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Being the Story – Challenging My Perception of Storytelling
By sounddelivery
Posted on January 4, 2018

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.

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The Transformational Power of Volunteering – Meet Eddie
By sounddelivery
Posted on December 5, 2017

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”

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We Are All A #BenefittoSociety
By sounddelivery
Posted on October 4, 2017

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.

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Everybody In: How Crisis are gathering stigma-shattering stories to end homelessness
By sounddelivery
Posted on August 22, 2017

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 Nightingale,
Head of Marketing and Communications at homeless charity Crisis shares why they reached out for a new Storyteller to gather stigma-shattering stories to end homelessness.

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Teresa Driver – Solving UK Poverty must address the causes not the symptoms
By sounddelivery
Posted on July 4, 2017

Through our work we get to meet and connect with many incredible individuals, we met Teresa Driver at our flagship training day The Social Media Exchange where she attended through the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In this guest blog Teresa shares her experiences of working to fight poverty at a local, community level at The Wharton Trust in Hartlepool.

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We Are York Road Project – Sharing experiences of homelessness #WeAreYRP
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 19, 2017

Our mission at sounddelivery is to help organisations and individuals to amplify stories that often go unheard, we do this through our training, events and blog. We’re delighted to have just begun a Big Lottery-Funded storytelling project with Woking-based homeless charity York Road Project to work with the homeless individuals they support to share theirContinue reading “We Are York Road Project – Sharing experiences of homelessness #WeAreYRP”

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Ahmad: Riding On A Smile
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 13, 2017

At sounddelivery we champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. We do this through digital storytelling training with charities and individuals with lived experience and through our events which aim to build capacity within the sector and encourage and champion authentic storytelling. Being the Story is a platform for ordinary people with extraordinary stories to share their experiences widely. Our Being the Story events give a stage to individuals who are a voice for others covering a myriad of subjects. Ahmad came to London a year ago after fleeing Syria and found freedom through receiving a bike from the social enterprise, The Bike Project.

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Telling My Story for the Children Who are Afraid to Tell You Theirs
By sounddelivery
Posted on June 7, 2017

Through our work we get to meet and connect with many incredible individuals with powerful stories to tell. In this guest vlog Siobhan Pyburn shares her experiences of telling her story of child sexual abuse, and how this has motivated her to set-up her social enterprise the Beam Project to support those who have endured child sexual abuse, to speak up about this still stigmatised issue and to find ways of making the system better for vulnerable children.

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A Million Likes on Facebook Won’t Get Me A Kidney, But it Might
By sounddelivery
Posted on May 31, 2017

At sounddelivery we champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. We do this through digital storytelling training with charities and individuals with lived experience and through our events which aim to build capacity within the sector and encourage and champion authentic storytelling. Being the Story is a platform for ordinary people with extraordinary stories to share their experiences widely. Our Being the Story events give a stage to individuals who are a voice for others covering a myriad of subjects. Nicola Pietrzyk’s son was diagnosed with Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome at five weeks, she is using her story to raise awareness of the challenges and triumphs of finding an organ donor.

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Comments No comments just yet Tags being the story, organ donation, SMEX17, storytelling
Just Visiting …..by Barbara Burton, founder of BehindBras
By sounddelivery
Posted on May 16, 2017

Through our work we want to provide a platform for powerful storytelling and we get to meet many incredible individuals with important stories to tell. In her second guest blog Barbara Burton shares her experience returning to prison to share the work of her social enterprise, BehindBras.

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