Friendship group affiliated to HVN

Hastings commons – a community land trust – you can buy a share for a pound

Black Thrive

Black minds

Z2K – fighting poverty

Homelessness + renter organisations

London community land trust

Awaab’s law - to prevent any more children dying from damp and mouldy social housing - PETITION

Action on empty homes

In London – long term empty homes have nearly doubled since 2016

Housing first England

Housing First news: research strengthens case for national Housing First roll-out

Michelle – housing first

Jade is a writer

Housing First in England – beyond a pilot?

Housing First for Women: valuable lessons

Scotland's Housing First Pathfinder evaluation

Suicide Prevention and Postvention

HF4 Youth

Groundswell

Pavement magazine

Homeshare

Streetlink

Homeless link

New fidelity framework events & videos; advocating for Housing First funding

Generation rent

The third biggest driver of homelessness in England- domestic abuse

Shelter

Scrap the cap

End wealth supremacy - Universal basic income - community land trusts - would solve this issue ? - Wendy

1.3 million households on the waiting list for a social home – 18 June 2024

In England, 3,898 people sleep rough on a given night – 23 May 2024

This morning 145800 children in England woke up homeless – 10 May 2024

5351 long term empty homes in Liverpool – May 2024

We published a report about the impact of homelessness on children's education

In this report, we found that half (49%) of teachers in England work with children who are homeless –February 2024

We could end this with people power – community land trusts – people assemblies – Wendy

The number of children living in temporary accommodation reached another record high this month: 142,490 children without a home. This is an increase of 3,560 children in just three months

March 2024

did you know that three-quarters of people in temporary accommodation report living in poor conditions?-October 2024

There are currently over 150,000 children in temporary accommodation in England – November 2024

On any given night in England, 3,989 people are sleeping rough. This figure has risen by 27% in the last year and has doubled since 2010 – November 2024

159,000 children are homeless this Christmas – December 2024

Museum of homelessness

1474 homeless people died in 2023 in UK

Project 17

Art + homelessness international

London Renters Union

1 February 2025

14 December

Jaas Athwal must resign

They get richer, we get sicker: report your disrepair!

Renters reform coalition

Single Homelessness Project

Women's homelessness

StMungo’s

Homelessness charities call for long-term plan and say 18% increase to 4,780 people ‘should incense us all’

Cardboard citizen

Creative jobs

more than one story

UPDATE

Spear

Latest reports show 4,389 people slept rough in London between October and December 2023

a shocking 23% year-on-year increase

Glassdoor

The passage

New ground cohousing

Creative + nature + advocacy

The Poetry Society

Dragon Café

sometimes Dragon cafe runs laughing therapy sessions

Garden organic

Groundwork

Re: CREATE psychiatry

Living with Suicide

meet me where I am

Story Futures – update

Me and You and a Global Pandemic

Medicating Me: Personal Impressions of Psychiatric Medication

Speakeasy advocacy

Grace advocacy

Cambridge House

Advocacy focus

The Advocacy Project

National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTI)

Advocacy Charter

Advocacy review

A review of advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals

Valuing Community Led Support

strength based explained

Mental health - a growing public health priority and human rights imperative

Seni’s Law – Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018

People organised + information

Connected Kingston

help with food

FREE EVENTS ON DECEMBER

Wildflower Alliance

Peer Respite Advocacy Week & Celebration!!

"How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us"

hearing voices family + friends group

The First LGBTQIA+ Peer Respite in the Country

The Hearing Voices Approach - Get Involved

A Statement on Israel and Palestine + Support Gatherings

Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice

Celebrating Black History Month with the Black Movement Leaders Project

Peer respite can break the cycle of hospitalisation +

Votes on IOC & Peer Respite are Coming Soon!!

Mad in the Family Monthly Newsletter

Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles

Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm

Critical psychiatry network

Council for evidence based psychiatry

Mad in America

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America - the Biopsychosocial Model and Psychiatric History

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother

We should listen to our emotional pain

Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)

Martin Harrow

In addition, global outcome for the group of patients with schizophrenia who were on antipsychotics was

compared with the off- medication schizophrenia patients with similar prognostic status

Starting with the 45-year follow-up and extending to the 15- year follow-up

the off-medication subgroup tended to show better global outcomes at each follow up

I conclude that patients with schizophrenia not on antipsychotic medication for a long

period of time have significantly better global functioning than those on antipsychotics

Suman Fernando’s book Institutional racism in psychiatry + clinical psychology

Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities: Interview with Philosopher Hanna Pickard

Reason and Madness: How Psychiatry Marginalizes Those Who Contradict Western Norms

Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health

How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn

Research Reveals Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Rape Culture

Why are policies which affect so many lives based on such bad research ?

Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Is Madness an Evolved Signal?

The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

Exercise Leads to Best Outcomes for Depression

Mood Disorder Handbooks Perpetuate Psychiatric Myths, Present Barriers to Systemic Thinking

Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Answers from Outside of Academia: Revealing Community-Based Rehabilitation in the Global South

From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control

Pharma Pushed “Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis” to Boost Drug Sales, Researchers Report

More Psychologists, More Problems? The Paradox of Mental Health Workforce Expansion

Demedicalizing Depression: An Interview with Milutin Kostić

Many Results in Psychology and Medicine Are False Positives

Decolonizing Psychology Requires a Critical Psychology of Caste

Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years

Can Psychiatric Units Function Without Restraints? Italy Says Yes

Case Study Demonstrates How Racism Drives the Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia

New Study Exposes the Trauma of Involuntary Psychiatric Detention

Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Doctors Paid to Market Drugs on Social Media

ECT Causes Deadly Heart Problems

Greater role for Experts by Experience in the dialogue on Euthanasia in cases of psychological suffering is desired

Deep rooted ablism in Mental Healthcare

Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott

Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

By a doctor

study finds psychiatric hospitalization erodes “service user” dignity

What It’s Really Like Inside a Psychiatric Ward

By a former police person

The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon

Open Dialogue Training in NHS Reveals Transformative Potential, Yet Faces Cultural Resistance

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

Antidepressant Withdrawal Commonly Misdiagnosed as “Mental Illness”

Antidepressants cause cardiovascular disease

Is Pediatric Bipolar an Epidemic in the U.S. or a Result of Pharma Influence?

Digital Mental Health Tools May Reinforce Global Inequalities, Colonialism

From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice

Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Madness, Utopia and Revolt: An Interview With Sasha Warren

Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Philosopher Links Depression to the Distortions of Global Capitalism

UN’s Mental Health Goals Off Track as Social Factors Remain Unaddressed, Study Shows

Hearing Voices Groups Provide Meaning Through Peer Support

The anatomy of anxiety : an interview with Ellen Vora

The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

“What matters to you ?” an antidote to “what’s wrong” and “what happened”

The core error of psychiatry and psychology : certainty about “consensus reality”

Study reveals deep-rooted ableism in Mental Health care

Service users report Psychiatric professionals as the least helpful factor in quitting antipsychotics

Study calls for a new approach to depression focused on social + cultural contexts

Peer reviewers received over $1 billion in industry funding

The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health

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Hearing voices network (HVN)

London hearing voices network – update

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Any thoughts welcome - please contact lhvn@mindincamden.org.uk

Voice collective - update

Lisa hears voices

Samaritans

CAPE

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National SCN Community Forum

