Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
31.12.2024 19:12 — 👍 10028 🔁 2684 💬 204 📌 171
A female food bank staff member stacks a box of food on shelf. A headline from the Express is pasted on the top. It reads: Food banks in UK pushed to breaking point as families seek essential support.
No one expects to need a food bank, especially at Christmas. 💚
We urgently need your help to provide emergency food, support and hope to people this winter.
Donate now 👉 bit.ly/4eOtESj #GivingTuesday
03.12.2024 08:46 — 👍 89 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 5
What a privilege to introduce @drlisacherry.bsky.social today keynote speaker at our Brighter Futures for Children’s staff wellbeing conference. Set the tone perfectly with a focus on belonging, relationships, self & collective care. Soundtracked by @ricflomusic 🤩 Thank you! 💕
26.11.2024 22:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
What Jim said 🎁 🎄Free Loaves on Fridays is the gift that keeps on giving long beyond Christmas Day, containing stories, poems & letters from 100 care-experienced children and adults.
Proceeds to Article 39 & The Together Trust.
unbound.com/books/free-loa…
21.11.2024 20:48 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."
19.11.2024 09:21 — 👍 6694 🔁 1313 💬 145 📌 60
Widow | Best-Selling Author | Speaker on loss by suicide | Communicator | Mentor | Mum | Mental Health | UK
Read: https://daddyblackbird.com/book/ 💛
Pro-Europe #socialist #RefugeesWelcome. Warning - I swear a lot because the world is on fire!
Artist and calligrapher; prolific tea-drinker. Sending positivity into the world through art and sunny Yorkshire vibes. More on IG @ now.then.sunshine
Buy my work at nowthensunshine.com
An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks working to end hunger together 💚
#socialwork academic researching #innovation, relationship-based practice, adolescent #safeguarding, #kindness, #socialcare. I lead @theinnovateproject.bsky.social -but gardening is my greatest love 🌈 https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
Recognising and supporting children affected by parental imprisonment | MSc | Member of @networkcope | Director and Chair of Omnia Learning Trust
Service Manager for Conference, Review, LADO and Participation at Brighter Futures for Children, Reading
Physician, author, podcast host
Menopause specialist
This account is run by Hat Trick, who make HIGNFY. The BBC have asked us to point out it's nothing to do with them; the feed that is, not the TV show.
Writers. Actors. But most of all: Mothers. 🎬 SKETCHES: http://youtube.com/larryandpaul
💸 SUPPORT: http://ko-fi.com/larryandpaul
KC (hon). UK's most experienced full-time legal commentator. Honorary bencher, Gray's Inn. Former solicitor (non-practising). Writes at https://rozenberg.substack.com
Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Recounting UK House of Commons divisions in proportion to the GE24 popular vote. See FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/4hxyc8e7
#MakeVotesMatter #ProportionalRepresentation
Previously @PropVoting on Twitter.
Founder & CEO www.pure-insight.org.uk a dynamic charity dedicated to empowering care-exp young people. Passionate about amplifying lived exp, we specialise in fostering collaborative relationships & designing transformative, place based community solutions
Campaigns & Participation Manager at Become Charity for Care experienced children and young people.
Interested in youth participation, children's rights, and reform of the Care system. In my personal life, I love being outdoors, swimming, and aerial hoop.
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol.
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