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Sarah is an experienced senior manager, with over 20 years experience in strategic management, service delivery and large scale projects. Her experience covers a wide range of services in large public agencies, with a particular focus on regeneration, cultural projects and environmental services.

Sarah has worked in a variety of roles, from interim director to managing inspections, acting as trusted client and resolving conflicts.

She has managed large scale resources of all kinds, with accountability for operations, maintenance, costs and performance. Her responsibilities have encompassed turnover in excess of £100m, assets over £200m, programmes over £500m and over 1000 staff. Achievements include innovative strategic development, radical improvements in performance, introduction of effective management, major project delivery, and rescuing failing services and functions from sports centres and recycling to national campaigns.

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An invitation to join the e-money revolution

The Brixton Pound's e-currency launched last year, with the technology coming to Bristol in May - where next?

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Politicians may be incapable of modernizing our dinosaur-banks, but in the world of electronic exchange things are more exciting. In particular, the ubiquity of mobile phones and the internet creates enormous opportunities for ‘dis-intermediation’ – or the removal of banks as the middle-men enabling payment and settlement.
The scramble to avoid a Greek default

The IMF, EU and ECB must have a deal in place by 20 March to avoid the risk of contagion in the Eurozone.

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Crunch time is rapidly approaching for Greece, as its ruling coalition fail to reach agreement on austerity cuts. In return, its private creditors have ‘volunteered’ – with the barest minimum of Troika arm-twisting – to reductions in Greek debt of around 70 per cent. If nothing is signed up to by 20 March, when €14.5bn has to be rolled over, Greece will face little choice but to default.
Life before death

What can we learn from the regrets of the dying?

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First thing on a Monday morning - surely the best time to contemplate life and death? In the Guardian last week there was an article about an Australian nurse who cared for people in their last 12 weeks of life and what she learnt about their regrets. Whilst I can’t vouch for the scientific validity of the study it is certainly true that we will all die, and that many of us will have a chance to reflect on our lives as we approach death. Did we do the things we would have liked to?

SARAH TANBURN ASSOCIATES

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