London SCN

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Social Prescribing Network

Social prescribing – what matters to you …

balancing your needs with the care of others

including beyond the pill

Newsletter

Self- development

Our perspective on just about everything comes from the psychological cage we’ve been conditioned to live in

A cage created by

A difficult or disappointing experience

A privileged or sheltered life

Social influence

Pop-culture and mass-media stereotyping

And the list goes on

Gradually, unbeknownst to us, our cage - our conditioning - drains our mental energy, leaving us vulnerable to bad decision making

When we were young, we saw the world through simple, hopeful eyes

We knew what we wanted and we had no biases or concealed agendas

We liked people who smiled

We avoided people who frowned

We ate when we were hungry, drank when we were thirsty, and slept when we were tired

As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences

At some point we began to hesitate and question our instincts

Healing in Your Relationships

If you don’t allow yourself to move past what happened, what was said, what was felt, you will look at your present and future through that same dirty lens, and nothing will be able to focus your foggy judgment

Always be kinder than necessary

Forgive yourself for the bad decisions you made, for the times you lacked clarity, for the choices that hurt others and yourself

Some chapters in our lives have to close without closure

Be careful not to dehumanize people you disagree with

Being kind to someone you dislike doesn’t mean you’re fake

People tend to be more thoughtful and kinder when they have found a little happiness and peace of mind

How can I respond from a place of clarity and strength,

rather than continuing to react in anger and frustration to the painful experiences I've been forced to live through

Think about that question for a moment

Read it again, and sit with it

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, pause for a few seconds, take a few deep breaths, and make space for a healthy change of state—for something new to enter

It's time to consciously redirect your focus by taking it away from something unchangeable that drags you down, and instead zero it in on something small and actionable that moves you forward in the present moment

4 Hard Choices that Make You Happier in the Long Run

You can choose to be present when it would be easier to pick up your phone

You can choose to do a workout when it would be more comfortable to sit around

You can choose to create something special when it would be quicker to consume something mediocre

You can choose to invest in yourself when it would take less effort to procrastinate

Let Your Inner Child Out
Sometimes the grown up in you needs a break

So, every now and then, release your inner child and enjoy some carefree fun

See the world with childlike wonder

Ask lots of questions

Revisit one of your favourite childhood books or movies

How will you let your inner child come out to play

All You Need Is Less

If you're wanting more love, more peace, more meaning, more focus, you'll probably find that all you need is, less

Less expectations, less talk, less buying, less thinking, less stuff, less stress…

Are you ready for less

Involving Others in Decisions

How often do you involve others in the decision-making process

It makes sense to include those who are impacted by the decisions,

or those who will implement those decision

It increases their engagement and responsibility,

and having various perspectives can only lead to better outcomes

But involving others in decision-making takes time and resources

How do you figure out when to Involve others in the decision making, and when not to

Nourish with Happiness

Apparently, there is no nourishment like happiness

So are you nourishing yourself with happiness

Here are 3 ways to nourish yourself with happiness, everyday:

1) Feed yourself a dose of laughter (a good joke or a funny video clip)

2) Engage in one activity that makes you happy (gardening or cooking)

3) Create space to feel happy (a dose of gratitude or meditation)

Be Present to Prevent Stress

Whenever you find yourself stressing about getting things done or what’s going to happen

try this: be present

Firstly, become present to your emotions

your stress

and then, become present to what you’re doing and where you are

Be present and you may find that it helps you to feel less stressed

more relaxed

and be more effective and productive

Be more present and in the long term, you'll increase your stress resilience, and may even prevent feeling stressed

Growing through Life

Are you just going through life or are you growing through life

If you feel like you’re just going through the routine of life, nothing probably seems exciting

Why not grow through what you go through

Grow through life, and you'll most likely find learning and excitement even in the routine

Dreams Need Courage

No matter how much you’ve achieved or accomplished,

there’s always much more to explore

So have the courage to dream

Have the courage to define your dream clearly,

to go beyond any obstacles and reach for your dream,

even when you can't see what lies ahead

Dream and have the courage to make life an adventure worth exploring

Walk in Someone's Shoes

You know the saying about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes before judging them

Next time someone's being difficult, leave your opinions, assumptions and emotions aside for just a couple of minutes

Then, figuratively walk in their shoes, that is, try to see things from their perspective to understand where they're coming from

Even if we walk a mile in someone’s shoes,

we still can't judge them because we can never really know the reasoning behind someone's actions or what it’s like to be that person

So, just try to understand others as much as you can

The Three Questions

When you're confused and unsure about a decision, ask yourself three questions:

Who am I?

What is important to me?

What is my purpose?

The answers that arise will most probably lead you to clarity

Point of Light

If you're feeling low in energy, low in mood, try this simple meditation:

Bring your attention up through your body to a point in the middle of the forehead,

just above and behind the eyes, behind the mind

Begin to experience yourself as a point of concentrated energy,

a spark of light, full of radiance and positive energy

Feeling good, feeling re-energised, you’re ready to move on to whatever's next

Peace of Mind

Peace of mind comes not from wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are

For your peace of mind, can you let go of what you want others to do or how you want them to be?

Can you accept everyone as they are?

Peace Takeaway

Sometimes it seems as if someone or something can so easily take away our peace

But actually, no one and nothing can take away our peace because peace is our natural state of being

Next time it feels like someone or something has taken away your peace, understand that you just got pulled away from your peace

Then, pull your attention away from everything else and return back to your natural state of peace

The Seed of Life

We are like a tree

the seed is the essence of who we are

our life-force

and our branches represent work, family, friends, health, dreams, ambitions

When the seed is vibrant, our life-force pulses through each branch to every single leaf

So, extend your branches in a joyful gesture and celebrate life

And when you feel overwhelmed by it all, concentrate on the seed and you’ll revitalise everything

What Are You Focusing On?

If you’re feeling anxious, ask yourself how much you are focusing on things that are outside your control

Every time you start focusing on what’s outside your control

gently bring your focus back to what is within your control

Do this and you'll start to feel less anxiety and more peace, and increase your capacity to deal with things

A therapist’s guide to self-care

Self-care is the practice of taking action to improve your health

We can do this regularly or just from time to time, but it’s important to turn this abstract concept into a concrete goal

I've written a blog on the ‘6 domains of self-care’, including my top tips on how to give yourself a little love

Physical self-care

This is about taking care of our physical body and getting back to basics

Eat regularly and in a way that nourishes your body

Exercise regularly

Boost your sleep

Psychological self-care

We all know it is important to take care of our mind

This might include seeing mental health professionals or simply doing things to help us recharge

Turn off phone notifications

Keep scheduled therapy appointments

Take time for reflection

Emotional self-care

This involves your relationship with yourself

Check in with your feelings and see how you’re doing

Keep a journal

Vent your frustrations

Engage in opportunities to create happiness

Physiotherapist – Working from home: 4 health hacks

Plump it up

Make your chair more ergonomic

Add cushions and a foot rest to take care of your lower back

Go for a raise

Try shaking up your desk design

Raising your laptop will help to protect your posture

Break it down

Take micro-breaks

Regular movement helps prevent muscular pains

Stretch yourself

That's it

Stretch

Stretching at your desk will reduce the risk of muscle strain

3 simple techniques to help improve your breathing

Breathing control

This means just breathing easily, using the least effort

It helps you to relax

Place your hand on your tummy, below your ribs

Feel your tummy rise and fall as you breathe gently through your nose

Let go of any tension, just breathe as you need to

Deep breathing

This helps to fill the lower areas of your lungs

Take a long, slow deep breath in

At the end of the breath in, hold the air for 2 to 3 seconds before letting the air out gently

