Back Page: My Week - Face the future with positive activities

I'm inspired as always by Jeremy Glover, chief executive of Bolton Girls and Lads Club, who's created an amazing facility for young people in his local area. My Place is to be welcomed, but it must avoid the creation of white elephants that young people don't use and ensure that the new facilities are financially sustainable.

Tuesday: Meet with Sir Jim Rose, who's leading the government's review of the primary curriculum. We're trying to persuade him that citizenship and enterprise education should be more prominent in primary schools. He has a difficult job on his hands to balance the competing demands on schools' time. Sir Jim is very engaging, but I suspect middle-class parents will prevent the more radical reform of schooling that we advocate.

Wednesday: To Canary Wharf for the launch of Bank of America's Neighbourhood Excellence Initiative. The bank has taken an exceptionally enlightened approach to funding voluntary sector organizations in that it bases investment decisions on track record and allows charities to spend the money as they see fit. If statutory funders could take a few more risks and adopt this type of approach we could see some exciting results.

Thursday: We host a seminar on volunteering in formal education settings with our partners from the Choose Action Alliance. We've gathered some friends from the sector along with officials from three government departments to debate the issues. This may be the first time I have ever seen three departments in the same place, at the same time, talking about the same thing. It's a really positive discussion and the sort of exchange that should happen more often.

Friday: I'm in the office to welcome a group of new staff to Changemakers. We're currently expanding from 12 to 30 people, which is both scary and exciting. It's great to have an influx of new talent and I'm looking forward to the fresh ideas and challenges this will bring.

Later, I watch a local production of Return to the Forbidden Planet in which Anna Scarlett, my 13-month-old daughter, makes her acting debut. We take the government's positive activities agenda very seriously in the Nichols household.

- Adam Nichols is chief executive of the charity Changemakers.