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 experience of prison and how the coronavirus lockdown is affecting those in prison, and those who have left.
Last Friday Jude was invited to join a TEDxLondon #ConversationsBeyondBorders which featured Jude in conversation with TEDxLondon curator Maryam Pasha who we work with on Being the Story – and Human Rights lawyer Sangeetha Iengar. It was an opportunity for Jude to share what she’s been hearing from grassroots organisations working on the front-line during this pandemic and how important it is to be active allies – listen to communities and ask what support they need.
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 aboutContinue reading “Listening to the Unheard Stories of the Coronavirus Pandemic”
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 workContinue reading “Listening – How my word of the year is vital right now”
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 toContinue reading “Social Media Exchange | Newcastle, 5 March 2020”
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.Continue reading “Update from our Being the Story Spokesperson Network – Our past 3 months”
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 thatContinue reading “How charities can use programmes to raise their profile”
