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One day of extraordinary fun and games - 22nd Nov

Written by Colin Campbell | 14/09/25 16:00

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So, this is how it goes, and we've been doing this for a while now.

On the 22nd of November, we set up a system for you to have your practise/business team Christmas party with us before the madness of the Christmas party rush starts.

You know how that goes, you get to the 2nd week of December, and you're fed up of some sort of s$£t Christmas dinner with a load of people that you'd rather you weren’t out with because you've been out 4 nights in a row.

So, we pulled our Christmas celebration back to the 22nd of November, and we have it as the charity ball, which is the same venue as last year, (which was amazing). And we get the opportunity to raise potentially tens of thousands of pounds for people who are much less well-off and in a much worse position than us.

Dress up in fancy dress, some sort of Christmas style, bring our teams and have a great, great time.

I hope you can make it, I hope you'll think about making it, I hope you'll support it.

Immediately before that, though, we do the learning from failure conference. We've run this conference now 3 or 4 times (I can't quite remember). We've never had anyone come from the learning come to learn from failure conference who is absolutely amazed and delighted that they came.

It centres around black box thinking, (https://amzn.eu/d/dKbKYaR) and all the concepts related to that. It's about having an honest place where we can safely share stuff that hasn't gone well and be inspired to try to be a little bit better.

It's about honesty and integrity and ethics and collaboration and communication and camaraderie and all that stuff.

This year, we'll have Martine, who has an extraordinary story of rising from the ashes of the absolute carnage and personal disaster. Much more information will come out about her. As we come closer to that, but I would not miss that.

On a personal level though, for me, Louis Dunne.

We'll talk about his history and what happened to him. And how he has managed to overcome that and become the person he is.

If you want to just get a sense of what that's about. You should read this blog here.

https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/blog/tim

There are clinical talks as well from Chris Navarro and other clinicians, and then (and I was never going to speak at it again after my rubbish lecture last year). I’m gonna help Lauren Bennett, our HR and Opps director, who was the complaints manager at the major hospital in Nottingham, do a little talk about the philosophy of complaints and how to deal with them called the anatomy of a complaint.

I really hope you'll make it for the whole day.

To find out more and request a ticket, follow this link .

I really look forward to seeing you.

Reply, though, if you get this by email, because I can tell you more about it if you're interested myself.

Happy Christmas.

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