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Introducing Phase Forward
James Gore | 19th March 2026
I'm incredibly excited to be writing this blog. Anyone who knows me knows that I love sports and I'm passionate about the benefits of physical activity - having fun, bringing people together, looking after our health and building resilience. At Phase, we're blessed to have people support us in a variety of ways: fundraising, volunteering, one-off d
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Some thoughts on resolutions
James Gore | 9th January 2026
This blog is going to be about New Year’s resolutions, of course. It’s the first Phase blog of 2026. Could it really have been about anything else? I hope to start by thinking about how we might reframe New Year's resolutions and end with some reflections on undergoing change. I believe most New Year’s resolutions have a flawed premise in
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How to slow down time
James Gore | 31st October 2025
It’s November. Another year’s nearly over. How does each one somehow go quicker than the last? The clocks went back an hour last weekend. I sometimes wish they would wind back further to give me a chance to figure out where all the time went. We may not be able to control the clock ticking and pages turning on our calendars. However, we h
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Goals
James Gore | 29th August 2023
With the new school year right around the corner, I thought it would be cool to write about goals. September brings a mix of emotions for a variety of reasons: new school, new level of pressure, new teachers, (or vice versa) new students, the list goes on. Novelty means change and change means uncertainty, or, excitement. Either way, if we’re at th
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The tricky art of elephant eating
Elizabeth Feltoe | 1st February 2020
Did you notice this new year that lots of people were talking about their ‘goals’ rather than their ‘new year’s resolutions’? It might just be the circle of friends I have or the people that I see on Instagram, but it felt like a shift to me. I think it’s good – a new year’s resolution is something that could sound like (not always) “I will stop do
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Zero Waste
Helen Bainbridge | 31st August 2018
So, how did your zero waste challenge go? Did you learn anything, surprise yourself? Or did you forget entirely that we'd ever challenged you to go zero waste? I kind of cheated on this one - I've been trying to live with less waste for a while now. The environment is important to me, I think we have a responsibility to be good stewards of God's c
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MAD ;)
Kieran Murphy | 10th February 2017
Something that we are working on is how we can help young people go MAD!! I should probably explain, MAD stands for Make A Difference and it is a project where young people will be able to apply for small amount of seed funding to run their own project or activity to raise money for Phase and a percentage of what they make will be given to another
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Goals and rhythms
Helen Bainbridge | 3rd February 2017
Where do you want to be in ten years’ time – or five, or even one? What do you want to have achieved by then? Is there any area of your life where you are desperate to see change - where you would be disappointed to look back in ten years and see that things have changed little if at all? This month, I have been tasked with talking about goals – s
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