Oliver Standing
@oliverstanding.bsky.social
Generalist wandering around the system, tapping my compass. Proud to be comms director for Waythrough, previously at Collective Voice and Adfam - and a dad. Personal account.
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Want to learn Marketing Essentials? Or grow your Digital Marketing skills? 🚀
Then join us in February and March for our FREE Marketing for Charities online training sessions - led by industry experts.
Spaces are limited - book yours now:
https://bit.ly/4q8YuvE
Then join us in February and March for our FREE Marketing for Charities online training sessions - led by industry experts.
Spaces are limited - book yours now:
https://bit.ly/4q8YuvE
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Want to learn Marketing Essentials? Or grow your Digital Marketing skills? 🚀
Then join us in February and March for our FREE Marketing for Charities online training sessions - led by industry experts.
Spaces are limited - book yours now:
https://bit.ly/4q8YuvE
Then join us in February and March for our FREE Marketing for Charities online training sessions - led by industry experts.
Spaces are limited - book yours now:
https://bit.ly/4q8YuvE
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🚨 One week to go!
Join our free online event for practical insights and case studies from expert panellists on achieving neighbourhood health targets.
📅 Wednesday 10 December 2025
🕛 12.00-1.00pm
🤝 Sponsored by NHS Property Services
Register today: https://bit.ly/3JB8lKn
Join our free online event for practical insights and case studies from expert panellists on achieving neighbourhood health targets.
📅 Wednesday 10 December 2025
🕛 12.00-1.00pm
🤝 Sponsored by NHS Property Services
Register today: https://bit.ly/3JB8lKn
Delivering Neighbourhood Health: How Do You Make The Best Use Of Your Estate? | The King's Fund
Explore how to deliver neighbourhood health without major capital spend by making smarter use of NHS estates. Practical insights and real case studies.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨 One week to go!
Join our free online event for practical insights and case studies from expert panellists on achieving neighbourhood health targets.
📅 Wednesday 10 December 2025
🕛 12.00-1.00pm
🤝 Sponsored by NHS Property Services
Register today: https://bit.ly/3JB8lKn
Join our free online event for practical insights and case studies from expert panellists on achieving neighbourhood health targets.
📅 Wednesday 10 December 2025
🕛 12.00-1.00pm
🤝 Sponsored by NHS Property Services
Register today: https://bit.ly/3JB8lKn
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With less than a week to go until Rachel Reeves delivers her 2025 budget, the IfG public finances team have set out six key questions they will be looking for the chancellor to answer - from fiscal and tax strategies to cost of living www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
Rachel Reeves’s budget 2025: The IfG’s six things to look out for | Institute for Government
What can we expect from the chancellor’s second budget?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
With less than a week to go until Rachel Reeves delivers her 2025 budget, the IfG public finances team have set out six key questions they will be looking for the chancellor to answer - from fiscal and tax strategies to cost of living www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
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How you talk about your cause matters 🖼️
Join our FREE 'What is framing?' webinar on Thursday 20 November to learn how values and framing influence how people think, feel and act and how to apply them to your charity’s comms.
Sign up here:
https://bit.ly/49zXElN
Join our FREE 'What is framing?' webinar on Thursday 20 November to learn how values and framing influence how people think, feel and act and how to apply them to your charity’s comms.
Sign up here:
https://bit.ly/49zXElN
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How you talk about your cause matters 🖼️
Join our FREE 'What is framing?' webinar on Thursday 20 November to learn how values and framing influence how people think, feel and act and how to apply them to your charity’s comms.
Sign up here:
https://bit.ly/49zXElN
Join our FREE 'What is framing?' webinar on Thursday 20 November to learn how values and framing influence how people think, feel and act and how to apply them to your charity’s comms.
Sign up here:
https://bit.ly/49zXElN
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For #TrusteesWeek, today we hear from Dave Marsh, Executive Director of IT and Digital, and Anna Headley, Executive Director of Clinical, Quality, and Performance, on the difference our Waythrough Trustees have made to them. 🩷
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
For #TrusteesWeek, today we hear from Dave Marsh, Executive Director of IT and Digital, and Anna Headley, Executive Director of Clinical, Quality, and Performance, on the difference our Waythrough Trustees have made to them. 🩷
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The Collective Voice Children and Young People Forum responded to the recent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs report on #prevention, including reflecting on what is needed to achieve the recommendations. www.collectivevoice.org.uk/cv-response/...
Collective Voice CYP Forum responds to ACMD drug prevention report - Collective Voice
The report provides an excellent overview of the current drug prevention landscape in the UK. It’s comprehensive, evidence-led, and crucially draws operational insights from those currently delivering...
www.collectivevoice.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Collective Voice Children and Young People Forum responded to the recent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs report on #prevention, including reflecting on what is needed to achieve the recommendations. www.collectivevoice.org.uk/cv-response/...
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The Big Butterfly Count is on!
