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.
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.