Try to keep your shoulders relaxed

Repeat for 3 or 4 deep breaths

Huffing

This is a way of clearing mucus from your lungs

Take a breath in and then breathe it out quickly through your mouth, as if trying to mist up a mirror

Once any mucus has moved upwards, you should find it easier to cough it out But there is no need to try and force up mucus

Always finish with more relaxed breathing control (exercise 1) after the huffing exercise

A to Zzz our top tips for a good night's sleep

Be consistent

Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day – and avoid napping throughout the day, if possible

Create the right environment

When it is time for sleep, make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark and cool

(The NHS recommends 18-24C for adults and 16-20C for children)

Have a change of scene

If you find yourself unable to fall asleep, get out of bed and do something relaxing elsewhere
Try reading or drinking some non-caffeinated herbal tea, and stay off social media and news sites, which can often be

Action for Happiness

10 December

Do good December

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Happy Place

Self management UK

Oxford Mindfulness Centre

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newsletter - including events

Angel + Marc

Self-Care Forum

Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance

Economics of happiness – local futures

Beyond Conspiracy: Framing Meaningful Activism

Gabor Maté supports the localization movement

Dr Gabor Maté on Mental Health and Localization

the corporation

the new corporation

Vandana – the power of people

Small, local and productive

Mental health crisis : blame the system, not the individual – Eva Henje

The power of local

Community self-reliance + genuine happiness

Local action for systemic healing

Big picture activist

Intersectionality

Mencap

Commitment to modernise Mental Health Act in Kings Speech – JULY 2024

"I have three alarm clocks...!" ⏰

Costs NHS £534 million per year - £18 million per month !

Life in a mental health unit when you shouldn't be there – 2:42 minutes

How to protect yourself from scams - EASY READ

Get help with money + energy bills

The world’s 1st TV station run for + by people with “learning disability”

SCOPE

Our Disability Energy Support service

Right to Ride: new travel guide

£1,010 price tag for disabled households

We'll be campaigning for Keir Starmer's new Government to:

tackle the extra costs of disability

transform attitudes to disability

make sure that those of us who want to work get the right support to do so

fix our failing benefits system

Brainkind

RNIB

Alzeimer's society

‘I want to go home’ - What to say to someone with dementia in care

Ken’s tips

dementia UK

Macmillian

Prostate cancer UK

check your risk in 30 seconds

Dramatize

Share community

VITAL projects

Changing our lives

Challenging behaviour foundation

Camerados

Find a public living room near you

Learning disability England

Disabled Activists Deliver Book Exposing Deaths At Hands of DWP To Every member of parliament

Disability Rights UK

PM Must Stop Scapegoating Disabled People For Government Policy Failures

Is James Davies book – SEDATED relevant here ? Universal basic income now ! - Wendy

Social Security System "sanctions and demonises Disabled People" - DR UK responds to Employment Inquiry

Oppose The Shocking Government Bill Violating Privacy By Monitoring Benefits Claimant's Bank Accounts

UK government faces UN for violation of disability rights

New Report Finds People Struggle To Share Experiences of Health and Social Care

1.6 Million Disabled Pensioners Set To Lose Winter Fuel Payments

Disability News Service

Equality Network

TRANS CONFERENCE +

MND Association

We want :

Accessible homes
Access to treatments
Improving cost of living support
Sustainable social care
Support MND Carers

Neurological alliance

Dyslexia Foundation

National autistic society

The Mental Health system is broken

reforms to the Mental Health Act

action-attainment – beyond autism

Land + other views

Humanists UK

Five ways religion intrudes on politics

Sacred or secular: rethinking public investment in church preservation

Education Policy Institute: disadvantaged pupils ‘less likely to be admitted’ to faith schools

The first UK-based dedicated helpline for people leaving high-control religions

From pulpit to parliament: religious threats to legal abortion

Extremism

American evangelist ‘dark money’ infiltrating UK politics

MILLIONS OF POUNDS SPENT BY CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO EVANGELISE SCHOOLCHILDREN

CONCERN FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS AS FIRST SIKH ‘COURT’ ESTABLISHED

Choose human rights – not blasphemy laws

Remove Bishops from house of Lords

Abolish house of lords replace with people’s assembly ? - Wendy

One life - live it well

Land justice UK – Land and Food

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back

Homes for us

Global feedback

A win in the fight for land rights – PETITION

Land worker’s alliance

Human rights

Fawcett Society

Fabian Society

The British Institute of Human Rights

Katrin

human rights – EASY READ

our co-produced resources

What is a human rights approach ?

Human rights action plan

Just Fair

Standing up for our everyday rights ⭐

Human rights videos

Everyday rights - get involved in our call for evidence

How people have used human rights in practise

Equality + human rights commission

Fly the flag for human rights

Refugee action

Why can’t they stay in France ?

the role of the past in today’s racism against refugees

Companies including Serco make millions from refugees’ misery in the UK’s for-profit asylum system

We need to talk about racism within the asylum system

video - history

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

Our manifesto calls for 5 key things:

Rights – Everyone should be able to thrive, no matter where we’re from
Safety – We must welcome people who seek sanctuary on our shores
Dignity – We all deserve to live with dignity and feel safe in our homes and workplaces
Justice – We should all be able to defend our rights and hold the government accountable
Community – We all deserve to find care and belonging in our communities

Migrants organised- We keep each other safe!

Defiance:fighting the far right

Healing + grounding

Medact

Patients not passports

Freedom from torture

Horticultural therapy

Bread group

Safe passage

Detention Action

WHICH - Food prices increasing

Reduce your energy bills

Can you spot AI deep fake – QUIZ

Insurance rip - off

Third sector + campaigning

Third Sector – Governance bulletin

Latest accounts for the London Clinic show that the highest earner, who is not identified, received a salary package of between £510,000 and £520,000 in 2020

This is a charity – Wendy

Fifth former Oxfam GB staffer sanctioned after DRC sexual misconduct investigation

King Charles's charity warned over working in Bahrain

Church of England announces £100m fund after slavery links

Charity 'won't be silenced' by Israel blacklisting

Average CEO pay at large charities rises to £175,000, survey shows

Christian charity pledges £7m in reparation payments over its past links to slavery

Charity for single parents adopts four-day week

Paul Streets: Hope and optimism in Great Yarmouth

IPPR

UPDATE

Healthy places, prosperous lives

4,100 children are sent home from school every day – AUGUST 2024

Transforming asylum accommodation

Carnegie Trust

including kindness in public services

NAVCA

Fusebox - Kingston

Fast minds – Kingston

Staywell - Kingston

kick it – stop smoking – kingston

Man + boy

well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education

EVENTS TO MARCH 2025

Silverfit Kingston - over 45’s Fitness Sessions

contact jennifer@silverfit.org.uk

Kingston Voluntary Action (KVA)

Problem Tree planning tool

4 in 10 children in London live in poverty
1 in 4 are living in poverty after housing costs

Source: London’s poverty profile 2021

Sheila McKechnie Foundation

100 Campaigns that Changed the World podcast

Free campaign tools

The Scottish government ‘s consultation well-being + sustainable development bill