By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help: buff.ly/Juy2MCp
Photo: Paul Harris
By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help: buff.ly/Juy2MCp
Photo: Paul Harris
July 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Big Butterfly Count is on!
By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help: buff.ly/Juy2MCp
Photo: Paul Harris
By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help: buff.ly/Juy2MCp
Photo: Paul Harris
Where there's life there's hope.
July 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Where there's life there's hope.
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🧵 There's been lots of talk about the UK govt struggling to reform the state. Do they do DOGE-lite? Is the answer devolution? How do we get beyond re-arranging the machinery of government? In this post I share seven ways to make bureaucracy less sclerotic. They are: ...
How do we save bureaucracy from itself? A new long-read from me with seven practical examples of techniques we can use to make big institutions less sclerotic.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
How to save bureaucracy from itself
Seven ways to make big institutions less sclerotic
medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🧵 There's been lots of talk about the UK govt struggling to reform the state. Do they do DOGE-lite? Is the answer devolution? How do we get beyond re-arranging the machinery of government? In this post I share seven ways to make bureaucracy less sclerotic. They are: ...
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In England, deaths from drinking are at a record high, having risen substantially since the pandemic.
Our #QualityWatch blog examines the underlying trend - today's heavy drinkers tend to be older and face wider health risks and barriers to treatment.
Read the blog: buff.ly/cPcYKAj
Our #QualityWatch blog examines the underlying trend - today's heavy drinkers tend to be older and face wider health risks and barriers to treatment.
Read the blog: buff.ly/cPcYKAj
June 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In England, deaths from drinking are at a record high, having risen substantially since the pandemic.
Our #QualityWatch blog examines the underlying trend - today's heavy drinkers tend to be older and face wider health risks and barriers to treatment.
Read the blog: buff.ly/cPcYKAj
Our #QualityWatch blog examines the underlying trend - today's heavy drinkers tend to be older and face wider health risks and barriers to treatment.
Read the blog: buff.ly/cPcYKAj
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This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Our favourite peony came out or yesterday and it's a wonder
May 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Our favourite peony came out or yesterday and it's a wonder
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We love finding gems in our archive!
This is from the 1980s showing off some new promotional merch we'd made.
It even includes a VHS about the service...
This is from the 1980s showing off some new promotional merch we'd made.
It even includes a VHS about the service...
May 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We love finding gems in our archive!
This is from the 1980s showing off some new promotional merch we'd made.
It even includes a VHS about the service...
This is from the 1980s showing off some new promotional merch we'd made.
It even includes a VHS about the service...
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✨New webinar✨
Exploring stigma in LGBTQIA+ communities around substance use.
🗓 Thurs 5 June, 12:30–2pm
🎟️ Free + online: zurl.co/GgDeU
Hear from experts with lived + professional experience. Part two coming soon!
Exploring stigma in LGBTQIA+ communities around substance use.
🗓 Thurs 5 June, 12:30–2pm
🎟️ Free + online: zurl.co/GgDeU
Hear from experts with lived + professional experience. Part two coming soon!
May 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
✨New webinar✨
Exploring stigma in LGBTQIA+ communities around substance use.
🗓 Thurs 5 June, 12:30–2pm
🎟️ Free + online: zurl.co/GgDeU
Hear from experts with lived + professional experience. Part two coming soon!
Exploring stigma in LGBTQIA+ communities around substance use.
🗓 Thurs 5 June, 12:30–2pm
🎟️ Free + online: zurl.co/GgDeU
Hear from experts with lived + professional experience. Part two coming soon!
Recovery street fridge, Milan.
April 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Recovery street fridge, Milan.
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We're working with the Addiction Healthcare Goals team in the Office for Life Sciences to maximise the impact of research on #addiction treatment. We've written a brief report based on a roundtable with staff on improving career pathways. Read more here: www.collectivevoice.org.uk/blog/improvi...
Improving research career opportunities in the field of substance use treatment - Collective Voice
The system we work in lacks incentives to engage in research, but we can learn from other professions and combine practice and research work within the same career path. Read the full report (pdf) If ...
www.collectivevoice.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We're working with the Addiction Healthcare Goals team in the Office for Life Sciences to maximise the impact of research on #addiction treatment. We've written a brief report based on a roundtable with staff on improving career pathways. Read more here: www.collectivevoice.org.uk/blog/improvi...
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We’re looking for a senior comms professional who is seeking a new challenge to come and join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social as our new Director of Comms. £100k. Amazing varied portfolio including external affairs, press, events and more
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
April 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
We’re looking for a senior comms professional who is seeking a new challenge to come and join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social as our new Director of Comms. £100k. Amazing varied portfolio including external affairs, press, events and more
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
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We're looking for submissions to a special issue on the role of creative health in public health in our journal, Perspectives in Public Health, with @ncch.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.
