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Refugee Week, #ThisisMyStory, Leaving Prison and more in our Storytelling Highlights
This week has brought lots of great excuses to share powerful stories (not that we need them). We’ve been celebrating #RefugeeWeek, sharing experiences for Learning Disability Week (LDWeek2017) and we’ve loved the storytelling around Agenda’s new storytelling campaign, too. So here is this week’s Storytelling Highlights, what we’ve seen, heard or read about and would […]
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We Are York Road Project – Sharing experiences of homelessness #WeAreYRP
Our mission at sounddelivery is to help organisations and individuals to amplify stories that often go unheard, we do this through our training, events and blog. We’re delighted to have just begun a Big Lottery-Funded storytelling project with Woking-based homeless charity York Road Project to work with the homeless individuals they support to share their […]
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Ahmad: Riding On A Smile
At sounddelivery we champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. We do this through digital storytelling training with charities and individuals with lived experience and through our events which aim to build capacity within the sector and encourage and champion authentic storytelling. Being the Story is a platform for ordinary people with extraordinary stories to share their experiences widely. Our Being the Story events give a stage to individuals who are a voice for others covering a myriad of subjects. Ahmad came to London a year ago after fleeing Syria and found freedom through receiving a bike from the social enterprise, The Bike Project.
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#ChrissySentMe, The Camp, Rehab: Lives Addicted and more in our Storytelling Highlights
Welcome to this week’s Storytelling Highlights, sharing what we’ve seen, heard or read about and would like to share from the worlds of charity and digital storytelling. It has been a tragic week in London and unpredictable and tense time in British politics. Our favourite image to keep us in check was the wonderful policeman […]
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Telling My Story for the Children Who are Afraid to Tell You Theirs
Through our work we get to meet and connect with many incredible individuals with powerful stories to tell. In this guest vlog Siobhan Pyburn shares her experiences of telling her story of child sexual abuse, and how this has motivated her to set-up her social enterprise the Beam Project to support those who have endured child sexual abuse, to speak up about this still stigmatised issue and to find ways of making the system better for vulnerable children.
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Catching A Killer, #LifeWithCancer, #RevoltAgainstSexualAssault and more in our Storytelling Highlights
Welcome to our Storytelling Highlights, where each Friday we share our top picks of what we’ve seen, heard or read about across digital storytelling, charity campaigning, TV, and the arts. And we’re always looking for new and interesting ways of sharing powerful stories, so do let us know if you have some to share. Now, find […]
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A Million Likes on Facebook Won’t Get Me A Kidney, But it Might
At sounddelivery we champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. We do this through digital storytelling training with charities and individuals with lived experience and through our events which aim to build capacity within the sector and encourage and champion authentic storytelling. Being the Story is a platform for ordinary people with extraordinary stories to share their experiences widely. Our Being the Story events give a stage to individuals who are a voice for others covering a myriad of subjects. Nicola Pietrzyk’s son was diagnosed with Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome at five weeks, she is using her story to raise awareness of the challenges and triumphs of finding an organ donor.
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Being the Story, #LifeChangers, Catching A Killer and more in our Storytelling Highlights
Welcome to our Storytelling Highlights, this where we share what we’ve seen, heard or read about and would like to share from the worlds of charity comms and digital storytelling. The attack in Manchester this week was horrific, but it’s events like this that can unite us and really show the generosity and kindness of […]
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#UkSaysNoMore, Just Visiting, Three Girls and more in our Storytelling Highlights
Welcome to our Storytelling Highlights, this where we share what we’ve seen, heard or read about and would like to share from the worlds of charity comms and digital storytelling. An Untold Story update- we were delighted to hear Gemma, Millie and Porscha speak to BBC World Service on Saturday, listen here. Our May e-news […]
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Just Visiting …..by Barbara Burton, founder of BehindBras
Through our work we want to provide a platform for powerful storytelling and we get to meet many incredible individuals with important stories to tell. In her second guest blog Barbara Burton shares her experience returning to prison to share the work of her social enterprise, BehindBras.