Change unfolding

The resilient campaigner

Change. Be as clear as you can about the change you want to see

Collaboration. Consider how you can work with others

Capacity. What resources do you have, and what other resources will you need

Context. Research and understand the wider environment

LawWorks

Law for change

Green + Black cross

Support + more ideas

Amnesty International

Israel Repeatedly Committed War Crimes With US Weapons

Tlaib: Congress “Can No Longer Deny” Israeli Genocide After Amnesty Report

Belarus

Patient safety learning

Mental illness is a lie which causes untold damage

hospital safety for diabetes patients, institutional misogyny, climate change, and more…

Whistleblowing, patient feedback, visiting restrictions + events…

Latest hub highlights: Misogyny, crosswords, Ockenden…

Mind the implementation gap, vaccination programmes, mesh removal

Patients died after catalogue of errors by Priory mental health chain

Hundreds of thousands more women than men prescribed powerful anti-anxiety drugs ‘harder to come off than heroin’

Listening to families, safety management systems

including more events for example

Pinned down, force-fed and drugged into ‘zombie-like’ state: ‘Systemic abuse’ at children’s hospitals revealed

Huntercombe group : a mental health scandal

Systemic failures, PSIRF, surviving scrubs, and more…

including ombudsman raising concerns about human rights in Mental Health

https://www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/4739-human-rights-of-mental-health-patients-violated-amid-crisis-in-care-regulator-warns/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-rights-mental-health-care-crisis-b2234510.html

Bed shortages, painful hysteroscopy, revised NatSSIPs, and more…

Prescribing antidepressants for chronic pain lacks evidence, experts say

Trust must pay £200k to whistleblower it subjected to ‘campaign of harassment’

Women’s healthcare in Britain ‘worse than in China and Saudi Arabia’

Three-quarters of children detained under mental health act are girls, new report warns

Trust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower

The sinister side of medicine

Eight resources on eating disorders

Mothers and babies being put at risk due to unsafe NHS maternity services

Forgotten heroes, whistleblowing, thrombosis misdiagnosis

Leading for patient safety, ADHD diagnosis, private surgery

'Misogyny’ and ‘medical patriarchy’ widespread at major trust, reports find

The elephant in the room: Patient Safety and Integrated Care Systems

NHS trust to review all suicides since 2017

Drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines

Trust given warning notice over rapid tranquillisation

World Patient Safety Day, Lucy Letby verdict, Patient Safety Partners

Co-production with communities as a solution to health inequalities

Long-lasting sexual dysfunction after taking antidepressants: Lack of recognition harmful to patients

Warning to millions who have been prescribed popular antidepressants with potential side-effect that sparks long-term sexual dysfunction

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: After 30 years, why is the health system still failing to recognise this life-limiting adverse effect?

duty of candour + PSIRF

NHS computer issues linked to patient harm

CQC admits it is failing to keep patients safe

Creating a culture of safety through listening and collaboration

Inpatient mental health – a digital desert

getting people to accept restraints – seclusion – electro convulsive treatment – forced imprisonment – forced medication as human rights abuse is an uphill struggle – Wendy

Patient Safety Commissioner

The Hughes report: options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh

Patient association

events

Manifesto 2024

Take patient partnership from theory to practice

Make increasing the availability of quality care a national priority

Place health at the heart of government

Deliver genuine two-way communication between patients and the NHS

Provide the workforce that patients need

Published guidance for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) teams

the plan for health + care services to work with people + communities

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Easy-read-Working-with-People-and-Communities.pdf

Start engagement early

Provide clear and accessible public information

Build relationships with excluded groups

Co-produce and redesign services and tackle system priorities in partnership with people and communities

Nutrition Checklist

The NHS Constitution for England

Public Health Scotland CEO: Poverty costing NHS £2.3 billon

Government writes off £1.4bn of PPE from Covid deal

Shared decision making

CHANGE NHS CONSULTATION - DECEMBER

Just Treatment

As laid out in this important article by clinical psychologist Sanah Ahsan

our current approach to mental health care is centred on purely medical responses to "individual" conditions

But we know that issues such as poverty, debt and housing play a huge role – in fact, 73% of Just Treatment supporters who filled out our recent survey on mental health cited material conditions as a key cause of poor mental health

A landmark legal case against big pharma greed

Fighting for our children’s lives

Engage Britain

Maytree

ZERO SUICIDE ALLIANCE – FREE TRAINING

Autism training

Suicide + co

Suicide Crisis

Citizen UK

19 January

Make every contact count – RESOURCES

Kings Fund

Kings Fund do provide FREE spaces – just ask for one - our voices are important

FREE ONLINE COURSE - Play full: getting creative with design thinking in health and care

“you called we came”

open wounds - online

Transforming power relationships in partnership working

Power over

Power with

Power to

Power is seen as finite and zero-sum – you either have it or you don’t

Use of authority to coerce, control and repress others seeking to claim power

Power is negative and repressive and perpetuates inequity

Power with others through collective action and coalition

Mutual support, solidarity and collaboration

The power of humans to be agents of change and to exercise their agency

Strong foundations: why everyone needs good emotional health – and how to achieve it

Public harms: racism and misogyny in policing, education, and mental health services

Mental Health Bill 2024: what you need to know

Mental Health Bill: memorandum on European Convention on Human Rights

The government does not seem to understand the level of abuse within Mental Health hospitals - Wendy

Health and Wellbeing Bulletin

Including poor health + housing + obesity + bad roads

Health Management and Policy Alert: 10 September 2021

Including Home for all

Making good trouble: Clenton Farquharson CBE on co-production, equity and change

People power: lessons from the health care response to the Grenfell Tower fire

What is needed to reduce ethnic minority health inequalities

How much longer and further are health inequalities set to rise

Poverty and ill health: what's the connection?

How will integrated care systems work under the Health and Care Bill

Including details of a free course “an introduction to leading with kindness and compassion in health + social care

The power of those small acts of kindness

Six ways to create a culture for integration 

Experiment + learn together

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Have a clear shared vision

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Set the tone

Understand each others worlds

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Use data to prompt discussion

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Share challenges + strengths

Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report

Discharge from mental health inpatient settings

Devolution in Manchester has improved health system, study finds

From refugee to NHS doctor, Dr Waheed Arian tells his story on our podcast

Listen to mums: ending the postcode lottery on perinatal care

General election briefing: health is our greatest asset

We know that poverty kills people early - so too does the stigma that surrounds it

AI in healthcare: navigating the noise

What could provider collaboratives look like

Not really outcome-based commissioning? Certainly not people commissioning? – Wendy

UCL Institute of Health Equity

The abundance project - TO SEPTEMBER 2027

Health inequalities: Improving accountability in the NHS, August 2023

Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London

Westminster Health Forum - WHF - policy conference – PROVIDE FREE SPACES – JUST APPLY

Natasha Devon

Brooke Siem

A relaxation technique to help you

Who cares 4 the carers

People’s theatre

Camden people’s theatre

Degenerate Fox Theatre

Underground lights

Brixton House

Autograph

Call for Writing: Photography, Colonialism and Climate Justice

Somerset House

Somerset House Studios

Watermans – events

Exchange – Twickenham

MAIA

Justice

Haldane society of socialist lawyers

Barefoot Lawyer

London legal support trust

Law centre Network

South West London Law centre

Leigh Day

Appeal

Innocence Project

Law for life

High pay centre

4 day working week

Platform London

What’s the truth about mental health and unemployment?

