The mob, the scapegoat and refocus on the UK
The beginning During the first year of furloughed life in the UK (2020), people needed ways to vent out their frustrations. When we launched Furloughed Life on 7th April 2020 after the idea came to my head on 1st April 2020, several people in Manchester including who I considered as friends took to social media […]
Our numbers are down and I am gutted about it
Irrespective of the good work our team has done, we have performed very poorly over the last several months. Let’s take a look at reality vs spin. Volunteer Acquisition We achieved our 1st-year target of adding 1,000 volunteers with 24 hours to spare. We achieved our 2nd-year target of adding 10,000 Volunteers 7 days after […]
4,000 Volunteers to build the next wave of tech startups
After Mithun spoke to Homero Gheorghe on Linkedin, he signed up to gain further Experience and Skills by volunteering through SkilledUp Life. In the process, he became our 4,000th Volunteer. Thank you. I want to thank everyone who has supported us since we went live on 1st August 2020 and take a moment to reflect […]
£411.40 Donation to NHS Charities
Last week, I donated £411.40 to NHS Charities. This was all the proceeds we received after payment fees for operating predecessor of SkilledUp Life from April to July 2020. I would like to thank Chris McCarthy Ram Raghavan Thomas Porteus Yogeeta Chirekani Bethan Weston Keith Merriman Michael Donaldson Nicolas Clarke for coming onboard helping me […]
Day 1 of a long road ahead
Today is Day 1 of SkilledUp Life. We are live and kicking without any fanfare. As explained in our inaugural blog post, the concept is now exactly 4 months old. What we achieved during this time was covered in the above blog post, so I will not take time to repeat the same here. On […]
SkilledUp Life: How this all started
The journey of SkilledUp Life started on 1st of April when a conversation between Manoj Ranaweera (me) of Techcelerate and Anthony Chisnall of Driver Net gave me an idea. I invited a number of Techcelerate Tech Founders and Partners to a virtual meeting on 2nd to discuss the concept which led to launching Furloughed Life […]