Steve Arnott, Founder and CEO of Beats Bus Records in Hull, shares how the long lasting impact of stigma against poverty manifests and explains his work with Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s design team ‘Exploring Stigma and Poverty’. Steve is part of the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network.
Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan is the Founder and CEO of the Zinthiya Trust a charity set up in 2009 aimed at supporting women and families in Leicester and Leicestershire to be free from poverty and abuse. Zinthiya is a member of the sounddelivery media Spokesperson Network and in this guest blog she reflects on the Pandemic’s Impact On Black, Asian And Ethnic Minority Women In Leicester.
Over the last few months sounddelivery has been running a series of storytelling workshops in partnership with the charity Little Village, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Little Village was set up in August 2015 by Sophia Parker and provides good quality baby clothes and equipment, donated by local families, to local families that needContinue reading “Meet Our Little Village Storytellers”
This week has been go, go, go at sounddelivery HQ as we got ready for the launch of Being the Story 2017. We’re excited to be inviting 10 new speakers to take the stage and share their powerful stories, but more on that later. Our storytelling highlights this week features powerful storytelling across TV, Radio,Continue reading “Being the Story, Woman’s Hour, Nadia and more in our Storytelling Highlights”
Through our work we get to meet and connect with many incredible individuals, we met Teresa Driver at our flagship training day The Social Media Exchange where she attended through the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In this guest blog Teresa shares her experiences of working to fight poverty at a local, community level at The Wharton Trust in Hartlepool.
Through our work we get to meet and connect with many incredible individuals with powerful stories to tell. In this guest blog Sarah Whitehead shares how it felt to share her experiences of poverty, and how this inspired her to set-up Community Pride CIC which aims to empower people to speak up about and take action on personal, community, national and international issues.
In this blog Helena, digital assistant at sounddelivery shares her thoughts on storytelling around poverty in light of Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. Sounddelivery has worked with those with firsthand experience of poverty to share their stories to challenge media stereotypes and use digital storytelling to take control of the narrative around poverty in the UK today. Continue reading “I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach’s stark reflection of the welfare state”
