All details of how the team organised The Christmas Dinner 2013 for care leavers are within this blog. Sally and The Tope Project who did a Christmas Dinner in London in 2012 inspired me to instigate Read more [...]
At the deeply focused Frontline Summer Institute Opening Ceremony last night one of the statements I made on stage to 100 trainee social workers, was “Social services should be so good that parents Read more [...]
Frontlines website states: “Frontlines mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children by recruiting and developing outstanding individuals to be leaders in social work and broader Read more [...]
David Pritchard is a coralent. He’s received the blueprints of the house he intends to build in the future. He commissioned and paid for it himself. Right now he is learning the trade of bricklayer (or Read more [...]
The man with the sign is Francie Coyle. The sun is scorching as we walk to the car. It’s a black Mercedes. The doors have a confident slam and the air conditioning kicks in. Quicker than you can Read more [...]
Two weeks ago I arrived at 10 downing st. The guard looked at my invite and said “wrong day” Today I arrived at Latitude festival and the woman at the performers check-in looked at my artist pass, Read more [...]
Within a few hours of stepping off the plane after 24 hours travelling from South Africa at The National Arts Festival. I’m sat in studio at the BBC in central London. I'm talking to Guy Raz Read more [...]
“Each person has a praise poem unique to their family and each praise poem traces back generation after generation” explained Elinor Sisulu. Elinor is turned towards me and the audience of inspired Read more [...]
The scandal tearing through Britain about missing home office files on alleged child abuse rankles. It's happening to me. Now NSPCC wants to make covering up chlid abuse, by hiding files, a crime. Read more [...]
Let There Be Peace will be tattooed into the skin of the world. Why have small ambitions? It all began on the wall of Manchester University. Presently Let There Be Peace is going up on walls at Huddersfield Read more [...]