strength based learning

Basic Income UK

46% of Britions support Universal basic income – so how do we get this to happen ?

living wage quiz

Video of launch for treating causes not symptoms: basic income as a public health measure

UBI gives people the chance to make their own choices, to make decisions for themselves, their communities, their households, their lives and their futures

UBI does everything from sharing out problems, to delivering a feminist vision to tackling the climate emergency, to stopping benefit traps

It does all those things, but ultimately UBI is democracy

Baroness Natalie Bennett

Every step we take towards a Basic Income will liberate power in the hands of the citizen

Paddy Ashdown

Andy Burnham joins call for basic income trial

Report from Manchester University

How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression

Stockton, California who released incredible results from the experiment there

Our proposal for a community led basic income pilot in Jarrow and Grange, East Finchley

A beginner’s guide to basic income costings

Universal basic income motion passed by Richmond Council

Large Basic Income for Artists pilot launched in Ireland

Evaluation of welsh basic income pilot

The UK Four-Day Week Pilot One Year On

Treating causes not symptoms

Autonomy

The world transformed

universal basic income discussion

community land trusts

Basic income + our mental health

Newsletter of the European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time

Transform Justice

Prosecuting mental health – accountability or criminalisation

A different understanding How the CJS discriminates against those with autism

When should a family dispute end up in court

Barely legal - The experience of remote tribunal hearings

The forgotten people - Prisoners on remand in the pandemic

Does L&D stop the revolving door of police custody

Does diversion from court have an image problem

Computer says yes – you will pay a fine and get a criminal record

Swipe right to plead guilty

Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias

From cells to streets - the revolving door of crime and homelessness

Many on Mental Health wards are also homeless – from Manchester data – do we need to think about this differently ? - Wendy

Court Watch

Equal Justice USA

the system does not make us safer

The Harm of Misinformation

Lauren

INQUEST

Truth, justice + accountability

no more deaths campaign

Charlie + Jason + Hennie

Progress on the legal aid for inquests campaign

Deaths of racialised people in prison 2015 – 2022: Challenging racism and discrimination

Black men seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism not being addressed

Family Consultation Day report on deaths of people with mental ill health, a learning disability or autism

New INQUEST podcast shines a light on powerful resistance by bereaved families

LISTEN NOW: Podcast exploring policing's fatal consequences through the decades

LISTEN NOW: New episode asking, from Cherry Groce to Chris Kaba, what happens when the police kill?

✨40 Years of INQUEST: Unlocking the truth

Newsletter including events

NO more deaths

Challenging state violence + justice campaigns

Alice Figueiredo: London NHS Trust to stand trial for corporate manslaughter over death of mental health inpatient

Morgan + Matty + Wayne

Justice – EVENTS

Restorative justice 4 all

The Howard League

International Women’s Day

A day in the community where we celebrate and empower women

Unfortunately, for women in prison, today won’t be a day for celebrations

There were almost 5,000 receptions of women into prison last year, and more than half of them were for women on remand

Too many women are being swept up into the justice system when it is not necessary or appropriate

Most women in prison have a history of childhood abuse or trauma, they need a safe space and support

Prison life during the pandemic

International Women's Day and other news

Commission on Crime and Gambling Related Harms

Criminal justice lessons from across the globe

The decades-long injustice of the IPP sentence must end

PAVA spray – NO

In the last year, prisoners self-harmed at a rate of once every 10 minutes

Spark Inside

A future that excites us!

Jonno

User Voice

Koestler Arts

Faircheck

Reprieve

American Mercinaries: Killing in Yemen on BBC Iplayer

capital punishment is racist - PETITION

Fairsquare

Rainbow Migration

safe here

Happy LGBT+ History Month!

Stonewall

Happy LGBT+ History Month!

Decolonising futures

Allout

Equality act Japan

Liberty – know your rights

Who profits from our broken asylum system?

new official definition of ‘extremism’

5 WAYS THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MAKES THE UK A BETTER PLACE

Our fight to defend democracy

The next government - 4 July

☑Protect everyone's human rights

☑Treat everyone with dignity and respect

☑Defend everyone's ability to challenge those in power

UNJUST UK

Black lives matter

Fighting NHS Charging – What can you do now

Big brother watch

Orwell's predictions are coming true

Baroness Kidron

political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable

and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind

George Orwell

Inside the UK’s welfare surveillance system

Using Freedom of information requests – Wendy

Why is PayPal trying to silence activists

Whistleblower: 'army spied on UK citizens'

Edward +Annie + David + Jeffrey + Thomas

Inside the post-Snowden legal challenges

Stop the Met Police using facial recognition surveillance - PETITION

Minister meddled in facial recognition probe

Free e-book

Stop Govt spying on all of our bank accounts

Harry

5 things to know about the new Snooper’s Charter

Ex-undercover cop reveals surveillance tactics

New censorship tactics revealed

five threats to your privacy in this election

400,000 Housing Benefit claimants will be spied on by the Government

what the government isn't telling you about facial recognition

£230 million of taxpayers money on facial recognition software

We know this software is faulty - Wendy

NETPOL – the network for police monitoring

Copwatch

Bhatt Murphy Solicitors

Public interest law centre

Spycops in CND: Request for information

Good Law project

The fixers who made £98m from the Tories’ VIP lane

Fair square

Other information sources

the voice

‘We need urgent action on Black mental health’

People’s Voice media

Full Fact

Checking manifesto – JULY 2024

Knife crime in England and Wales is rising, even if you exclude London

What size are the UK’s armed forces?

Political parties misleading leaflets

Work and pensions secretary incorrectly claims PIP is worth ‘thousands of pounds a month’

Liz

NHS England gets data wrong

Has your Amazon Alexa been spreading misinformation ?

Is the government delivering what it promised ? The government needs to be clearer about how it will measure delivery

Toxic Bonds

Declassified UK

The Democracy Collaborative

think – do - change

Sanders and McDonnell on community wealth

The “Preston model”

Land banks and community land trusts

Community wealth building as health building

Scotland’s guide to community wealth building

wealth supremacy – how extractive economy + the biased rules of capitalism drive today’s crises

Democracy next

The UK election has resulted in a landslide majority for the Labour party

However, the incoming government should not forget that just a few weeks ago, a YouGov poll showed “a lack of trust in British politicians is the biggest reason non-voters are choosing not to vote,” and that among reform possibilities for the House of Lords chamber, a “rolling citizens’ assembly” was most favourable

How to assemble a Citizens' Assembly: a guide!

A Blueprint for the EU Citizens' Assembly

Big questions, detailed answers: Our definitive How-To Guide to Citizens' Assemblies is here

How Ireland transformed democracy

people assemblies in USA

people assemblies in German museums!

Parkdale People’s Economy

participatory budgeting process

Community wealth building comes to Scotland

How to Make a Democracy Economy

South Korea explores community wealth building

How NY can enter ‘a new era of public power’

‘A global beacon’ for community wealth

North Ayrshire Council in Scotland

a hunger for a new approach

a vision for democratic AI

🇺🇸 Rekindling American democracy's spirit of public happiness

people assembly – Oregon USA

people assembly on Youth Homelessness

Assemblies as an antidote to authoritarianism

🇬🇧 Where are the citizens in the UK's debate on assisted dying?

