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Theodore Spyrou is the Chief Executive Officer of the Whittington Park Community Association, one of London’s established community hubs built in 1885. Theodore has been chosen as a Euclid Network featured leader for his active membership and support of Euclid Network since its formation. Theodore has, through his networks, encouraged the expansion of Euclid Network across south and eastern Europe. Theodore is an executive mentor at the Cass Business School and tutor at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness. Theodore is one of the youngest third sector leaders in the UK and through ACEVO also chairs the Young Chief Executive Officer’s special interest group.
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Matej Poljansek has been working with Euclid Network on a wide range of projects since September 2007, when whe was due to speak at the Euclid Network workshop in Lisbon. His flight was delayed and he arrived as the workshop finihsed, but he was able to build links that have since led to a range of joint initiatives. These initiatives have benefited from his strong links with the Slovenian and British Governments, and have included a major project proposal for the development of the third sector in Slovenia, and also the successful bid to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), for the Western Balkans. Matej is now that Regional Coordinator for that project, liaising with all project partners.
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Jim Baker, Chief Executive Officer of Age Concern Brighton & Hove, has been chosen as Euclid Network’s fifth featured leader as a result of his immense contribution to older people in Brighton & Hove and the third sector at large. Jim has a wealth of experience in serving communities through both the voluntary and public sectors. He has been a director in local UK government, a councilor, a government advisor, chair of a number of regional voluntary organisations and a journalist through the years. He is a firm believer in building strategic partnerships between the public and voluntary sectors to aid service delivery and social inclusion.
Jim also regularly attends our Euclid Network conferences across Europe and finds the exchange of best practice invaluable. As he says; “When you are the leader of an organisation you understand the cost to others of errors in judgment or a lack of knowledge. That can make you cautious and stop you innovating. Being part of Euclid, a professional and social network, enables me to learn from and be reassured by old and new friends from all over Europe. It gives me confidence that I cannot get from anywhere else.”
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Raymond Aitken, Head of Research and Innovation at the Portuguese Non-profit association AMARA has been chosen as euclid's fourth featured leader because of immense contribution that he has made to the Lisbon workshop, which has been a turning point in making the event a success.
Established in 2003 to help terminally ill people and their families through psychosocial accompaniment by trained volunteers, AMARA, in partnership with renowned biomedical and psychosocial practitioners from Portugal, Spain and Canada, also provides specialist training at post-graduate level, for the humanisation of terminal and long-term care delivered by Portuguese healthcare professionals. Entrepreneurial earnings from training courses, book publication, events and consultancy represent the principal source of AMARA’s operating finance.
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Thomas Kegel, Director of the Akademie für Ehrenamtlichkeit Deutschland (German Academy of Volunteering), has been chosen as euclid's third featured leader for his great efforts in making the recent euclid presentation in euclid a success. Thomas was instrumental in both the preparations and the running of the event, and as a result has been asked by his German peers to coordinate the Berlin euclid group, which was formed as a result of the presentation.
Thomas has been Director of Akademie für Ehrenamtlichkeit since 1999. The Akademie was formed in 1994 and works as the national volunteer academy and federal centre of competency in volunteer- and non-profit management. The Akademie is Volonteurope's representative for the German speaking countries (volonteurope - the 25 years old european network of volunteer agencies). You can find out about the European network www.volonteurope.org.
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Alari Rammo, Head of Communications of the Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (NENO), have been chosen as the second euclid featured leader because of his hard work in bringing euclid to the Baltic region. Alari has provided euclid with its first translation into Estonian and, in publicizing euclid through his network, has provided a new channel to potential euclid members that we could not have created ourselves. This is the type of member-driven development that euclid will benefit from most.
NENO has 84 members in Estonia, including some of the country’s largest umbrella organisations, ranging from local healthcare providers to international NGOs. Alari has been working for NENO since 2004.
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Philippe Calmette, Secretary General of FEGAPEI, have been chosen as our first featured leader because of his immense contribution in creating euclid. FEGAPEI is the French federation of associations looking after mentally disabled people in institutions or in the home. Its members care for around 120,000 disabled children and adults.
Philippe has been instrumental in building a strong relationship between euclid’s founding members in France and the UK. This Franco-British relationship, so colourful throughout history, has been at the core of the creation of euclid and was instrumental in making euclid’s launch a great success.
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