@Found4TheFuture All views are my own 👍🏽
West Midlands, England
Joined September 2016
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Proud to be leading an organisation true to its values with a great team of people dedicated to making a real change to the lives of young people. This is proof that young people with the right communication methods will respond in a positive manor. #1community #mentors
Today we recovered 3 knives from young people who have come to us in confidence to hand over weapons they know are in the local area. This highlights the trust young people have in our organisation & that young people do want change also. #1community #knifecrime #Birmingham
13 years working in education and supporting young people and this is up there with one of my proudest moments! This young man continues to show that young people sometimes just need a simple opportunity and a helping hand to make them fly.
Next stop European and world champion
Last chance to vote for @Found4theFuture as social enterprise of the year for this years @BirminghamAward.
Please could you spare a minute and give us a vote following the link below!
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Thank you!
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Two people, two stories, and shared experiences of mental health, grief and loss. 🕊️
Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can do is open up, talk, and say you’re not okay.
A chat can save lives, you never know what somebody is going through behind their brave smile.
Let’s continue to break the stigma, start conversations, create safe spaces, and remind those who are grieving a loss that their feelings matter. Everybody deserves to be heard.
Check in on someone. Talk. Listen. Be there. ❤️
#Vertunissantamworth | #COYL
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As September comes to an end, so does Suicide Prevention Month. but that doesn’t mean we stop talking about it.
It’s okay not to be okay. We all fight battles in the dark that others may never see.
I know it can feel hard, and sometimes it can feel like there’s no way through.
Aaron Forde retweeted
I own a small 24/7 Gym in the north of England ...this is how much it roughly costs to run.
Rent: £2500pm
Electric: £200pm
Gas: £100pm (average)
Water:£30pm
Insurance: £70pm
Website/sign-up forms: £30pm
PT booking system: £40pm
Internet: £50pm
This is before things like new equipment, equipment servicing, toilet rolls, cleaning supplies ect
It's well over £3000 per month before iv started taking a wage and paid tax ect. This is obviously very modest compared to some businesses but it is all relative of course.
Sometimes I do wish I embraced the 9-5 life 😂.
Aaron Forde retweeted
💚 Please Share 💚
We’re raising funds for Clark following the heartbreaking loss of his dad, Jack Skinner, aged just 35.
A much-loved member of the Sutton United family, Jack is missed by so many. Any donation or share is greatly appreciated.
🔗 gofundme.com/f/jack-skinner-…
Dont really post much about @Found4theFuture on here anymore but thought this was worth sharing!
🎬 We’re proud to share a glimpse into the incredible partnership developed between ourselves and @CockshutHillSch Hill School.. a collaboration built on empowerment, opportunity, and a shared commitment to developing young people! @Summit_LT @laura_ash @BirminghamEdu
Never trust someone fully when it comes to business.. whether that be friends or family because eventually you will get burned
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A Message from the Dunion Family🐝
Sienna is the Niece of our very own Bees Player -
Paul Malone - @PaulMalone4 💛🖤
🔗 | gofund.me/34a0b343d
On 19th November, our little Sienna suddenly became unresponsive and was rushed to Kettering A&E. After scans, she was placed in an induced coma and transferred to Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, where she has remained in ICU.
Sienna has been diagnosed with a rare and devastating brain condition called Acute Necrotising Encephalitis (ANE), caused by the flu. This has caused serious brain injury, and she will need specialist neuro-rehabilitation to have any chance of learning to walk, talk, and eat again.
The road ahead is long — we are preparing for months in hospital, splitting our time between Sienna and her big sister Adriana, while trying to give her the best chance at recovery.
We’ve set up a GoFundMe page to help cover the cost of specialist neurological rehab, intensive therapy, intensive rehabilitation, equipment, travel, and accommodation. Every donation, no matter how small, will make a huge difference.
🙏 Please consider donating or sharing this page to help our little girl get the care she desperately needs:
🔗 | gofund.me/34a0b343d
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support, kindness, and generosity. 💖
Aaron Forde retweeted
this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾
The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup.
But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want.
Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams.
But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾
Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy.
You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years.
If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller.
You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7.
You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success.
A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship.
You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever).
You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible.
You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison.
And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder.
More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you.
In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional.
I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness.
Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾
✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why
✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games
✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses
✅ Designing within them, not against them
Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story.
Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are!
This does the beg the question, why do I do it?
If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know.
It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues.
Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me.
This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled.
To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture.
And to me, their life would probably feel like torture.
And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists.
Please know what you are not!
Aaron Forde retweeted
The richest man in China, Jack Ma, said, If you put the bananas and money in front of the monkeys, the monkeys will choose bananas, because the monkeys don't know that money can buy a lot of bananas.
In fact, if you offer work and business to people, they will choose to work, because most people don't know that a business can make more money than a salary. One of the reasons the poor are poor is because the poor are not trained to recognize the entrepreneurial opportunity.
They spend a lot of time in school and what they learn in school is to work for a salary instead of working for themselves.
Profit is better than wages because wages can support you, but profits can make you a fortune.
If you don't learn to recognize opportunities, you will continue to choose the safe path rather than the profitable one.
This lad can play given the right platform 🙌🏼
Really surreal moment this was as it only seemed like a year or 2 ago I was teaching this young man p.e in primary school and now he is near the end of his school journey and ready to for the next step!
A Full Circle Moment 🙌
Last Week we had the privalige of representing Foundations4TheFuture at Edmund Campion School’s Year 11 mock interview day as part of a wider initiative to get year 11 students prepared for life after school.
As the morning come to an end we had one more interview to deliver and to our suprise this young man come and sat in front of us... someone our Managing Director Aaron had worked with nearly 7 years ago during his primary school journey.
It was a powerful reminder of how far a bit of early support and encouragement can go. Seeing his growth, confidence and maturity was genuinely inspiring and a testament to the brilliant work being done by the staff at Edmund Campion.
Moments like this highlight the true impact of collaboration between schools and organisations committed to helping young people prepare for their futures. 🌱
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Tel Aviv cancels derby match after riots involving Maccabi football hooligans.
But we have to accept Maccabi football hooligans who chant 'Death to Arabs!' coming to ethnically mixed Birmingham - and if we don't, we are hateful extremists!
BREAKING: Tel Aviv derby football match cancelled after riots broke out in and around the stadium
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