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.
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.
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 toContinue reading “Amanda: Why I’m championing a Spokespersons Network”
The Social Media Exchange is our annual creative day for the charity sector celebrating the power of digital storytelling and its potential to have a positive impact on the world around us. At this year’s Social Media Exchange (#SMEX19) we were thrilled to welcome BAFTA-nominated producer, curator and storyteller Elhum Shakerifar as our keynote speaker. Elhum embodied our event theme – “Championing our Stories” making it her mission to amplify voices we need to hear through film and supporting others to do the same through her international film education projects.
At the Social Media Exchange 2019 sounddelivery welcomed BAFTA-nominated Producer and Curator Elhum Shakerifar to give the Keynote speech. I am a documentary producer and curator. I have been making films for 10 years and came to filmmaking from an unusual journey through Persian literature, photography, anthropology and many years working in the third sector,Continue reading “Elhum Shakerifar – We are the stories we tell”
This international women’s day we want to celebrate just a few of the many incredible women we’ve had the honour of working with. Through our Being the Story events we’ve been privileged to meet women who are creating real social change in their sectors and communities, harnessing their lived experience to speak out and campaignContinue reading “International Women’s Day 2019 – Women Leading the Way”
I am absolutely thrilled to share that my friend, campaigner, activist, writer and Being the Story speaker Onjali Rauf won the Blue Peter Book Awards in the ‘best story’ category for her book The Boy at the Back of the Class. This award celebrates children’s books published in the last year. Since 2000, these awardsContinue reading “Celebrating our Friend; Author, Speaker and Activist Onjali Rauf”
This week sounddelivery launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to create a network of media confident spokespeople with direct experience of some of the pressing issues facing society today. From our work delivering frontline projects and events like Being the Story we know there’s a need for what we do. In the UK today gun andContinue reading “Building A Grassroots Spokespersons Network – Why we’re crowdfunding this March”
