Tonight at 8pm Channel 4 Dispatches will put the spotlight on the rise of ‘baby banks’ across the UK. Baby banks is a name that has been given to charities and voluntary organisations that give parents of young children essential products like nappies, clothes, cots and toys – they operate in a similar way toContinue reading “Channel 4 Dispatches – Born on the Breadline”
Being the Story is a movement to put a spotlight on important issues through giving a platform to incredible individuals with lived experience of everything from the criminal justice system, to domestic abuse, to war and conflict, the care system and more. Our one day Being the Story events feature the stories of 10 inspirational individuals which spark conversations, challenge perceptions and provoke ideas. In this guest blog, Being the Story delegate Philippa Budgen shares her thoughts from this year’s Being the Story event.
“Being The Story has an energy, intimacy and originality which makes it such a unique and valuable experience for all those taking part as well as all those in the audience” Marina Cantacuzino Forgiveness Project As many of you know our mission at sounddelivery is to champion stories that need to be told and to help amplify voicesContinue reading “Putting a spotlight on the Being the Story Movement – challenging social issues”
Cropping up in parks all over the world are groups of people that make up the parkrun community. parkrun is an organisation that holds weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are free, friendly, open to anyone and joined by more than 2.5 million participants – including me. parkrun is now the world’s largestContinue reading “How parkrun is building a community through stories”
Over the last few months sounddelivery has been running a series of storytelling workshops in partnership with the charity Little Village, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Little Village was set up in August 2015 by Sophia Parker and provides good quality baby clothes and equipment, donated by local families, to local families that needContinue reading “Meet Our Little Village Storytellers”
Through our work we get to meet and connect with many individuals and organisations using powerful stories to create change. In this guest blog Kate Lamb, who we met at our storytelling training day for Children with Cancer UK, shares her experience as a parent of a child with cancer. She hopes through sharing her visual poem she will bring hope to families going through their journeys and raise awareness.
It’s all go at sounddelivery HQ as we finalise the last details of the Social Media Exchange which takes place in just under two weeks on February 5. We’ll be bringing you a dynamic line up of charity and media sector experts who will lead our interactive and practical Masterclasses.We recently announced Dr. Sue BlackContinue reading “5 Reasons Why You Should Be Part of #SMEX18”
Being the Story is sounddelivery’s immersive storytelling event, a day giving a platform to 12 individuals who are using their personal experience to create positive social change. The National Expert Citizen Group is a National Lottery Funded organisation that acts as the national voice of 12 lived experience Expert Citizens’ groups around England that work in their areas to help understand and shape the future of multiple needs services in the UK. They supported some of their members to attend the day. In the following blog Lee, from the Expert Citizens of Stoke shares his Being the Story reflections.
Today is International Volunteers Day, a day to celebrate the power and potential of volunteering. To mark the day we wanted to share with you a thought-provoking personal story that does just that, demonstrates the power and potential that volunteering can have on a person’s life. The Big Lottery Fund was a partner of BeingContinue reading “The Transformational Power of Volunteering – Meet Eddie”
Everyone is talking about social housing at the moment, it’s been a strong theme at the party conferences this autumn and rightly so. In this guest blog Claire Hughes a tenant of Soha Housing, the not-for-profit housing association talks about their new campaign #BenefittoSociety which will represent Social Housing tenants and enable them to voice their concerns.
