Posts about Storytelling

Learning from Covid-19 to improve services so the next person gets the help they need

By sounddelivery

Posted on May 19, 2020

Phil works with Expert Citizens, he is a part of multiple peer research teams and is an insight evaluator. Expert Citizens is a community interest company led by an independent group of people who have all experienced multiple needs – combinations of mental ill health, homelessness, addiction and offending behaviour. They give their ideas to services like the local authority, police and homelessness services of Stoke-on-Trent, and nationally, to help guide and shape them to improve the care of multiple needs citizens. In this guest blog Phil shares how Covid19 has impacted him and his hopes for how it could impact services for the better beyond the pandemic.

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Solutions to homelessness aren’t a temporary thing – it’s time to shake up the system

By sounddelivery

Posted on May 12, 2020

Nikki Aitchison is the Head of Employment Development Projects, at Aspire – an award winning Charity and Social Enterprise. Aspire works with people experiencing significant disadvantage in their lives such as homelessness, providing personalised support to build on their strengths to overcome barriers. Over half of the team have lived experience of overcoming adversity, and Aspire works to innovate, and get upstream to prevent problems spiralling in the first place. In this guest blog Nikki shares a spoken word piece, and writes about how we need to use this pandemic to shake up the system and create change in the homelessness sector.

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Md Mominul Hamid: Am I a Number or a Human Being?

By sounddelivery

Posted on April 27, 2020

Md Mominul Hamid is a human rights ambassador and community advocate who is campaigning for the rights of asylum seekers to access higher education. He is an asylum seeker himself, and in this guest blog he shares how he has been recently dedicating his time to support other asylum seekers and vulnerable people by setting up his own food bank, as well as handing out food parcels around his community on his bike.

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The Unheard Stories of the Coronavirus Pandemic – Digital ThinkIn 2

By Anu Farinto

Posted on April 16, 2020

As the UK lockdown continues in the fight to deal with COVID-19, new challenges have arisen for some of the most vulnerable people in society and we have become more reliant than ever on the frontline workers that hold up our services and support our communities. This week we partnered on our second Digital ThinkIn with Tortoise Media. Tortoise ‘ThinkIns’ bring different people together to debate the latest thing in the news. This series of ThinkIns is all about listening to the unheard stories of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Locked down or Locked out? How the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities are coping with Covid-19

By sounddelivery

Posted on April 15, 2020

Helen Jones is the CEO of Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange which is a West Yorkshire based membership organisation for Gypsy and Traveller people. Leeds GATE offers support and development activities, as well as raising awareness of the needs and assets of the communities. In this guest blog Helen shares the largely unheard impact that Covid-19 is having for the UK’s Gypsy and Traveller communities.

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Capturing Stories from the Frontline: Commissioning an Audio Diary

By sounddelivery

Posted on April 7, 2020

We know that our networks are thinking about how they capture and tell their stories from the frontline as the global community tackles the coronavirus pandemic. Audio Diaries are a great way of showing what is going on in your communities. This is a guide to commissioning an audio diary using a mobile phone. AnContinue reading “Capturing Stories from the Frontline: Commissioning an Audio Diary”

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