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.
Paul Brook is chief copywriter at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In this guest blog on doodling, he shares how his JRF doodles focus on making sense of UK poverty, while his doodles for Blurt have illustrated his experiences of depression and anxiety. At this year’s Social Media Exchange Anu Liisanantti, Communications at Hibiscus will be facilitating a lunchbite to get you doodling. She’ll be looking at different examples and creating your own doodles, using basic techniques to make even complex messages more accessible.
Tonight at 8pm Channel 4 Dispatches will put the spotlight on the rise of ‘baby banks’ across the UK. Baby banks is a name that has been given to charities and voluntary organisations that give parents of young children essential products like nappies, clothes, cots and toys – they operate in a similar way toContinue reading “Channel 4 Dispatches – Born on the Breadline”
Being the Story is a movement to put a spotlight on important issues through giving a platform to incredible individuals with lived experience of everything from the criminal justice system, to domestic abuse, to war and conflict, the care system and more. Our one day Being the Story events feature the stories of 10 inspirational individuals which spark conversations, challenge perceptions and provoke ideas. In this guest blog, Being the Story delegate Philippa Budgen shares her thoughts from this year’s Being the Story event.
“Being The Story has an energy, intimacy and originality which makes it such a unique and valuable experience for all those taking part as well as all those in the audience” Marina Cantacuzino Forgiveness Project As many of you know our mission at sounddelivery is to champion stories that need to be told and to help amplify voicesContinue reading “Putting a spotlight on the Being the Story Movement – challenging social issues”
Cropping up in parks all over the world are groups of people that make up the parkrun community. parkrun is an organisation that holds weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are free, friendly, open to anyone and joined by more than 2.5 million participants – including me. parkrun is now the world’s largestContinue reading “How parkrun is building a community through stories”
