CEO of local children’s charity SELFA in Skipton, Emma Pears, makes a case for changing the funding system for small charities. Emma is part of our Spokesperson Network 2022.
Jenny is a domestic worker born in the Philippines. She worked in the government sector but the salary was not enough to feed her family. She left this good job and ventured abroad to work for her family’s future. She is now one of the active members of The Voice of Domestic Workers and was part of our Future Voices Programme partnership. Here she shares her story.
Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. Anna’s dad, Ralph, took his own life when she was nine and that loss had a profound impact on both her own life and the lives of those around her. Here Anna talks about her Churchill Fellowship Report and her new BBC Radio 4 Four Thought sharing her own experience and speaking on why we need better support for children and young people who lose a parent or primary caregiver to suicide. And why that should start with counting them.
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Shaffia Khatun is the Co-Founder and Director of SKY Positive Minds, an award-winning charity that works to empower vulnerable women, girls and children from the local community who have experienced domestic abuse, sexual abuse or have been affected by mental health or other challenges. Here she explores why services are not hearing the voices of South Asian women.
Dareen from The Voice of Domestic Workers tells her story of surviving modern day slavery and how she came to be an active campaigner for fellow survivors. Dareen was part of our Future Voices Network in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers.
Amanda Hailes is part of the Hull-based women’s collective An Untold Story – Voices, campaigning for women’s rights and social justice, and is in the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network. Here she writes about her experience of challenging self-limiting beliefs and practices and unlocking the power of lived experience to build her own power.
Today is Anti-Slavery day putting a spotlight on the hidden crime of modern slavery. In this blog Marigold from our Future Voices Programme with The Voice of Domestic Workers writes on how the governments hostile environment policies are making it harder for victims of modern slavery.
Zain Hafeez is a Community Organiser and a Team Leader at Citizens UK where he supports asylum seekers, victims of domestic abuse and modern slavery. He possesses more than 10 years of lived experience of going through the asylum and immigration system. He writes on how the current cost of living crisis will further marginalise asylum seekers.
Trigger Warning: domestic abuse & domestic violence.
Samantha Billingham from our Spokesperson Network Programme 2022 offers a glimpse of what domestic abuse can look like behind closed doors. She set up SODA (Survivors of Domestic Abuse) to offer others the support she never had.
The 1st October marks Stoma Aware Day, this year Steve Arnott from our Spokesperson Network has had a breakthrough around his Stoma of three years and is now campaigning and raising awareness to challenge the stigma that surrounds Stomas. He shares his experience in this guest blog.
