Vie Portland's blog

I founded VieNess Discover You Love You CIC in June 2019. I was excited! I had plans! I knew I would spend several months raising awareness of the Community Interest Company (and explaining what one of those is!) and raising money to enable the workshops to teach children, young people, and vulnerable women to happen. There were lots of meetings, lots of planning, and several fundraising events. Early in 2020, there were more meetings and bookings were starting to come in! It

I have started to notice a worrying trend. Because of the work I do with children and young people, I am in a lot of parenting groups on social media. And, in the build up to Christmas, lots of parents, because they are loving, caring, parents who want the best for their child, are asking for recommendations on things to buy their children. And several of the requests have been, “Which fitness tracker watch shall I get for my child?” Some of the requests have been for childre