https://youtu.be/_U2x1gyHiQ4 Brighton Festival Launches 2021 Programme with the Theme ‘Care’ • First UK city to launch a multi-arts festival since lockdown • Guest director Lemn Sissay’s Read more [...]

Good morning good afternoon or good evening wherever you are. Today is World  Poetry Day.  The sun is rising in London.  The days are warmer and longer.   In light of the general trend of feeling Read more [...]

I wanted much more from the launch of  "independent review for children's social care' in  England. The dispatch has been duly noted by interested parties such as the multi million pound business The Read more [...]

I’ve shredded and shed-ed. I’ve bagged and boxed. I’ve folded, I’ve filed, and I have filled recycle bags with malignant gangs of documents which have followed me, grunting their disdain, in Read more [...]

Happy New Year.  It has been a strange one but I hope this cheers you up a bit.  January can be the best month of the year because The January Challenge lifts the spirit!

We have curated a creative Read more [...]

This year of all years I expected The Christmas Dinners for Care Leavers, which I set up in 2013, would be cancelled.  There was no way steering groups would  meet through winter,  week in week out, Read more [...]

The original tweet was from Sophia Alexandra Hall on Dec 15th.

https://twitter.com/sophiassocials/status/1338885827804401664

On December 16th (today) it was tweeted by Sophie's friend   David Alfred Read more [...]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: THIS MATTER HAS BEEN RESOLVED WITH PAPERCHASE.

A mother is on the phone looking at a child. The child is  staring at spilt milk on the table and floor.   The mother shouts on the Read more [...]

Each Christmas Dinner for care leavers is organised and run by people in the community where it is taking place. Lawyers, doctors, executive assistants, swimming instructors or unemployed meet to source Read more [...]

In September 2008 I embarked on a voyage to The Arctic with activist organisation Cape Farewell. It was  The Disko Bay Expedition. Over forty artists scientists and musicians were my shipmates. The motley Read more [...]