We recently announced the winners of the Ooffoo Laureate 2010 Competition, and we were so entranced by the letters that the judges selected to take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, that we wanted to find out more about the authors. We want to know what inspires them, what their passions are and what drives them, More…
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Interview with Nick Kettles
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Interview with Susan Bennett – Ooffoo Laureate 2010
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010We recently announced the winners of the Ooffoo Laureate 2010 Competition, and we were so entranced by the letters that the judges selected to take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, that we wanted to find out more about the authors. We want to know what inspires them, what their passions are and what drives them, More…
Interview with Rebecca Beesley
Thursday, April 1st, 2010We recently announced the winners of the Ooffoo Laureate 2010 Competition, and we were so entranced by the letters that the judges selected to take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, that we wanted to find out more about the authors. We want to know what inspires them, what their passions are and what drives them, More…
Ooffoo Laureate 2010: The Results
Friday, March 19th, 2010In August 2009 we launched a competition and began a search for a writer deserving of the title of Ooffoo Laureate 2010. We held this competition because we wish to honour, celebrate and reward someone that has a real gift for expression, someone who has an excellent ability to inspire, move, persuade or even humour More…
Global Parent Website – 2010 Laureate Entry
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Global Parent Forum and Website
Dear David Cameron,
Hello. I’m addressing you because you seem to be in touch with parents. Please keep reading…
I’m proposing a website idea to assist global cultural understanding and the idea is unique:
Global Parents Forum
In western societies, we parents speak on forums across borders. UK mums, from council estates and gated high-fliers More…
Ooffoo Laureate Competition Finalists Announced
Friday, March 5th, 2010For a chance to win £1,000 we asked the Ooffoo community to write a letter with inspiration or ideas to help bring change to the world. We received nearly 100 moving, inspiring and heart-felt entries and we wish to express our enormous gratitude to all those who took part in the competition, the standard this More…
Is it good for children?
Monday, January 4th, 2010To Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Dear Ban Ki-moon,
When I was a young woman at university, there was an idea current among radical feminists: the pro-woman line. Very simply, it meant that whenever you considered the value of a law or custom, you asked the question, is it good for women? If it isn’t More…
Make a New Start with the Children
Friday, January 1st, 2010love and truth and virtue
Thursday, December 31st, 2009To President Obama, President of the United States of America,
"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with love and truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
So wrote Jean de la Fontaine, a French poet over 400 years ago. This then, More…
Gaia, the spirit of our earth, addresses Barack Obama, President of the United States of America
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Dear Obama
I am writing to you, the world leader who has perhaps the greatest power to change the story I am about to share with you. You are not just the leader of the country that has the most influence over all others, but you are believed to be an honest, good-hearted man. As the More…
