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.
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.
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 IContinue reading “Be part of a movement to put lived experience at the heart of media conversations”
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.
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.
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 theirContinue reading “Introducing The Voice of Domestic Workers Future Voices Programme “
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.
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.
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.
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.
