS Director of Strategic Partnerships. Views my own, retweets ≠ endorsement.

Essex, United Kingdom
Joined November 2018
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Fantastic to be invited to attend @newscilive as guests of Zee Dinally and the team @ Immersive Experiences @360experiences Proud to be charity partner of this brilliant #STEM company. Meeting so many inspirational disabled young people, their parents/carers and STEM educators.
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Have you tuned in to episode three of Squar3roots Podcast yet? In “The magic of science with Chloe”, Chloe discusses her passion for STEM with Rosie.
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We were thrilled to recently win the Gold Award at the Communicate Magazine Corporate Engagement Awards for our partnership with ApotheCom in the category of Best pro-bono work for a charitable, social or ethical cause. communicatemagazine.com/news…
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We had the pleasure of meeting Lakhile at the podcast’s launch party on Monday, and his energy and enthusiasm was absolutely contagious. His performance of his own song, Made it Through i.mtr.cool/hwzvaabnos had the whole room clapping and singing!
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There was lots of cheering, applause, and new friends made! Some of us even shed a tear or two.  Episode 2, “Driving into STEM with Dylan” is launching this evening at 6pm - subscribe to the podcast on your favourite platform and get your notifications on so you don’t miss out!
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It’s been a week since the Squar3roots podcast launch party and I think Rosie has just about recovered! It was a lovely event which invited past and future podcast hosts to celebrate the launch of the podcast.
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Pleased to be supporting a thriving #thirdsector by contributing to this awards programme as a judge. A really interesting experience! Good luck to all the entrants! thirdsectorawards.com/#Judge…
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We were surprised and delighted to be nominated for this prize by a partner organisation. Could you give us a little vote please? 🙏
We need your help! We would love your nominations for The Children & Young People Movement for Good Special Draw. Please follow the link below to nominate us and share with your networks. i.mtr.cool/kvbgqhzlbx
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Great to be with colleagues from @lightyear_fdn for the @STEMLearningUK special schools conference today. Lots of valuable insights and proud to be speaking at the close the event later. 👍
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As part of our Strategic Plan development, we are asking a series of questions to get people thinking about disabled and neurodivergent children and young people and STEM.  Today is the FINAL day and we are asking:
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As part of our Strategic Plan development, we are asking a series of questions to get people thinking about disabled and neurodivergent children and young people and STEM.  Today is the SECOND day and we are asking:
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As part of our Strategic Plan development, we are asking a series of questions to get people thinking about disabled and neurodivergent children and young people and STEM.  Today is the FIRST day and we are asking:
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Please do look out for this next week. Your help would be much appreciated. 🙏
Lightyear Foundation exists to support disabled and neurodivergent children and young people to engage with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
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Truly inspiring conversation with Julie Eshleman yesterday about #STEM and how Assistive & Adaptive Tech is changing the world with/for disabled people. Great stuff! @lightyear_fdn
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We’re so excited for our project F1 Lightyear Labs to be a part of this year’s #RAEngIngenious scheme funded by @RAEngNews. Find out more about the programme and the impact it has on engaging communities with engineering across the UK: raeng.org.uk/ingenious @f1inschoolsUK
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