Decolonising wealth project

D@W

Technology

Innovation is not designed to create happiness

It's designed a lot of the time to facilitate one's needs and desires, to stimulate desire and all of those kinds of things

It's certainly about doing all of that, but it's not about making the world better for people

And it's not about improving their lives in any way

It's about trying to actually create a world in which more profit is to be had

Military

The one sector of government that doesn’t experience austerity is the military budget

To what degree is competition between states somehow rather related, tightly related, to the competition between capitalists

Cooperatives and socialism

cities after…

Office spaces as homes

Ask Prof Wolff: Is Nordic Socialism a Progressive Step

Swedish socialism undone

How Capitalism Shapes our Food

Coping with (and Resisting) Capitalism

Corporate watch

Who arms Israel ?

The national wealth service

Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know

Market Force

Tax Justice Network

You need to be very strong

To do the job that she did - you really have to be your own person

You couldn’t be the kind of person who worries what people might think of you, and you really have to say, no,

I’m not going to adapt, I’m not going to fall into that mould

I’m going to break it and keep breaking

Paul Caruana Galizia

Podcast: Tax Haven Ireland

Jersey’s Pandora’s Boxes: The Tax Justice Network podcast

The Swiss banking clean-up is a mirage

Butler Britain: PODCAST

10 measures to expose sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ hidden assets

'Non Doms' unmasked: PODCAST

Drug War Myths

How City of London finance is making us poorer – infographic

Tax haven ranking : UK protects itself while keeping world defenceless to British tax havens

people power

Every year an estimated £388 billion that should have been paid in tax disappears into tax havens

Tax Justice UK

Pandora Papers shows transparency failure is an accountability failure

The Prime Minister pays the same rate of tax as a teacher but earns £2.2 million

right time for taxes on wealth

How the super rich avoid inheritance tax

International pressure to tax billionaires is growing

Six wealth tax policies that could raise £50 billion

Ten tax reforms to raise £60 billion for public services and a fairer economy

UK’s richest families got inheritance tax relief on £2bn of assets in 2022

In a world struggling with a cost of living crisis recent research by Oxfam and ActionAid has shed light on a shocking reality

In 2021 and 2022 the world's 722 largest companies reaped windfall profits totalling a staggering $1 trillion annually

It couldn't be clearer that tackling the cost of living crisis requires a bold approach

This has to include higher taxes on both companies and the wealthy

The cost of living crisis affects ordinary individuals and families who struggle to make ends meet as prices soar for essential

goods and services while wages struggle to keep pace

Meanwhile, wealthy corporations have seen their profits skyrocket during these challenging times

Tax wealth not work

close tax loopholes for Amazon

Super rich landowners are attacking tax reform

How the super rich avoid inheritance tax

The royal family must be made to pay more tax

This information obtained using Freedom of Information requests

This discrepancy highlights the urgent need for systemic change

12 July 2023

Tax Watch UK

£2 billion in lost tech tax?

Democracy for sale

We Need to Have a Talk About Leonard Leo’s Version of Catholicism

Opus - dark money, a secretive cult, and its mission to remake our world

Trump campaigns received $45m from Tufton Street donors

At least $15.9 billion spent on US election campaigning

What a waste of money - We need to move to people power NOW ! - Wendy

Starmer's NHS 'fixer' has made £8m+ from private health consultancy

Peter Mandelson's Firm Secretly Lobbied for Qatar Freeports

Peter Mandelson’s lobbying form under investigation

Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0

Government gave £450m in subsides to sewage – dumping water firm

Labour donor’s private healthcare interests revealed

Labour to announce plans for five new UK freeports in budget

Tata Steel closure leaves 2,800 jobless - but could net bosses millions in profit

Tony Blair advising Covid contract ‘overnight billionaire’

Rachel Reeves advisor’s firm lobbies for Shein

British food firms successfully lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax

DP World: UK Minister told not to talk about P&O sackings

Stamer urged to cut ties with P&O ferries owner over links to Russia

UK lobbyists accused of ‘greenwashing’ oil-rich Azerbaijan ahead of COP climate summit

Musk $100m to Farage will break our democracy

Organized crime + corruption reporting project

The rapid rise of Russia’s powerful darknet drug industry

Open Democracy

Gaia

Linda

David

Universal basic income in Florida

Basic income “won’t stop people working” lessons from Canada

How misogyny lures men to the far right

Kenyan women are denouncing femicide. Will anyone listen?

African women and girls will die from unsafe abortions thanks to Trump win

Hidden in plain sight: The lobby group restricting rights in Latin America

British modern slavery victims imprisoned

UK troops stationed abroad pay for sex “day in, day out” without sanctions

Information obtained using Freedom of Information act – but the process was long + difficult – Wendy

Conspiracies and US cash: The fight to centre abortion in UK’s culture wars

‘Are we not human?’ Uganda’s LGBTIQ community reels as anti-gay law upheld

Uganda’s U-turn on refugee policy leaves Sudanese asylum seekers stranded

Rights groups urge World Bank not to resume lending to Uganda over anti-gay law

Government fails to monitor firms with £4bn contracts to house asylum seekers

Anti-immigrant laws leave 1,000s unable to claim asylum

Do we really need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?

Is Shell’s exit from Nigeria a front to dodge legal responsibilities?

Yes, slavery and empire did make Britain rich

Labour Lovebombed by lobbyists

Black Rock + Labour

No 10 advisor has financial interests in AI

As the far right riots in the UK, India offers a cautionary tale

I saw how the US backed Jerusalem’s ethnic cleansing – and Blair looked on

I’m disabled. Here’s why I am scared of the assisted dying bill

Disabled people don’t need another inquiry. We need change

Plans to spy on Disabled people’s bank accounts show Labour isn’t for change

Benefit crackdown will worsen an already terrible system

Universal basic income – 3 day week – well being / doughnut economy – we are not cogs in the capitalist system ? We are people End Wealth supremacy now ! - Wendy

Government secrecy still rife as departments consistently breach FOI deadlines

How the DWP fought to withhold evidence its policies kill disabled people

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy

Exclusive: Cops share dozens of photos of dead bodies and crime scenes

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy

David

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy

Government extensively profiled NHS doctor

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy

90% of Met officers disciplined for racism still work for force

Met Police officers kept jobs after sending racist and sexist messages

Met firearms officers: 2,000 complaints, 5 dismissals

Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests

More police officers are never the answer- only we can stop the far right

Racism in UK maternal care: ‘Why aren’t we being listened to’

Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions

Synagogue church of all nations scandal

Men’s Catholic order gave secret millions to ‘deceptive’ anti-abortion centres

US and European hate groups and conservatives used disinformation and lobbying to influence gender debate in Africa

Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for

Finance firms gave Labour £2m in two years before banker bonuses U-turn

UK accused of being ‘complicit’ in Gaza deaths after giving Elbit new contract

How the UK government rebranded protest as extremism

Conservative Party took £1.3m from donor group linked to Israeli settlements

A dying baby, a Trump tweet: Inside network setting global right-wing agenda

Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ vitriol is working – don’t take our rights for granted

What you need to know about Palantir, the US firm in line for a £480m NHS deal

European Union funds charity that compares abortion to Holocaust

The next prime minister could fix the housing crisis. Here’s how

Revealed: UK private tenants hit by record annual rent hikes

King Charles’ property empire earns £334,000 from housing benefit

Landlords urged to ‘take advantage’ of soaring rents in ‘grotesque’ email

Private renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement

Eight landlord MPs spoke during debate on renters’ rights

Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents

Landlords of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants secretly lobbied the government to let them charge more rent–while paying their executives nearly £300,000 a year each

I am facing my second no-fault eviction in two years. Renting is broken

The Budget is great for landlords but a disaster for renters

I’m an NHS children’s doctor. Our housing system is driving a national health emergency

Let's abolish the colonial IMF on its 80th birthday

Can tech ever rid us of online abuse? Does it even want to?

