Background
Margie was a policewoman sergeant having worked her way from a cadet stage and left the service in 1968 to start a family. She worked voluntarily with The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme over a period of twenty-four years after gaining her own Gold Award. She ran a business in antique prints and watercolours, but again became interested in people. She founded a charity called The Friendship Trust, a social invention allowing ‘impossible’ young people to show that they were capable of turning their own lives round, when they were encouraged to choose and take up one constructive interest close to their heart. This in the first instance was not related to work in any way. That came at a later stage in the young person’s own good time. It always has been a personal chance for life for each young person.
Margie ran the charity for eleven years. She then felt strongly, to gain the maximum effectiveness for many people, she needed, for her with ease, to step into a new phase of this social invention. Here she lived purposeful relationships with the same focus and relating in entirely natural ways, without the need of artificial ‘safety’ of charitable status, that too easily took away the very root of purity of natural, warm and positive human relationship. Living what she has taught for many years, Margie met with many people who have not understood and sometimes opposed, the deep, integral quality of these relationships, that can only be experienced by those personally involved, rather than by others looking on from outside.
She calls this phase of the social invention, ‘creative inspirations’. It has the same simple focus of giving recognition and good power to a chosen constructive interest or positive quality/skill. In doing so, empowering individuals of all ages and all organisations to turn round 180 degrees from professional attitudes and conventional, usual approaches that have not worked, and build honesty within the heart space of those who come into each of our lives in natural, personal ways, no matter who we are, or who they are.
Painting has always been a love of Margie’s. She has developed an informal “gallery” at her home for people to visit by appointment. Often people go away feeling charged with enthusiasm to go home and pick up their own brushes.
You can contact Margie to find out more.