Sport should be for everybody, yet many Muslim communities still face barriers to feeling welcome, safe and represented in sporting spaces. Having joined our Spokesperson Leadership Programme, Asma Ajaz-Ali, interim CEO of Muslim Sports Foundation, reflects on her mission to make sport more inclusive for Muslim communities.
The people closest to social issues should be at the centre of conversations shaping change. That’s why we’re proud to welcome 14 new grassroots leaders to our 2026 Spokesperson Leadership Programme.
In 2024, 275 people joined us for Sounddelivery Media’s first Festival of Learning. Across eight days of practical workshops, honest conversations and peer learning, we created space for people with lived experience to strengthen their voice, build confidence and influence change.
We’re living in a moment when it’s becoming harder to know what to trust. Misinformation and disinformation spreads quickly. Often designed to provoke and divide, stories can be distorted and amplified instantly. Images can be manipulated and videos generated. This means it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sort fact from fiction.
Every year, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) arrives with a mixture of heaviness and hope. For many, it is a day of awareness. For survivors, it is a day that echoes through our bodies and our memories. It is a reminder of what we endured — and of how far we have come.
As Sounddelivery Media’s new CEO, Monica Tyler looks ahead to the next phase of the organisation and how she hopes it will evolve in 2026. With lived experience and community at its heart, her ambition is to strengthen and amplify grassroots leadership across the UK.
Once a month, for two hours, supervised in the community, was my legal right to a meaningful relationship with my children. Christmases meant giving their gifts to them on a cold park bench within my allocated time.
Bernie Rochford MBE is a Principle Freedom to Speak Up Guardian supporting those speaking up in the NHS. In this blog, Bernie shares the life-changing experience she had for speaking up / whistleblowing in the NHS and where that’s led her.
In this new piece, Laura Fisher speaks out about the harm caused when far-right narratives hijack survivor experiences to push hate. Laura is the Founder of Survivor Sanctuary and part of our 2025 Spokesperson programme.
In this blog, we share first-hand insights from an Afghan refugee on the realities and concerns facing their community since the Fall of Kabul.