Local councils call bailiffs over debts of just £3

“Shocking decline” of HMP Wandsworth isn't an outlier

Labour accused of ‘racism’ after ‘disgusting’ treatment of Palestinian man

Labour and Tories fail to commit to exposing universities’ secret donors

Concerts, clothes and New York breaks: New ministers take £170,000 of gifts

Lobbyists helped MPs get elected – and you have no right to know about it

Starmer’s new immigration bill is just as racist as the Rwanda plan

Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms

Firm behind £4m Labour Party donation invested in weapons for Israel

No 10 adviser involved in AI policy has financial interests in AI

Waheed Alli found to have breached rules after openDemocracy investigation

How Big Pharma preys on poor countries – and patients pay the price

People + countries with less wealth always pay more for everything ? - Wendy

The UK doesn’t work for Disabled people

There are 16 million of us – Wendy

A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it

Is Shell’s exit from Nigeria a front to dodge legal responsibilities?

Business as usual for EU and Azerbaijan amid Nagorno-Karabakh ‘ethnic cleansing’

The silent serial killer: 391 deaths in 25 years at the UK border

Omid + Saratch + Abd + Houmed + Husham +

Tomatoes + greed

How can AI keep Australian kids off social media and porn sites?

Trump’s Project 2025 is already underway in Argentina, and it’s terrifying

Minister who owns beef farm approved £5m ad campaign promoting red meat

information obtained using Freedom Of information (FOI) requests - Wendy

Foxglove

Facebook whistleblowers in the UK

Why Facebook can’t fix itself

Hey, YouTube – leave our kids alone

Breaking Big Tech’s chokehold in Brussels

Article 11 trust

Freedom of assembly

Campaign for freedom of information

ICO should end its near invisibility on FOI

Call for tougher FOI enforcement and other news

Encouraging FOI news

ICO action against government departments for FOI delays

Social housing and Freedom of Information

FOI challenges on national security, social housing and the environment

Heather Brooke

Index on censorship

SLAPPS

Music and protest - Iranian rap to Fairytale of New York - Censoring pro-Palestinian art - Goodbye to Kissinge

Hacking is far more than a security issue. It chills free speech

We must not stay silent on Iran’s use of the death penalty

Remembering the women who pay the ultimate price for freedom

Ukraine – why we can not afford to look away

UK journalists fall victim tonew police tactics

The silencing of Afghanistan's women

Can newspapers still hold the powerful to account?

Toomaj Salehi’s lyrics

Crown confidential – end Royal secrecy

How Putin’s Russia is weaponising psychiatry against its critics

Project Censored

INFOGRAPHICS – SIMPLIFIED MEDIA GUIDES

Freedom film network

Article 19 – defending freedom of expression + information

What we want for the internet cannot be accomplished with the state of concentration we currently have…

Bringing together all these brains in one room makes for a stronger platform for us to speak in one new unified voice.

Then the tech organisations can actually listen to us

Virginiah Gitome, Code for Africa

(Kenya coalition member)

Because concentration creates bottlenecks of power

Agustina Del Campo, free speech expert

Anger is not sufficient to maintain motivation over time;

you also need to have hope,

and to believe that you can make a difference

Kathryn Sikkink, author and human rights academic

It is beyond outrageous that the authorities plan to deprive millions of girls and women of access to schools and universities and the right to education in a bid to subdue their spirit of resistance and freedom-seeking

Saloua Ghazouani, ARTICLE 19’s Director for Middle East and North Africa

I chose journalism to be close to people

It might not be easy to change the reality, but at least I could bring their voice to the world

Shireen Abu Akleh - Palestinian–American journalist

Protecting the Right to Protest

How can we end violence against women journalists?

75 years on: How human rights heroes create change

social media4peace +

Belarus: Time to make some noise

tackling hate speech online

celebrating women free expression heroes

Speaking up for digital freedoms worldwide

Maria Baronova

anti – SLAPPS conference

ending SLAPPS in Poland

UK and USA: Traditionally ‘Open’ societies have begun closing

silenced podcasts

Queer resistance to digital oppression in the Middle East and North Africa

Podcast ‘Silenced’: Afghan journalist Sanjar Sohail

Mahsa Jhina Amini

How can the UN protect freedom of expression for our future?

Freedom of expression key principles :

Free media is essential for democracy

Free expression protects disagreement and debate, not incitement to violence

Information integrity fosters understanding and strengthens societies

Information is power

Freedom of expression must be defended on the international stage

Younger people

NSPCC

Nobody is normal

Become

Manifesto for new parliament – VIDEO

Gone too far

Kinship

Causeway

Place2Be

Home start

Plan International UK

Charlie Waller

we are the agenda

Young Minds

Anxiety

depression

Tips for coping with peer pressure

Toxic masculinity and mental health

self care

tips on the start of your eating disorder recovery journey

Rediscovering your identity in eating disorder recovery

Worksheet

Read our tips and advice for supporting a friend

new resource on panic attacks

Free online training

building positive mental health – including worksheets

culturally-informed guides with young people

support if you are experiencing Islamophobia

What to do if you’re experiencing eating problem

A guide to eating problems for parents/carers

How to support a friend with an eating disorder

How to have a conversation with young people about mental health

Stress bucket – video

Five tips for looking after yourself during family arguments

How I'm learning to cope with travel anxiety

Aaron

Jayda

Talking about Mental Health

Assembly - Malala

Fighting for the right to learn

From Afghan girls, to you: “our story is full of hope”

Hearing from Afghan girls on Malala Day

My body - my sanctuary - how body shaming affects girls beyond self-esteem

From Guyana to Indonesia, Assembly is the place for girls' voices

When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful

"Stay true to what you believe in and let your art reflect it"

"We are here to get our futures back"

My unforgettable chat with Malala in Brazil

Brazilian girls are deciding their future

Using your voice for policy change

Using comedy as a vehicle for activism in Nigeria

Manizha + Zahra +Nila

Nelson + Malala

Saundarya

Recognising your power and taking action

What would education be like if it was designed by girls – for girls ?

Girls Are Taking Over

Coram’s Young Citizens

End violence against women + girls

Young Women's Trust

domestic abuse is a gender crime ?

lots of other events !

