IRC Global Executive Search Partners continues expansion in 2012

 India-based firm joins globally connected and locally committed alliance IRC Global Executive Search Partners (IRC), a professional alliance of executive search firms and a market leader in the global executive search industry, welcomes Mumbai-based Fructus Consultants as its first new member firm of 2012. “We’re delighted to start 2012 by welcoming Fructus Consultants to our expanding...

Recruiting key executives: the expanding NGO sector

CEOs must navigate diverse conflicts and challenges to successfully lead an NGO through the financially challenged 2010s Malcolm Duncan – IRC Australia, and Board member of IRC Global Executive Search Partners Western democracies are increasingly outsourcing Human Services (HS) to Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), Not-For-Profits (NFPs), and Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs). Increasingly,...

Newsletter: Red Squirrels Trust Wales

Atlantic Dune Woodland ‘2180’ Forested coastal dunes, known as ‘Atlantic Dune Woodland’ (ADW), are EU-protected coastal habitat that do not exist in the UK. However, a current UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) has a target to create five areas of these forested coastal dunes. In 2004, those who opposed CCW’s ‘vision’ for Newborough (a plan to fell large areas of the forest),...

Mouth-watering Masterchef event at Anglesey restaurant

Masterchef  winner Claire Lara presents a unique dinner menu at the Marram Grass restaurant Anglesey-reared meat, lobster and mackerel caught in the cold Irish sea, Welsh goats’ cheese, home-baked bread and garden-grown herbs are just a few of the taste-bud tempting components on an unique, creative menu designed by Masterchef winner Claire Lara for a September dinner special event at the...

Breeding for the Ideal Amenity Grass

Marker-assisted breeding and genotype mapping may eliminate long-term field trials, bringing improved grass varieties to market – and to amenity turfs – in record time. New processes at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS*) means plants can be tested as seedlings, reducing the time from initial development to completing STRI trials ­– which can take up to...