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Vicki Purewal
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Earthling. Curious, connector, dreamer, doer. Working with lots of great people on projects, funds, programmes and new ways of working that create kinder, more equitable and sustainable futures.
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⌛️Applications for our 2025 Spokesperson Programme are closing this Friday! ⌛️

If you are using your lived experience to raise awareness of social injustice & are advocating for others, apply to our Spokesperson Leadership Programme.✨

Find out more here: www.sounddelivery.org.uk/spokesperson...
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Sounddelivery Media’s unique leadership programme aims to diversify the voices we hear in the media and make it more representative of the society we live in. This programme tackles the barriers that ...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Nice to hear the Trustee's pride in the people & organisations @ufitrust.bsky.social have funded, & in the practical difference the funded work makes to individuals #WeekOfVocTech
March 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Week of VocTech is back next month, featuring a free programme of in-person and online events and activities 📢

📆 17 - 21 March 2025
🎟️ Take a look at the programme of activity and register your interest: weekofvoctech.co.uk/events

#WeekOfVocTech #GetAdultsLearning
February 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Interesting, useful thread & questions about how a 'test & learn' approach can work best in practice in government & how that's shared publicly.
The test here is a political one. Pilots are not created to scale, they're created to test a hypothesis and generate learning. Stopping them when they fail is good, and good to see this discipline being applied outside of the new "digital centre". Three things though:
AI described in DWP’s latest annual report as examples of how it had “successfully tested multiple generative AI proofs of concept” has now been dropped. Tech is no magic bullet in public services
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Extreme wealth threatens our democracy, our planet, and our society as we know it.

Over 370 millionaires and billionaires have a message for the world leaders at Davos: draw the line and tax us, the super rich, to save the world.

wemustdrawtheline.org
We Must Draw The Line
wemustdrawtheline.org
January 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🐝 Thank you to the MPs who support the Climate and Nature Bill, the joined-up legislation we need to restore nature and tackle the climate crisis.

🗳️ It’s time to turn your words into action—and vote for the
#CANBill at its Second Reading on 24 January.

👉 zerohour.uk
Thank you to the MPs who support the Climate and Nature Bill
YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill
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January 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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CAMPAIGN WIN! Since our launch, we’ve campaigned for a Community Right to Buy. Today, the Government has committed to implementing this policy. 🥳

Well done to everyone involved in the campaign. This is the beginning of a community power moment!
www.right-here.org/devolution-w...
December 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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“We can’t tackle attendance if we don’t tackle poverty”

In a country as wealthy as ours no child or their family should be going without the essentials. No Government wishing to reduce school absence can ignore the role that poverty plays in driving it www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...
Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Mea...
Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...
www.centreforyounglives.org.uk
December 10, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Lots of useful thoughts here on how to fund new economy exploration, projects, organisations and collaborations.
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Activate 25 @ufitrust.bsky.social grant call opens 6 Jan to support development of new digital tools & approaches to reach learners furthest from opportunity & with potential to transform learning for work. Info online now, including eligibility checker and workshop dates: ufi.co.uk/grant-fundin...
Ufi VocTech Activate grant fund
Grants of £30,000 to £60,000 for new ideas using tech to support skills for work.
ufi.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Great to see @right-here.bsky.social right here :)
Hello BlueSky 👋

We are We're Right Here, the campaign for community power.

Nice to meet you all. ⛅
November 28, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
November 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM
This is interesting. Looking forward to seeing where it goes next.
⏳ Are we allowing enough time and resources for #SystemsChange?

Our Insights report shows the average #PlaceBased project runs 5.3 years, with #funding often under £1M. To drive true impact, longer commitments & more resources may be needed.

Read More: https://buff.ly/4ekP09L
November 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM
"they started feeling confident and felt like they are important citizens and that their voices are valid in contributing to safer neighbourhoods in cities" <3
On the blog today, find out more about the brilliant Girls Make the City project in Cape Town, empowering teenage girls to create urban spaces which work for them. makespaceforgirls.co.uk/blog/girls-m...
November 21, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Sheila McKechnie Award nominations are open - "for those who have made change happen most effectively, creatively, and courageously" smk.org.uk/what-we-do/c... h/t @sounddeliverymedia.bsky.social
Award Nominees | Sheila McKechnie Foundation | SMK
There are ten amazing categories for this year's Awards. See whose been nominated.
smk.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM