At the Social Media Exchange 2019 sounddelivery welcomed BAFTA-nominated Producer and Curator Elhum Shakerifar to give the Keynote speech. I am a documentary producer and curator. I have been making films for 10 years and came to filmmaking from an unusual journey through Persian literature, photography, anthropology and many years working in the third sector,Continue reading “Elhum Shakerifar – We are the stories we tell”
Last week we heard the sad news of the death of Joan Laurance who co-founded the charity The Family Holiday Association with her late husband Patrick. She was 98. The charity, which was founded in 1975, was the first charity I worked with when I had left the BBC and set up sounddelivery. The FamilyContinue reading “A Tribute to Joan Laurance Co Founder of the Family Holiday Association”
This international women’s day we want to celebrate just a few of the many incredible women we’ve had the honour of working with. Through our Being the Story events we’ve been privileged to meet women who are creating real social change in their sectors and communities, harnessing their lived experience to speak out and campaignContinue reading “International Women’s Day 2019 – Women Leading the Way”
I am absolutely thrilled to share that my friend, campaigner, activist, writer and Being the Story speaker Onjali Rauf won the Blue Peter Book Awards in the ‘best story’ category for her book The Boy at the Back of the Class. This award celebrates children’s books published in the last year. Since 2000, these awardsContinue reading “Celebrating our Friend; Author, Speaker and Activist Onjali Rauf”
This week sounddelivery launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to create a network of media confident spokespeople with direct experience of some of the pressing issues facing society today. From our work delivering frontline projects and events like Being the Story we know there’s a need for what we do. In the UK today gun andContinue reading “Building A Grassroots Spokespersons Network – Why we’re crowdfunding this March”
The Social Media Exchange is our annual creative day for the charity sector celebrating the power of digital storytelling and its potential to have a positive impact on the world around us. Always a highlight of the day, our Lightning Talks bring together three thought-provoking speakers who define our event theme ‘Championing our Stories’. TheseContinue reading “Dr George Julian ‘Live Tweeting Inquests #OpenJustice’”
The Social Media Exchange is our annual creative day for the charity sector celebrating the power of digital storytelling and its potential to have a positive impact on the world around us. Always a highlight of the day, our Lightning Talks bring together thought-provoking speakers who define our event theme ‘Championing our Stories’. This year we were thrilled to have Travon Steadman share his story as a care leaver and the change he wants to see.
The Social Media Exchange is our annual creative day for the charity sector celebrating the power of digital storytelling and its potential to have a positive impact on the world around us. Always a highlight of the day, our Lightning Talks bring together three thought-provoking speakers who define our event theme ‘Championing our Stories’. Here we publish Travon Steadman’s full script, sharing his story as a care leaver.
The Social Media Exchange is our annual creative day for the charity sector celebrating the power of digital storytelling and its potential to have a positive impact on the world around us. Always a highlight of the day, our Lightning Talks bring together three thought-provoking speakers who define our event theme ‘Championing our Stories’. TheseContinue reading “Emma Lawton ‘Why We All Need a F—it List’”
Sophia Parker is the Founder and Chief Executive of Little Village, a London-based charity that acts as a foodbank, but for clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of five. In this guest blog she shares 6 lessons she learnt from engaging with the media from filming a documentary, featuring on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and a double-page spread in the Observer. At this year’s Social Media Exchange Emily Wilson from Channel 4 News, Miriam Wells from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism and Dan Dewsbury from 72 Films will be coming together to lead an interactive Masterclass on engaging with the media to demystify the process and answer all your questions exploring how charities and the media can come together to tell powerful stories.
