Factors of Success – A Review of ACCESS 38 Years On

ACCESS turns 38 in 2024; August 11 to be specific. It is exciting to reflect on the fact that a volunteer-based, and run, organisation has managed to reach this age of maturity. Is it the formula, the people or the times, one wonders? Or is...

Oerol – a festival in the heart of nature

One of Europe’s foremost performing arts festivals, Oerol is as unique as its UNESCO World Heritage Site location. For ten days every summer, the festival transforms the island of Terschelling into an alternate world that pushes visitors’ senses into overdrive.  Oerol–meaning everywhere in the Terschellinger...

GMW Lawyers: The employer's duty of care

GMW Lawyers: Employers have a duty of care to employees and an obligation to protect their health and safety

Rebuilding My Life in the Netherlands

I arrived in the Netherlands from London for the first time in 1992, newly married and six weeks pregnant, to join my husband after he accepted an international role with Shell. Before relocating I had held a management position in a respected teaching hospital as...

Supporting Adolescent Mental Health and Wellness at NAISR

A growing body of research is placing mental health and well-being at the centre of an integrated approach to adolescent health. At the Nord Anglia International School Rotterdam (NAISR) a critical question has arisen: How do we ensure mental health and well-being forms a key...