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Lady Unchained: Coronavirus Lockdown Vs Prison Lockdown
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 experience of prison and how the coronavirus lockdown is affecting those in prison, and those who have left.
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TedxLondon: Conversations Beyond Borders Covid-19
Last Friday Jude was invited to join a TEDxLondon #ConversationsBeyondBorders which featured Jude in conversation with TEDxLondon curator Maryam Pasha who we work with on Being the Story – and Human Rights lawyer Sangeetha Iengar. It was an opportunity for Jude to share what she’s been hearing from grassroots organisations working on the front-line during this pandemic and how important it is to be active allies – listen to communities and ask what support they need.
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Listening to the Unheard Stories of the Coronavirus Pandemic
As the UK grapples to deal with COVID-19 we have become more reliant than ever on the frontline workers that hold up our services and support our communities. We hosted a Digital ThinkIn in partnership with Tortoise Media, Tortoise ‘ThinkIns’ bring different people together to debate the latest thing in the news. This ThinkIn was all about […]
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Listening – How my word of the year is vital right now
The word is Listening. At the start of the year I was invited to share on twitter what my word for 2020 would be. The word I chose was listening. And that single word over any other word I could have chosen feels more important than ever. Listening has always been core to my work […]
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Tracey Ford: Have we become desensitised to children being murdered?
In this guest blog Tracey Ford, Founder of the JAGS Foundation asks have we become desensitised to the murders of our children and young people. She discusses what needs to be done to fill the gaps of unprecedented needs for trauma affected children up and down the country. Tracey is part of our Being the Story Spokesperson Network.
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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.
