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Chantal Hughes, The Hampton Trust: ‘What I learnt working with a Production Company on Ian Wright: Home Truths’
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 7, 2021

Chantal Hughes is the Chief Executive of Hampton Trust who deliver frontline services tackling root causes of domestic abuse with specialist early intervention and rehabilitative programmes for adult offenders and young people in a range of settings. In this guest blog she shares her experience of working with a production company to contribute to the documentary Ian Wright:Home Truths, giving her advice to other charities.

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Be part of a movement to put lived experience at the heart of media conversations
By Jude Habib
Posted on April 1, 2021

We’re proud to announce that applications are now open to recruit a new cohort of leaders to take part in sounddelivery’s Spokesperson Network Programme and I’d love you to share it with your networks or if you see yourself in the applicant profile – apply!

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Beckie Clark: Why we need more foster carers – my story
By sounddelivery
Posted on May 17, 2022

It is Fostering Fortnight, The Fostering Network’s annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and show how foster care transforms lives. Fostering is something close to the heart of Beckie Clark, growing up in foster care from six months old. In this blog she shares her story, and why we need more foster carers.

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Mimi Jalmasco ‘A DECADE WITHOUT RIGHTS: UK Migrant Domestic Workers campaign for change’
By sounddelivery
Posted on April 6, 2022

It has been 10 years since the Overseas Domestic Workers visa was changed. Migrant domestic workers have endured 10 years being trapped working for abusive employers following changes in 2012. Workers and their supporters have lobbied and campaigned for changes to the ODW visa so that workers have certain rights that would keep them safe at work and be able to challenge abuse when it arises. Here Mimi shares her experience and why she’s speaking out.

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What being neurodivergent in a leadership role is like for me, and the tools that help me in the workplace
By sounddelivery
Posted on March 25, 2022

This week marks Neurodiversity Celebration Week which encourages a shift in thinking from the perceived weaknesses and deficits of being neurodivergent, toward the many strengths and positivity that neurodiversity brings. In this guest blog Anne-Marie Douglas, Founder of Peer Power UK blogs on her ADHD diagnosis and what being a neurodivergent charity leader is like.

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Comments: No comments just yet Tags: ADHD, charity, Leadership, Neurodiversity
Be part of a movement to put lived experience at the heart of media conversations
By Jude Habib
Posted on March 15, 2022

We’re proud to announce that applications are now open to recruit a new cohort of leaders to take part in sounddelivery’s Spokesperson Network Programme and I’d love you to share it with your networks or if you see yourself in the applicant profile – apply! “Being involved with the Spokesperson Network is an experience I […]

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It’s time for Urgent Action: Children’s Mental Health is at Crisis Point as 9-year-olds experience suicidal thoughts
By sounddelivery
Posted on February 4, 2022

Beth Thomas is the mentoring scheme co-ordinator and Safeguarding Director at Our Place Support in the West Midlands. She is currently studying an MSC in child and adolescent mental wellbeing. She is part of the sounddelivery spokesperson network and in this guest blog she shares why urgent action is needed for children’s mental health in the UK.

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Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan: The Pandemic’s Impact On Black, Asian And Ethnic Minority Women In Leicester
By sounddelivery
Posted on February 2, 2022

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.

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Comments: No comments just yet Tags: charity, poverty, ukpoverty
Introducing The Voice of Domestic Workers Future Voices Programme
By Helena Hastings
Posted on February 1, 2022

The Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network has become the backbone of our charity’s work and supporting other charities and organisations to develop their own networks of leaders with direct experience of social injustice is key to our mission. That’s why we are excited to announce a collaboration with The Voices of Domestic Workers to develop their […]

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Debs Teale ‘Prescribing Creativity for Mental Health works – I am the proof’
By sounddelivery
Posted on January 24, 2022

Debs Teale is an advocate of creativity in health following her own remarkable journey. She advocates creativity as an additional service to improve wellbeing and offering hope and aspiration. In this guest piece she blogs on why prescribing creative activities should be a first point of call.

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Comments: No comments just yet Tags: mental health, social prescribing
Chloe Juliette: Why you should care about care
By sounddelivery
Posted on October 25, 2021

Chloe Juliette started out in community arts alongside government co-production projects focused on developing social care policy. She is now a qualitative research and engagement practitioner, enabling the public and service users to feed into policy decisions. She is a passionate and active member of the care experienced community, having recently facilitated the CEP young people’s network and is a member of sounddelivery media’s Spokesperson Network. In this guest piece she blogs on why you should care about care.

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Comments: 1 Comment Tags: care experienced, care leaver, Care system
Jasmine Moreton ‘Disfluency: neither seen nor heard? #NoDiversityWithoutDisfluency’
By sounddelivery
Posted on October 22, 2021

Jazz Moreton is an interdisciplinary artist who has multiple disabilities as a result of surviving a stroke as a teenager, and a passion for activism and equality. She strives to use her enthusiasm for the Arts to create work that has the power to ignite action and discourse around the many inequalities that people with disabilities endure on a daily basis. This International Stammering Awareness Day #ISAD2021 she blogs on why there is #NoDiversityWithoutDisfluency in the voices we hear in the media.

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