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Update from our Being the Story Spokesperson Network – Our past 3 months
Earlier this year we launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a network of media confident spokespeople with real experience of pressing social issues facing UK society today. The aim of the programme is to improve representation and the diversity of voices in the media (and beyond) and to give our network of speakers a platform. […]
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Ric Flo: Thoughts on Farming, Foster Care & Belonging
In this guest blog rapper and foster care leaver Ric Flo shares his thoughts on Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s 2019 film Farming and his own experiences of growing up in Foster Care in a predominantly white community. Ric is part of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network Pilot Programme.
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Steve Arnott: I Am Not Who I Used to Be
Steve Arnott is the Founder of Hull Beats Bus, protagonist of Sean McAllister’s documentary A Northern Soul and member of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network. In this guest blog written during our network workshop, he shares how his life changed following a near-death experience.
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How charities can use programmes to raise their profile
Opportunities to work alongside production companies, as well as joining the existing conversation around relevant storylines in soap operas and TV and Radio programmes, films and documentaries, enable charities to increase awareness for their cause. Charities can piggyback with their content and messages. But we’ve seen some missed opportunities and heard from our network that […]
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Context matters: How we worked with the producers of Crime and Punishment to highlight the ‘revolving door’ experience
In this guest blog, Burcu Borysik, the policy manager at Revolving Doors Agency shares her experience working with a production company to put a spotlight on the ‘revolving door’ experience of the criminal justice system.
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Update from the Being the Story Spokesperson Network – What happened next?
Earlier this year we launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a network of media confident spokespeople with real experience of pressing social issues facing UK society today. As a pilot programme we’re learning along the way but we hit the ground running in July with a cohort of 21 dynamic individuals from around the country. […]
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Storytelling Workshops with the Family Rights Group
This month we’ve begun working on a project with the Family Rights Group funded by Lankelly Chase. Over the next six months we’ll be running a series of storytelling workshops for parents and kinship carers who are panel members for the charity and inform their work. The Family Rights Group (FRG) are a charity that […]
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Meet our Being the Story Spokesperson Network
Over the last six months we’ve been fundraising to pilot a programme for a Spokesperson Network of people with direct experience of some of our big social issues. These people are experts by experience and their ideas and solutions can and should be helping to create change. We are now thrilled to launch our pilot programme.
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Being the Story Spokesperson Network: Meet our Media Mentors
We’re crowdfunding a spokespersons network led by people with direct experience of some of our big social issues. Participants will have access to a range of training workshops, mentoring and media opportunities which we believe will raise their profile and ensure that they become the go-to people for comment on the issues they have experience of. We have fantastic and supportive media contacts who want to share their skills and professional expertise with our cohort. We believe that mentors will be key to breaking down barriers, demystifying the media and in the long term building collaborations for future programmes.
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Amanda: Why I’m championing a Spokespersons Network
I am part of a Hull-based collective of 12 women who published a book An Untold Story, telling our journey to the streets and back. We wanted our book to be honest, even if that honesty is brutal, and to also have integrity in highlighting the issues we have, or are still facing. We did this in our own words with stories, artwork, poems, and photos. We wanted to […]
