Today we are making two big announcements. The first is that we have been granted charitable status. We’ve always felt that our work was for the public benefit and felt that this was the right time in our journey to become a CIO. And secondly, we announce our cohort of 14 individuals who will be taking part in our new spokesperson programme for grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice and social inequality.
Leigha took part in The Story of Us; a series of workshops delivered by sounddelivery and commissioned as part of Coventry City of Culture led by a collective of Coventry’s City of Culture Trust alongside four charities – Grapevine, Central England Law Centre, Positive Youth Foundation and Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre. In this guest blog she shares how she’s speaking up and speaking out.
We’re proud to announce that applications are now open to recruit a new cohort of leaders to take part in sounddelivery’s Spokesperson Network Programme and I’d love you to share it with your networks or if you see yourself in the applicant profile – apply!
At sounddelivery it’s our mission to champion stories that need to be told, stories that challenge prejudice and disadvantage, and have the power to change the world around us. The Coronavirus Pandemic has showed how important people on the frontline are, the people who support our communities, and support the most vulnerable. The outbreak of the coronavirus and the uncertainty that it is bringing with it means we need to listen. We want to give a platform to the voices that may go unheard during this time, those with firsthand experience of the big social issues facing the UK.
Following the success of her debut children’s book The Boy at the Back of the Class, award-winning author, Being the Story speaker, member of our spokespersons network and dear friend of sounddelivery Onjali Rauf has just released her second book. Like her first book, The Star Outside My Window is told through the eyes of a child, it is a story that explores the subtle faces and endless impacts of domestic violence and ‘celebrates the power of hope and resilience’.
Last week we heard the sad news of the death of Joan Laurance who co-founded the charity The Family Holiday Association with her late husband Patrick. She was 98. The charity, which was founded in 1975, was the first charity I worked with when I had left the BBC and set up sounddelivery. The Family […]
Sophia Parker is the Founder and Chief Executive of Little Village, a London-based charity that acts as a foodbank, but for clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of five. In this guest blog she shares 6 lessons she learnt from engaging with the media from filming a documentary, featuring on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and a double-page spread in the Observer. At this year’s Social Media Exchange Emily Wilson from Channel 4 News, Miriam Wells from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism and Dan Dewsbury from 72 Films will be coming together to lead an interactive Masterclass on engaging with the media to demystify the process and answer all your questions exploring how charities and the media can come together to tell powerful stories.
Grab yourselves a cup of tea, a pair of headphones and enjoy our newest Storytelling Highlights.
Welcome to our weekly Storytelling Highlights. Here we share our weekly dose of things we’ve spotted that are great examples of storytelling. This is a list of things we’ve seen, heard or read about and would like to share with you.
In this guest blog Jessica Southgate shares her insights and take-aways from sounddelivery’s Being the Story event which took place on Friday 16th September.
