How we work
EQ does not operate a payroll and our overheads are low.
The dolphin is a banner that allows a consortium of childcare professionals to dedicate time and effort to a shared mission. Those who are not founding members were invited to join and this has led to the creation of a highly cohesive, productive and happy team.
Past sponsors include the British Foreign Office and the EC Youth and Culture programme. However, as a matter of policy, we have attempted to maximize our financial independence from institutional donors and to limit the extent to which we operate on a project-to-project basis to avoid constantly looking at the surrounding world through the distorting prism of narrow project criteria.
This has given us certain advantages:
- Our growth has been closely managed and our mission has never been compromised
- Our engagement with regional childcare issues and the surrounding community has been broad ranged and multifaceted
- We have remained highly accessible – at liberty to provide technical support to other organizations and free to respond to overtures
- Time and resources have been almost exclusively dedicated to developing a solid, effective, educational repertoire