We believe in a confident social sector able to develop and amplify lived experience stories and expertise to address social inequalities.
We want to see people in positions to use their lived experience of social injustice so they can influence change on that issue.
We work towards greater representation and diversity of the voices we hear in the media and beyond.
Find out more about what we do and who we are.
Our programme creates a network of confident spokespeople, who have direct experience of social injustices. Developed collaboratively with a network of leaders with lived experience, it aims to diversify the voices we hear in the media and in rooms with policymakers and other decision makers. Through training, mentoring, peer support and speaking opportunities, we tackle the barriers that prevent these experts from engaging with the people and platforms that have the power to influence national conversations. Meet the network.
"Being the Story is an amazing platform for those who are working for social change. Not only did it give us a platform, the team behind it pushed our story into the mainstream media where it has been given a lot of attention, enabling us to gain funding to support the countless young people in our communities faced with issues of knife crime."
Simeon Moore, DatsTV
I applied to Sounddelivery Media’s Spokesperson Network because I wanted to learn how to engage with the media and make our work more visible. Mothers Uncovered supports every mother, not just a demographic of mothers, and sometimes that can make it harder to get attention. I hoped the Spokesperson Network could help me find the right routes to get our message across.
During the period that I was an asylum seeker, I realised how powerful the media was in shaping how people like me were seen. The stories told about refugees often shape how the public reacts, how policies are made, and even how welcome we feel in our communities. Dr Allan Njanji, Refugee Advocate and leader on our Spokesperson Programme reflects.
When a young Sikh woman was raped in Oldbury, her assailants told her: “You don’t belong in this country, get out.” It was an act of sexual violence, but it was also an act of racial violence. Despite the brutality of the crime and the hateful words that accompanied it, the silence is deafening. Hameeda Khan, CEO of People Empowering People and leader on our Spokesperson Programme reflects.
We are celebrating the successful media placement of Hameeda, who has become a regular columnist at Asian Image. Sounddelivery Media (SDM) supported Hameeda and served as the catalyst for securing this column. Read the piece here.
BBC Radio 5 Live aired a three-part series highlighting the inspiring work of Stephen Arnott and Beats Bus Records. Listen here.
Marissa Begonia spoke at high-level Roundtable on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Co-hosted by UN Human Rights and The Freedom Fund.
