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One of the things we talk about in leadership and leadership teaching within the academy and in the practice is VUCA.

VUCA stands for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and this is the world that we live in on a day-to-day basis.

The world is changing rapidly, and the pace of change is even more rapid than the change itself, and we must be prepared to adapt and move on when change comes.

And so, in The Campbell Clinic, partly that is represented by what has happened to our charity and social legacy project work over the last 12 months.

For many years, (I lost count of) we ran a charity ball as part of our work, and we subsidised it as a clinic and then made much more money than we subsidised it to be really effective.

It was compulsory fancy dress (most of the time), and it rotated between Christmas and winter and Halloween and all sorts.

As a family, we have a collection of some of the most extraordinary pictures of our friends, and us dressed up in daft costumes at those balls.

What became apparent, though, was that the ball ran out.

It's not the Met Gala dinner, and it's not the Oscars, and so people get fatigued or distracted, and they go to something else, and the product life cycle changes, and so this year we changed the offering that we have in terms of charity, and we spread it around different members of the team to do different things, and the list is almost endless of the things that are carrying on your partner.

One of the big things that happens this Saturday, which is the 18th of July. We're going to start to try to run an annual charity football tournament (we have a lot of football interest in the clinic and outside the clinic), and so this week at Gresham Sports Park in Nottingham at 10 o'clock, running till about 3:00 p.m, 10 teams will contest the inaugural 5-a-side football tournament for The Campbell Clinic charity project.

Attached to this blog is a flyer, and the timings and the details are there.

We're raising money on entry from each team, but also sponsorship for each player and other donations, and therefore, if you would like to help support us in aid of the Canmore Trust (one of our chosen charities, and the most extraordinary suicide pre and postvention charity set up by my friend John Gibson), you can hit the link here and it's easy to donate.

What we would also love, though, is anyone who can come and join us, to support, cheer, have fun and laugh; there are tonnes of things to see and do, and even some entertainment for the kids.

It'll never work the first time, but it might work the next time; but if it's gonna work the next time, we have to have a first time, and the first time is on Saturday.

Hopefully see you then.

Blog Post Number - 4599