Jen Bird

We’re seeing this across so many areas… Deaf community services / interpreting also gone this way, a sure fire way to increase risk, erode the economy and fail people

An absolute pleasure to be part of another School for Social Entrepreneurs programme: NHS London Accelerator. I pitched yesterday. Incredibly inspiring to be with other founders: Dads Kids Club Everyone's A Singer @synappro.bsky.social @talkinghands.bsky.social The Bridge. Good luck to everyone!

What a relief to get my account back... no idea why it was suspended (hopefully no false reports and just an over enthusiastic bot mistake), but I really did not want to go back on X/Twitter! 😅

Huge congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the #socentawards25 this evening! Too many to mention but here’s a couple! @littlegreenchange.bsky.social @zatoun.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: As announced today in the Budget, the Government has published its call for evidence for co-op growth.

Launching this investigation on the day of the Budget sends a clear message: this government is committed to growing the co-operative economy.

Great news to get the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social manifesto pledge moving @signalisecoop.bsky.social #coops

❓What is a social enterprise?

A social enterprise is a business for good.

Signalise...

... gives customers value
... increases access for the Deaf community
...and supports interpreters!

😍 🤘🏻

#SocialEnterpriseDay

Happy #SocialEnterpriseDay!

Did you know💡

📈There are 131,000 social enterprises across the country, representing almost 1 in 42 of all UK businesses.

💰£1b in profits has been re-invested to drive social change in the last year

🤝Social enterprises employ 2.3 million people in the UK!

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Congrats to the
@coopparty.party.coop
on a successful campaign for music fans!

Congrats! Excellent campaign, is sport covered too?

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VyYXBKY... Donate now! #BackOurSocialClubs @localtrust.org.uk

Signalise joins more public sector frameworks for interpreting and translation We’re proud to announce that Signalise is now approved on two national NHS frameworks and one local framework...

@signalisecoop.bsky.social is on two national frameworks for in-person and video interpreting - NHS Shared Business Services and HealthTrust Europe.

Proud of our achievements in tech, reducing missed appointments and inequalities... led by coop members 💪

🔗 Blog: signalise.coop/p/blog-25110...

Surely this has to stop, sign petition please!

Sign the Petition Mandate Festivals to Tackle Abandoned Camping Gear

Mandate Festivals to Tackle Abandoned Camping Gear chng.it/Yk8DM25W via @UKChange

Reflections from Labour Party Conference: For the third year running, Signalise Co-op supported the Labour Party (UK) conference. It was a privilege to work with our brilliant BSL/English… | Jennifer... Reflections from Labour Party Conference: For the third year running, Signalise Co-op supported the Labour Party (UK) conference. It was a privilege to work with our brilliant BSL/English interpreter...

First experience of chatGPT editing out something political...
Wrote a round-up of the Labour Party and included Reform critising DWP for spending so much on interpreters (think return on investment people). Asked for a quick edit and it dropped it! 😲 www.linkedin.com/posts/jenbir...

Mutual and Co-operatives Sector Business Council reception … importance of #coops for the economy, for Places and the aims to double the size of the sector #labourconference @rosemarley.bsky.social

While everyone is getting hyped for the Labour Deputy Leadership

The Co-op Party is holding a by-election for its NEC in England North (NW, NE, Y&H)

I’m delighted to announce I’m standing as someone active our movement I know that Co-op values are only way Labour can defeat reform

Lisa Nandy MP at the diverse communities reception… diversity was part of growing up in the UK and we need to fight for the country we believe in

Diversity reception at #labourconference Baroness Jacqui Smith … other parties do not want equalities but Labour does, it is part of our mission

What an end to #dovasdag2025 #dövasdag in Sweden 🇸🇪 with the supremely talented SignMark 🤩🤩🤩 Tell me someone in the UK has booked him for his final tour in 2026… #deafdayuk anyone? #deaf #signlanguage

Kids are involved in #dovasdag #dovasdag2025 and I can see #deafpride #deafidentity and #signlangage… I imagine there are hearing parents here too mingling and absorbing #deafculture 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 this is community 🤩 2/2

THIS is how you do #deaf day #dövasdag #dovasdag2025 exhibition stands, performances, culture, information and debates… and the kids are right there, included and part of the community, art, #deafidentity and #signlanguage 1/2

Onto Stockholm and a busy day on Thursday meeting Sveriges Dovas Riksforbund (Swedish #deaf association) and 2 interpreters… everyone has been so welcoming! The global stories of what we’ve achieved are to be celebrated but even in #sweden so much more to do for #signlanguage and #accessibility

Trump Canceled Millions for Special Education Teacher Training. What's Next? More than $30 million for teacher training and parent resources will no longer flow as scheduled.

My colleagues are losing funding left and right: and its not just research it is to train specialists teachers. It was a quick Friday afternoon dump that got my field on fire, here is a mainstream article

#Disability #DEI #TeacherPreparation #Academia #Blind #LowVision #TSVI #COMS #Braille #Deaf

Chatting to an American couple in Stockholm. He was a pastor and his wife used to sign in church for a 5 year old deaf girl who’d tell her sometimes that she was using the wrong signs… The next sentence was no surprise… the girl came from a #deaf family #languageacquisition

If the NHS is going further down the privatisation route (please no) then this is what we should aspire to… co-operatively owned services that do not take remove money from local economies

I’m in Sweden… just been asked for age verification on Blue Sky and thought this was a great initiative. Turns out it’s in the UK too! bsky.social/about/blog/0... so good being on an ethical platform 🙌

I was in 🇫🇮 for my Churchill Fellowship research project and visited Kuurojen Litto (FAD) and WFD and saw the Finnish Deaf Museum, met some wonderful people. Brilliant to see a whole building dedicated to deaf people, history and interpreter training via Humak. If only we had this in the UK!

Which political parties support public ownership? We Own It have launched a 'Public Ownership Party Scorecard' - ranking each political party on their policies.

Check out this from We Own It.

weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

Happy United Nations International Day of Sign Languages!

from Finland 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮

@signalisecoop.bsky.social