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The Cure Parkinsons Trust - charity supported by the Ten Percent Foundation 2016-2017 Our criteria and policies for donating to charities can be found here – https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/charitable-trust/ This year we have written a piece about each charity we have considered and explained why and what we are funding. We have also included any information the charity have sent us including updates from last year on our ongoing donations. We discovered the existence of The Cure Parkinson’s Trust whilst researching alternatives to Parkinsons UK. The cure or treatment of Parkinson's is of particular interest to us as we have lost a family member (and former trustee) to the disease. In 2016 we wrote an article about high salary paying charities and were surprised to discover that Parkinsons UK were on the list (we have donated to them in the past). 10 staff at the charity were earning between £60,000 and £130,000 in 2015. Total amount paid to the se...

CV Blooper of the Month- spotted on a legal CV sent to Ten Percent Legal Recruitment in March 2017. Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

We have received notification that Jonathan Fagan's "Legal Recruitment" Blog is in the top HR and Recruitment Bloggers 2017 List. Always nice to find out someone has read some of our ramblings (they have been likened to those of a madman in the past!). You can view our blog on the site, together with lots of other interesting blogger websites at: http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/articles/2017-03/recruitment-hr-bloggers-2017.htm   Agency Central have very kindly reviewed the site as well with the following entry:  Jonathan Fagan  - Legal Recruitment http://legalrecruitment.blogspot.co.uk/ Who is the author? Jonathan is the MD of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment - a UK-based consultancy serving solicitors and recruiting for permanent and temporary roles within the legal sector. The company famously donates 10% of its profits to charity. Jonathan has also taught legal CV writing and interview practices to postgraduate law students at Huddersfield University. ...

The Kilimatinde Trust - charity supported by the Ten Percent Foundation 2016-2020 We thought it might be of interest to outline where the Ten Percent Foundation spends some of its money. The first charity is the Kilimatinde Trust. This is a UK charity linked to a specific area of Tanzania. One of our trustees knows one of the teachers at the school we support; St John’s Seminary in Tanzania. The new primary school at St Johns Seminary, Tanzania The school is based in the Singida region of Tanzania, which is located in a semi-arid zone in central Tanzania with an altitude ranging from 900m-1,500m above sea level. The whole region has 346 villages, an area of 49,341 square km and a population of around 955,000. The majority of people in the area work in agriculture and livestock rearing as their main economic activity and means of livelihood. Bullrush Millet and sorghum are the main staple crops, though maize is grown in many areas despite low yields, d...

 25% of Students now graduate with a 1st class degree The Times newspaper reported this week that 25% of all undergraduates finish up with a 1st class degree at the end of their time at University. This is compared with 17% in 2012 and (probably) considerably less than this as you go back over time. Does this mean that Lower numbers of students go out on the lash midweek and get completely wasted? More students have increased their intelligence levels and therefore able to achieve higher grades? The drugs have got better at most UK universities? Or does it mean that Universities have worked out a way to increase their funding and/or market their courses and demonstrate success to prospective students? Hmm. I suspect the latter, although anecdotal evidence does suggest that considerably less students now spend their 3 years in the student union bar. Anecdotal Evidence We see increasing numbers of 1st class degree students getting nowhere with their careers where...

Charities Nominated for Donations 2017 So far this year we have had the following charities nominated for donations by candidates and clients. To see our policy on donations please visit: https://www.ten-percent.co.uk/charitable-trust/ Bloodwise Greenwich Housing Rights Howard League The Parent House Daisey Garland Charity PVNH Support Helping Older People (New Forest) We expect to continue our support of LawCare, Ace of Clubs, Reprieve and Unlock. If anyone else wants to nominate a charity for a donation, please let me know. Our main policy is that we will not donate to charities who pay any staff more than £75k per annum. Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

A Psychic's 2016 New Year Predictions Revisited Every year we carry an article in our January Newsletter about predictions for the previous year by an "expert" online psychic, Craig Hamilton-Parker (from www.psychics.co.uk). Mr Hamilton-Parker charges £1.50 per minute for his services via telephone consultations. We have also included Mr Hamilton-Parker's 2017 predictions below to see how he does when we revisit in 2018. In 2014 Mr Hamilton-Parker scored 1 out of 16 but managed to get 5 out of 16 in 2015. Online Psychic Craig Hamilton-Parker's Predictions and Results for 2016 1. Massive earthquake in Himalayas causes dam to burst (wrong). 2. Japanese island sinks beneath the sea (wrong). 3. Unprecedented rainfall disrupts some of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (wrong, although there was a bright green swimming pool). 4. A comet/asteroid is missed by most astronomical observatories and comes close to Earth (wrong). 5. EU referendum...