As the UK grapples to deal with COVID-19 we have become more reliant than ever on the frontline workers that hold up our services and support our communities. We hosted a Digital ThinkIn in partnership with Tortoise Media, Tortoise ‘ThinkIns’ bring different people together to debate the latest thing in the news. This ThinkIn was all about […]
The word is Listening. At the start of the year I was invited to share on twitter what my word for 2020 would be. The word I chose was listening. And that single word over any other word I could have chosen feels more important than ever. Listening has always been core to my work […]
Final tickets remain for sounddelivery’s flagship charity conference, Social Media Exchange. The event is returning for its eighth year in Newcastle on the 5th of March. With a fantastic panel of inspiring speakers, this conference is the perfect opportunity to kick off 2020 with a creative boost – gaining the skills, confidence and tools to […]
In this guest blog Tracey Ford, Founder of the JAGS Foundation asks have we become desensitised to the murders of our children and young people. She discusses what needs to be done to fill the gaps of unprecedented needs for trauma affected children up and down the country. Tracey is part of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network.
Earlier this year we launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a network of media confident spokespeople with real experience of pressing social issues facing UK society today. The aim of the programme is to improve representation and the diversity of voices in the media (and beyond) and to give our network of speakers a platform. […]
In this guest blog rapper and foster care leaver Ric Flo shares his thoughts on Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s 2019 film Farming and his own experiences of growing up in Foster Care in a predominantly white community. Ric is part of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network Pilot Programme.
Steve Arnott is the Founder of Hull Beats Bus, protagonist of Sean McAllister’s documentary A Northern Soul and member of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network. In this guest blog written during our network workshop, he shares how his life changed following a near-death experience.
Opportunities to work alongside production companies, as well as joining the existing conversation around relevant storylines in soap operas and TV and Radio programmes, films and documentaries, enable charities to increase awareness for their cause. Charities can piggyback with their content and messages. But we’ve seen some missed opportunities and heard from our network that […]
Following the success of her debut children’s book The Boy at the Back of the Class, award-winning author, Being the Story speaker, member of our spokespersons network and dear friend of sounddelivery Onjali Rauf has just released her second book. Like her first book, The Star Outside My Window is told through the eyes of a child, it is a story that explores the subtle faces and endless impacts of domestic violence and ‘celebrates the power of hope and resilience’.
In this guest blog, Burcu Borysik, the policy manager at Revolving Doors Agency shares her experience working with a production company to put a spotlight on the ‘revolving door’ experience of the criminal justice system.
