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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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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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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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How Social Prescribing gave me back my life
By sounddelivery
Posted on October 8, 2021

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. She has completed a MSc in mental health recovery and social Inclusion and is a Trustee at the National Centre for Creative Health as well as a member of the Social Prescribing Network and Social Prescribing Academy. Debs is part of our sounddelivery media Spokesperson Network Programme. In this guest blog she shares how social prescribing gave her back her life.

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Donna Weaver: Kinship care can happen to anyone at any time, why does no one know what it is?
By sounddelivery
Posted on October 4, 2021

Donna Weaver is the proud kinship carer of three, and Director of the not-for-profit Kinship Carers UK. Donna is generating awareness and seeking change for future kinship carers. Donna is a member of the sounddelivery media spokesperson network. In this guest blog she share her experiences becoming a kinship carer, and asks why so many kinship carers go under the radar, unsupported.

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The Child Mental Health Crisis: Does Mentoring Matter?
By sounddelivery
Posted on September 7, 2021

Today is Youth Mental Health Day #YMHD, a day to encourage understanding and discussion of mental health in young people, and to talk about how to improve mental health. Beth Thomas is the Mentoring Scheme Co-Ordinator and Safeguarding Director at Our Place Support CIC, and in this guest blog she shares her own experiences and how mentoring can make a difference to youth mental health.

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Listening to the voices of the lived experience of mental health services
By sounddelivery
Posted on September 3, 2021

Debs Teale is an advocate of creativity in health following her own remarkable journey. Having been in the mental health system for most of her life and heavily dependent on medication it took an art class to totally transform her life. In this guest blog she writes on why she has a passion to promote everyone having a voice and a choice in their own care.

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Debs Teale: The start of something great
By sounddelivery
Posted on July 26, 2021

In May we launched our new spokesperson programme for grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice and social inequality. The programme sets out to build their skills, confidence, networks and platforms to enable them to become more media confident and public spokespeople offering their expertise and insight to the big issues facing us today. For the first time and with a lot of thought and planning we were able to hold an in-person residential, bringing our new cohort of 14 together for three days of masterclasses, reflection time, peer learning and fun at Cumberland Lodge. In this guest blog Debs from our network shared her reflections on the residential.

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John Crilly: Jimmy McGovern’s Time – an authentic portrayal of life inside prison
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 29, 2021

John Crilly is a campaigner with the not-for-profit JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) campaigning on behalf of, and with, those wrongfully convicted and is campaigning to reform legal abuse by Joint Enterprise and is part of our Spokesperson Network. In this guest blog he shares how the BBC Drama Time reflects his own experiences in prison and how he hopes it will change public perceptions around prisons.

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Steve Arnott: Children are the future and we must nurture their creativity
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 1, 2021

Steve is a hip-hop artist, protagonist of A Northern Soul and Founder and CEO of Beats Bus Records. He is also a public speaker and part of the sounddelivery Spokesperson Network. In this guest blog he talks about the importance of young people’s access to creative workshops and the potential impact of the closure of youth clubs and provisions for creativity.

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