Guest Blog: Helping Staff To Feel They Belong
Guest blog about inclusivity at work from Kath Howard - Assistant Director of People & OD at Samaritans Organisations can be lonely places. It’s not unusual for organisations to talk about ‘employee engagement’ and inclusion but when the big stuff goes on in someone’s personal life, it’s
Blinking and thinking
Tuning into instinct, how to create new values, and Moonstruck
Where Power Lies: Putting Lived Experience at the Heart of Decision-Making
> 'There’s really no such thing as the “voiceless”. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.’ – Arundhati Roy Right from the outset of my quarter-century career in the voluntary sector, I’ve been troubled by the frequent disconnect between those at the leadership levels of
All about my mother
Not your usual newsletter this week
Queen of the New Year
Looking for hope in dark times
Passing the Baton and Sharing Power
As we enter the next phase of living with Covid-19, it’s been interesting to look back and reflect on what this time has revealed about the interplay between social change and power, particularly in London where I live and work, and where I am also a Lambeth councillor. In
Pride Month in a Plague Year
It’s a strange Pride Month this year. Instead of coming together in festivals, marches and celebrations during June and on into the summer, over 500 Prides around the world have been cancelled or postponed. Lesbians, gay men, bi, and transgender people the world over are reeling from the impacts
Charities Seem to be Failing at Change and Justice. So What’s the Point of Them?
I wrote this post with my colleague, Matthew Sherrington. It originally appeared in Third Sector Let us know what you think! There are moments when scales fall from eyes, and you start seeing things afresh, perhaps as they always were. Moments that become turning points. Covid 19 should be the
"I know when to go out..."
Tools for anti-racists, Malcolm X in Smethwick, and lockdown birthdays
Brave new what?
I’ve been thinking about trees a lot recently and enjoying some of London’s rare trees from my desk via this this web site which launched this week. I’ve also been looking back at old travel photos to try to not mind that I’m going nowhere fast.