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Lockdown in the Tower Block
Tina Cribbin is a community activist based in Hulme Manchester and is part of community group On top of the world Hulme. Tina is also involved in the Seanchai Cafe, a community cafe based in South Manchester. In this guest blog Tina shares what it’s like to be a Tower Block resident in Lockdown and how they’re bringing joy to their residents and tackling isolation.
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Learning from Covid-19 to improve services so the next person gets the help they need
Phil works with Expert Citizens, he is a part of multiple peer research teams and is an insight evaluator. Expert Citizens is a community interest company led by an independent group of people who have all experienced multiple needs – combinations of mental ill health, homelessness, addiction and offending behaviour. They give their ideas to services like the local authority, police and homelessness services of Stoke-on-Trent, and nationally, to help guide and shape them to improve the care of multiple needs citizens. In this guest blog Phil shares how Covid19 has impacted him and his hopes for how it could impact services for the better beyond the pandemic.
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Solutions to homelessness aren’t a temporary thing – it’s time to shake up the system
Nikki Aitchison is the Head of Employment Development Projects, at Aspire – an award winning Charity and Social Enterprise. Aspire works with people experiencing significant disadvantage in their lives such as homelessness, providing personalised support to build on their strengths to overcome barriers. Over half of the team have lived experience of overcoming adversity, and Aspire works to innovate, and get upstream to prevent problems spiralling in the first place. In this guest blog Nikki shares a spoken word piece, and writes about how we need to use this pandemic to shake up the system and create change in the homelessness sector.
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Amanda Hailes ‘Covid19: Using the lessons I learned in Recovery’
Amanda Hailes is a women’s rights campaigner, volunteer outreach worker and peer researcher for organisations including AVA and Agenda. She is passionate about highlighting multiple disadvantage and championing those with lived experience. In this guest blog she shares how the lessons she learnt whilst in recovery are helping her through coronavirus lockdown.
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Md Mominul Hamid: Am I a Number or a Human Being?
Md Mominul Hamid is a human rights ambassador and community advocate who is campaigning for the rights of asylum seekers to access higher education. He is an asylum seeker himself, and in this guest blog he shares how he has been recently dedicating his time to support other asylum seekers and vulnerable people by setting up his own food bank, as well as handing out food parcels around his community on his bike.
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Unchained: The Making of My BBC Radio 4 Documentary
Brenda Birungi aka Lady Unchained is a Poet and Founder of Unchained Poetry, a platform for artists with experience of the criminal justice system and is a member of a Spokesperson Network being piloted by sounddelivery. In this guest blog she shares her journey from prison to presenting her first documentary for BBC Radio 4.
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Homelessness, Mental Health, Covid19 and Me
Hannah Green is a freelance writer and activist. She writes about her lived experience of homelessness and PTSD and these experiences drive her passion to change things for other young people. Hannah is a volunteer and trustee at Scarborough Survivors and also volunteers with the Wave Project. In this guest blog she shares how Covid-19 has impacted her.
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Locked down or Locked out? How the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities are coping with Covid-19
Helen Jones is the CEO of Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange which is a West Yorkshire based membership organisation for Gypsy and Traveller people. Leeds GATE offers support and development activities, as well as raising awareness of the needs and assets of the communities. In this guest blog Helen shares the largely unheard impact that Covid-19 is having for the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities.
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How can we amplify the unheard voices of the Coronavirus Pandemic?
At sounddelivery it’s our mission to champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. The Coronavirus Pandemic has showed how important people on the frontline are, the people who support our communities, and support the most vulnerable. The outbreak of the coronavirus and the uncertainty that it is bringing with it means we need to listen. We want to give a platform to the voices that may go unheard during this time, those with firsthand experience of the big social issues facing the UK.
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Capturing Stories from the Frontline: Commissioning an Audio Diary
We know that our networks are thinking about how they capture and tell their stories from the frontline as the global community tackles the coronavirus pandemic. Audio Diaries are a great way of showing what is going on in your communities. This is a guide to commissioning an audio diary using a mobile phone. An […]
