Palma Black is the founder of Soul Purpose 360 CIC, a coaching, mentoring and training social enterprise for Black women; blending community development with personal development. She is a Personal Performance Coach who is passionate about empowering individuals to live fulfilling lives. In this blog, she explores her experience growing up in England faced with racial harassment and looks at what Windrush means 75 years later.
Ellie Hatto is the Founder and CEO of Beside Yourself CIC and Co-founder of Voices – People with Living Experience of Suicide (Hampshire County Council). In this blog she shares her reflections on joining our 2023 Spokesperson Programme and what she learnt from her fellow spokespeople at our residential to help her face her fears.
Craig Jones MBE is Executive Chair at Fighting with Pride supporting LGBTQ+ veterans who 20+ years on have felt the lifelong impacts of the military ban on homosexuality. In the week that this community awaits the findings of LGBTQ+ Veterans Independent Review, a new film Forced Out exposes the treatment of LGBT+ military personnel before the ban was lifted and highlights why reparations must be given.
Today we are excited to announce our new cohort who will be taking part in our 2023 Spokesperson Programme for grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice and inequality.
Steve Arnott, Founder and CEO of Beats Bus Records in Hull, shares how the long lasting impact of stigma against poverty manifests and explains his work with Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s design team ‘Exploring Stigma and Poverty’. Steve is part of the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network.
Beth Thomas is the Mentoring Scheme Manager and Safeguarding Director at Our Place Support in the West Midlands. She has a MSC in Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing. Here she shares her experience and insights on Bipolar Disorder, what has made a difference for her, and her hopes for change. Beth is part of the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network.
The Secret Life of Mothers is a new podcast from Maggie Gordon-Walker at Mothers Uncovered from our Spokesperson Network. In this blog she shares the inspiration behind her new podcast series and why we need to talk about the highs and lows, the ins and outs of becoming a new mother.
Steve Arnott, Founder and CEO of Beats Bus Records in Hull, explains how creativity through arts and music could be the key to supporting children’s mental health. For Children’s Mental Health Week 2023, Steve shares the process and thinking behind Beats Bus Records and how they support young people.
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.
