Amp Team Diary March 2019

Each month, the WEAll Amplification team (Amp team) shares what they’ve been working on, and their priorities for the coming month.

Find out more about our team members here 

Ana Gómez

What’s kept you busy in March?

• March is the month I found my perfect place to live and even though it caused me to take a week vacation it’s a WEAll highlight because it added so much wellbeing to my life I need everyone to know ?
• Creating a Hub Guide and the potential of what it’s going to happen in the future with more WEAll hubs being created
• The different new members I have got to meet through different calls have a huge motivation in my day to day work

March highlight:

• My new home!

April priorities:

• April is shaping up to be a really vivid and exciting month and especially the fact that I’ll be meeting in person many of WEAll members in Malaga makes it very especial. Looking forward to our gathering and the Forum’s encounter and work!

Lisa Hough-Stewart 

What’s kept you busy in March?

• I had two wonderful weeks of holiday time, visiting family and exploring new places
• Developing WEAll Citizens
• Lots of updates to our website with great guest blog content, new pages for the Scotland team and research and business clusters, and additions to the resource hub
• A fantastic joint event between Rethinking Economics and WEAll Scotland on economics education reform, including the Scottish Government Chief Economist

March highlight:

• Finding a great solution for the Citizens online platform and working with Isabel and members to plan the Citizens user experience

April priorities:

• Finalising the WEAll Citizens online platform ready to soft launch at NESI
• NESI Global Forum in Malaga – spending time with members and meeting lots of new people, building the wellbeing economy together
• An important away day with WEAll Scotland, and starting to recruit the board

Katherine Trebeck

What’s kept you busy in March?

• Promoting the agenda: talks to economic development officials and a kindness network, a lecture to economics students, being on a panel with Rethinking Economics, and publishing a load of blogs all pushing a Wellbeing Economy
• Working with a people from the WEAll family on a concept note for our narratives work
• Great meetings in London with Jason Hickel from our Research Fellows Network and with Tearfund who are really interested in collaborating

March highlight:

• The energy and partnership in action of WEAll Scotland event with Rethinking Economics

April priorities:

• Much needed away day with the WEAll Scotland team; and more work on funding proposals for Scotland
• Narratives work
• Meeting the Economics Editor at BBC Scotland to brief him about a wellbeing economy
• And seeing loads of the WEAll family at NESI!

Stewart Wallis

What’s kept you busy in March?

• Planning for an exciting trip to the US to meet with funders and members
• Writing a chapter on technology as it relates to the wellbeing economy for a forthcoming book
• Recruiting new WEAll Ambassadors
• Meetings with potential funders

March highlight:

• Getting positive responses from some wonderful new Ambassadors – we’re looking forward to announcing them soon!

April priorities:

• Making the most of my trip to California, where the priority is fundraising for WEAll

Michael Weatherhead

What’s kept you busy in March?

• Hosting pre-NESI webinars with fantastic expert speakers
• Preparing for NESI including site visits and finalisation of the programme
• Supporting WEAll Citizens development including identifying a platform provider

March  highlight:

• Setting up the formal relationship between the new WEAll Trust and our hosts The Equality Trust – not thrilling stuff, but very important

April priorities:

• The final design and planning for NESI
• Delivering NESI Forum successfully, and spending time with WEAll members in Malaga
• Fundraising applications, with a focus on the business cluster proposals