Working with up to 20 women from the charity's Women Asylum Seekers TogetherLondon network, they offered workshops divided into two halves: the first providing employability support, and the second teaching them the practical and creative skills of flower arranging.
Patrick Holland is the MD of Boundless, the production house that makes AHTSYL (and whose skill at arranging raw material into a compelling narrative is amply demonstrated on The Apprentice, where helicopter shots of a different type are prevalent).
(Hocketing is the mirror ball of arranging).
Decide the platform of arranging a contest.
"I know the dangers of arranged marriages".
This is so because of arranged marriages.
Running a jazz big band in 2010 involves skill in composing, arranging, conducting and scheduling; it also involves nerve, because a big band these days is naturally a kind of statement, a platform for adventuresome writing or maintaining a tradition.
She is a product of Institut Villa Pierrefeu, Switzerland's last traditional finishing school, where a six-week course covering skills including flower arranging, hostessing and table-setting costs around $20,000.
This applies, of course, across the eurozone: as Timothy Garton-Ash pointed out in this paper a couple of weeks ago, Greece, early in the last decade, used the dark skills of Goldman Sachs to arrange a currency swap deal that concealed the scale of their debt.
But it's hard to find a home to park such kids of different ages, especially if you've had kids late so that two hours is just about the elderly grandparents' limit - you need the synchronising skills of Nasa to arrange it.
She took note of George's unusual drawing skills and arranged for him to have art and music lessons outside school.
