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 workContinue reading “Listening – How my word of the year is vital right now”
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.
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.Continue reading “Update from our Being the Story Spokesperson Network – Our past 3 months”
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.
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.
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 thatContinue reading “How charities can use programmes to raise their profile”
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.
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.Continue reading “Update from the Being the Story Spokesperson Network – What happened next?”
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 thatContinue reading “Storytelling Workshops with the Family Rights Group”
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.