Find out more and submit your article by 1 September 2025 ✍️👇
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Find out more and submit your article by 1 September 2025 ✍️👇
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RSPH | Perspectives in Public Health
Perspectives in Public Health is the RSPH bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal and available to all RSPH members
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April 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We're looking for submissions to a special issue on the role of creative health in public health in our journal, Perspectives in Public Health, with @ncch.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.
Find out more and submit your article by 1 September 2025 ✍️👇
ow.ly/cugK50VwxqJ
Find out more and submit your article by 1 September 2025 ✍️👇
ow.ly/cugK50VwxqJ
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The FPH, @roysocmed.bsky.social, @rsph.bsky.social & @adphuk.bsky.social are hosting a conference to examine links between poverty and health, share best practice and identify solutions.
Main sessions on:
- Child poverty
- Housing crisis
- NHS and prevention agenda
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Main sessions on:
- Child poverty
- Housing crisis
- NHS and prevention agenda
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Poverty and public health: taking local action
The Royal Society of Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Association of Directors of Public Health, and Royal Society for Public Health are co-hosting this conference addressing poverty in the UK to e...
www.fph.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The FPH, @roysocmed.bsky.social, @rsph.bsky.social & @adphuk.bsky.social are hosting a conference to examine links between poverty and health, share best practice and identify solutions.
Main sessions on:
- Child poverty
- Housing crisis
- NHS and prevention agenda
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Main sessions on:
- Child poverty
- Housing crisis
- NHS and prevention agenda
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
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One week to go until our Spring Statement analysis event!
Thursday 27 March | 10:30 – 12:00 | Online
📊 Sign up here for our presentations and analysis of the Chancellor's announcements the morning after the Spring Statement:
Thursday 27 March | 10:30 – 12:00 | Online
📊 Sign up here for our presentations and analysis of the Chancellor's announcements the morning after the Spring Statement:
Spring Statement 2025: IFS analysis | Institute for Fiscal Studies
At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Statement.
ifs.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One week to go until our Spring Statement analysis event!
Thursday 27 March | 10:30 – 12:00 | Online
📊 Sign up here for our presentations and analysis of the Chancellor's announcements the morning after the Spring Statement:
Thursday 27 March | 10:30 – 12:00 | Online
📊 Sign up here for our presentations and analysis of the Chancellor's announcements the morning after the Spring Statement:
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The reshaping of NHS national bodies has only just started. How will it finish?
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The reshaping of NHS national bodies has only just started. How will it finish?
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
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NEW: Over half of the rise in disability benefit claims since the pandemic comes from those whose main condition is a mental health problem.
THREAD on our new report with evidence of a worsening of mental health since the pandemic funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social & @healthfoundation.bsky.social: [1/7]
THREAD on our new report with evidence of a worsening of mental health since the pandemic funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social & @healthfoundation.bsky.social: [1/7]
March 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
NEW: Over half of the rise in disability benefit claims since the pandemic comes from those whose main condition is a mental health problem.
THREAD on our new report with evidence of a worsening of mental health since the pandemic funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social & @healthfoundation.bsky.social: [1/7]
THREAD on our new report with evidence of a worsening of mental health since the pandemic funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social & @healthfoundation.bsky.social: [1/7]
Sharing a great role for visibility. I'd apply for this partnership and engagement role in a parallel life!
We're hiring two key leadership roles at New Local!
🌠 Director of Partnerships & Engagement – Lead our membership, events & comms.
🌠 Director of Practice & Programmes – Drive impact in consultancy, research & policy.
💰 £80K | ⏳ Apply by 14 April, 9am → www.newlocal.org.uk/about/jobs/
🌠 Director of Partnerships & Engagement – Lead our membership, events & comms.
🌠 Director of Practice & Programmes – Drive impact in consultancy, research & policy.
💰 £80K | ⏳ Apply by 14 April, 9am → www.newlocal.org.uk/about/jobs/
Jobs - New Local
Find the latest job vacancies at New Local, a think tank and network with a mission to unlock community power.
www.newlocal.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sharing a great role for visibility. I'd apply for this partnership and engagement role in a parallel life!
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These proposed cuts expose everything wrong with UK economic policy.
Made-up fiscal rules and the undervaluing of public services and investment leave us in a doom-loop of never-ending austerity and worsening living standards. 1/4
Made-up fiscal rules and the undervaluing of public services and investment leave us in a doom-loop of never-ending austerity and worsening living standards. 1/4
NEW: Labour has been accused of “breaking another election promise” after it emerged that Rachel Reeves is planning billions in spending cuts
Labour accused of 'total betrayal' over plans for billions of pounds of welfare cuts
www.thenational.scot
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
These proposed cuts expose everything wrong with UK economic policy.
Made-up fiscal rules and the undervaluing of public services and investment leave us in a doom-loop of never-ending austerity and worsening living standards. 1/4
Made-up fiscal rules and the undervaluing of public services and investment leave us in a doom-loop of never-ending austerity and worsening living standards. 1/4