Amanda Hailes is a women’s rights campaigner, volunteer outreach worker and peer researcher for organisations including AVA and Agenda. She is passionate about highlighting multiple disadvantage and championing those with lived experience. In this guest blog she shares how the lessons she learnt whilst in recovery are helping her through coronavirus lockdown.
As the UK lockdown continues in the fight to deal with COVID-19, new challenges have arisen for some of the most vulnerable people in society and we have become more reliant than ever on the frontline workers that hold up our services and support our communities. Our third Digital ThinkIn with Tortoise gave a platform to some of these frontline workers.
Md Mominul Hamid is a human rights ambassador and community advocate who is campaigning for the rights of asylum seekers to access higher education. He is an asylum seeker himself, and in this guest blog he shares how he has been recently dedicating his time to support other asylum seekers and vulnerable people by setting up his own food bank, as well as handing out food parcels around his community on his bike.
sounddelivery Founder Jude Habib shares her reflections on the BBC Radio 4 Documentary; Unchained. Unchained was presented by Brenda Birungi aka Lady Unchained and shares the stories of women failed by the criminal justice system. One of the testimonies was shared by Amanda Hailes, Amanda and Brenda are part of sounddelivery’s Spokesperson Network.
Brenda Birungi aka 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 journey from prison to presenting her first documentary for BBC Radio 4.
Hannah Green is a freelance writer and activist. She writes about her lived experience of homelessness and PTSD and these experiences drive her passion to change things for other young people. Hannah is a volunteer and trustee at Scarborough Survivors and also volunteers with the Wave Project. In this guest blog she shares how Covid-19 has impacted her.
As the UK lockdown continues in the fight to deal with COVID-19, new challenges have arisen for some of the most vulnerable people in society and we have become more reliant than ever on the frontline workers that hold up our services and support our communities. This week we partnered on our second Digital ThinkIn with Tortoise Media. Tortoise ‘ThinkIns’ bring different people together to debate the latest thing in the news. This series of ThinkIns is all about listening to the unheard stories of the coronavirus pandemic.
Helen Jones is the CEO of Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange which is a West Yorkshire based membership organisation for Gypsy and Traveller people. Leeds GATE offers support and development activities, as well as raising awareness of the needs and assets of the communities. In this guest blog Helen shares the largely unheard impact that Covid-19 is having for the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities.
At sounddelivery it’s our mission to champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. The Coronavirus Pandemic has showed how important people on the frontline are, the people who support our communities, and support the most vulnerable. The outbreak of the coronavirus and the uncertainty that it is bringing with it means we need to listen. We want to give a platform to the voices that may go unheard during this time, those with firsthand experience of the big social issues facing the UK.
We know that our networks are thinking about how they capture and tell their stories from the frontline as the global community tackles the coronavirus pandemic. Audio Diaries are a great way of showing what is going on in your communities. This is a guide to commissioning an audio diary using a mobile phone. An […]
