Lynn is part of Future Voices programme in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers. Future Voices is a unique leadership programme which works with migrant domestic workers to become spokespeople and speak out against the issues that their community face.
Lovelyjoy is part of Future Voices programme in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers. Future Voices is a unique leadership programme which works with migrant domestic workers to become spokespeople and speak out against the issues that their community face.
Vangie is part of Future Voices programme in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers. Future Voices is a unique leadership programme which works with migrant domestic workers to become spokespeople and speak out against the issues that their community face.
Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. For Children’s Grief Awareness Week 2023, Anna reflects on how very different a child’s experience of grief can be after the loss of a parent or primary caregiver, depending on how that person’s life ended. Anna is in our Spokesperson Network.
Next week [Monday 16th October 1-2pm] Sounddelivery Media will be hosting a lunchtime panel to showcase pioneering lived experience experts leading the debate around suicide prevention and the impact of bereavement. A subject which matters to all of us. The government recently published a new national strategy on suicide prevention and has pledged to reduceContinue reading “A Conversation on Suicide – from the perspectives of leaders with direct experience”
Maggie Gordon-Walker, from our Spokesperson Network, is the founder of Mothers Uncovered, a Sussex peer-led organisation that supports women in matrescence (the transition to motherhood) with creative groups led by past participants. In this blog, she explores the role of the motherhood and pregnancy in the film Barbie (2023).
Sue Beere is Survivor Advocate at APPEAL, a charity and law practice dedicated to fighting miscarriages of justice and demanding reform. This blog tells the story of the day her husband Jon was arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Jon was one of five men who were sentenced to a total of 104 years’ imprisonment in 2011, despite maintaining their innocence of conspiracy to import Class A drugs. The case is known as the Freshwater Five.
Jon has now been released from prison after 12 years but their journey of a wrongful conviction continues. APPEAL took Jon’s case on and helped gather evidence showing his innocence.
Sue is on our Spokesperson Network.
A consultation is underway over whether to close train ticket offices at railway stations. But how will this impact those with learning disabilities? Ben McCay, who is part of our Spokesperson Network, is Chair of Trustees at user-led charity My Life My Choice and has a learning disability. Here he explains the impact closures could have.
Zain Hafeez, from our Spokesperson Network, arrived in the UK aged 12 from Pakistan. Growing up in the UK under the asylum system, he responds to the passing of the Illegal Migration Bill in parliament this week and what this means for child detainees.
Craig Jones MBE, from the Sounddelivery Media Spokesperson Network Alumni, is Executive Chair at Fighting with Pride supporting LGBTQ+ veterans who 20+ years on have felt the lifelong impacts of the military ban on homosexuality. Today, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued an apology on behalf of the British state to those affected by the ban.