Flexible working …

Women’s Aid

Refuge

Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Maela

Listening to the stories of women who have experienced child removal due to drug and alcohol use

Is Hanna Pichard’s work relevant here ? - Wendy

10 November 2022 – Report - Key perinatal mental health findings

40%of deaths within the year after pregnancy were from mental health-related causes

Suicide remains the leading cause of direct maternal death in the first postnatal year

Suicide during pregnancy or up to six weeks after is increasing:
In 2020, women were three times more likely to die by suicide during this period compared to 2017-19

Very few women who died by suicide in 2020 had formal mental health diagnoses, but significant numbers had a history of trauma

Maternal mental health briefing for integrated care systems

We want all integrated care boards and partnerships to work collectively across the NHS, local government, other public services, and voluntary sector organisations to provide services that support maternal mental health, reduce health inequalities and use public money wisely so that all women and their families can access the care they need

Maternity Action

The Loss Collective

The Miscarriage Association

The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust

Tommy’s

Sands

The Birth Trauma Association

Antenatal Results and Choices

British Pregnancy Advisory Service

Twins Trust Bereavement Service

The Lullaby Trust

Off the record – BRISTOL

The Purple Elephant Project

Arts Emergency

Child poverty action group

Fantastic for families

BS3 Community

Family lives – update

preparing your teenager for adulthood

Barnardo’s

Ask pornography sites and the government to protect children more

IVISON

Government bodies

mental health act statistics – annual figures 2021 - 22

EASY READ

Still, we suffer – Wendy

Draft mental health bill 2022

draft mental health bill – EASY READ

Mental Health Strategy Delivery Plan for 2022/23

Rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings: final report and recommendations

Proposed NHS mental health access standards for patients

Energy Bills Support Scheme explainer

Decision aid to guide healthcare professional-patient discussions on sleeping pill prescriptions published

Government must act now to protect tenants from ‘catastrophic’ impact of poor housing on health, warn MPs

Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care

Health research authority (HRA)

Health quality improvement partnership (HQIP)

Care quality commission - CQC

From Paternalism to human rights

Joanna Moncrieff

Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report

Out of sight- who cares

Who I am Matters – A report into the experiences of being in hospital for people with a learning disability and autistic people

Our revised plan and approach for transformation

Restrictive practice — a failure of person-centred care planning?

Our approach to assessing local authorities

Pop up care homes

National Audit office

Organised crime may be profiting from student loan fraud worth £60m – report

Improving productivity could release tens of billions for government priorities

The effectiveness of government in tackling homelessness

Office for National Statistics

MONTHLY EVENTS TO DECEMBER 2024

A report from the Office of National Statistics revealed an estimated 778 people died in England and Wales while homeless in 2019 – an annual increase of 7%

This is the fifth year in a row that the number of people who have died has increased

It is the highest number since records began

The lasting impact of violence against women and girls

Beneath our feet: improving estimates of UK land value

ONS blog - Inclusive measures of growth – How ONS is moving Beyond GDP

Imprisonment of young adults

Boosting the UK’s research capabilities to help solve the challenges of the day

Geographic divide in health, disability and unpaid care

ONS - Disability: When the numbers alone are simply not enough

Census 2021 – Shining a light on the population

UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard

Measuring wellbeing and going ‘Beyond GDP’

Housing + rental prices – semi automated tool – NOVEMBER 2024

DHSC Voluntary Sector Newsletter – INCLUDING HELPLINE FOR SUPPORTING + BEHAVIOUR

Ombudsman news special – annual review launched

local government + social care ombudsman – update

Ombudsman considers everyday human rights in new report

Broken trust: making patient safety more than just a promise

local government association (LGA)

Debate Not Hate: the impact of abuse on local democracy

improvement + innovation

Get in on the Act: Mental Health Act 2022

Top tips and key actions for successful collaborative partnership working across mental health services

Help with cost of living hub

INCLUDING THE SELF BUILD + CUSTOM HOUSING BUILDING ACT

London Assembly

December 2024

Energy advice london

older londoners

Public meetings

Including monthly Mayor’s Question time

free school meals in London to 2025

My society – including support with FOI requests

PETITION – Vital information hidden

NIHR

Events

Stop talking and take action: working together to tackle health inequalities

Housing support services in hospitals may speed up discharge

Antipsychotics pose previously unknown risks to dementia patients, NIHR study finds

Cervical screening: home self-sampling could be environmentally friendly

Cervical cancer statistics

A summer’s violence: knowing, and caring, when inequality bites

Exploring therapeutic engagement in Finnish adult acute inpatient mental health settings

NEW CHARTER PROVIDES FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT & ENGAGEMENT

together in research - autumn 2024

Health and Social Care Committee

Health + Safety Executive (HSE)

Adult social care update

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

New end of life and palliative care report

SCIELine: New strengths-based approaches resources and learning

free mental capacity act e-learning +

My day my way

Strengths-based practice for council services and more

Strengths-based leadership / safeguarding / workforce

what is strong rather than what is wrong

Strengths – based approaches

Covid-19, learning disabilities and autism

Why are we stuck in hospital ?

Nobody listened to me

John Evans

Accelerating reform

Wandsworth

Healthwatch Wandsworth

Enough is enough - Hard-hitting report tackles ongoing health inequalities in mental health services

Community Empowerment Network (CEN)

In the UK, people with brown skin are being denied equal and compassionate mental health care

They are more likely to be brought to and kept in hospital without their consent

They are more likely to access mental health services through the police and criminal justice systems, and to find themselves unwell and back again once released

People with brown skin, particularly men, are more likely to be forcibly restrained and given more than the recommended amount of medication

WCEN 2021

SoundMinds

Canerows

Share

Shared lives plus

PohWER

VoiceAbility

Rethink Advocacy

Wandsworth Adult social care

Richmond

Richmond community drug + alcohol service (RCDAS)

Mon – Weds – Thursday – Friday – 9am to 430pm

Tuesday 9am to 1pm women only

Tuesday 1pm to 430pm

Ilex House

Unit 2

94 Holly Road

TW14HF

0203 228 3020

Richmond Foundation

Mortlake community association

ETNA

Cooking up

Whitton Community centre

Whitton Network

part of Neighbourhood care group

SW LONDON ICS – update

Richmond town centre has a new ‘Safe Space’ on Friday and Saturday nights

Arts Richmond

Richmond MIND

Hearing Voices Group +

sometimes we do not realise we are lonely

We’re expanding our Psychotherapy and Counselling service and looking for new members of the team

Mental Health Act stats demonstrate increasing racial injustice

well-being walks

well being centre

self – coaching group +

Art Group

Basic art materials are provided

The group takes place every Wednesday – 1-2.30pm at the Vineyard Café in Richmond

contact

peernetwork@rbmind.org

Art group Turner House

contact

ewa.rudz@rbmind.org

Compared to other London boroughs Richmond has

The highest rate of hospital admission for mental health

The second highest rate of admission for self-harm

The 4th worst youth wellbeing score

A third of those aged 16-19 already have a mental health diagnosis

Statistics from the Richmond Borough Health and Care Plan 2019-2021 and the Mental Health Needs Assessment 2022

Your ideas wanted

contact engagement@rbmind.org

Join carers community

contact carers@rbmind.org

Mind responds to announcement of Work Capability Assessment reforms

free mindfulness workshop every Monday

Ruils

Winter newsletter

Activities

Bridge the gap – support booklet

Together as one

Still building bridges

Richmond Aid

Dose of Nature

Rape crisis

Everyone’s invited

Polyester

Aurora New Dawn

Off the record – Twickenham

Look ahead

Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College

United response

Ruben

Easy News: Personal Independence Payments - what might change and how you can have your say

EASY READ : 2024 budget

Choice support

Richmond film society

Healthwatch Richmond

Guide to Richmond’s NHS, Care & Support

Help with the cost of living - information event; and Support with accessing food and other needs All useful info for you

Money worries?

Lots of info and assistance available

Learn the signs of sepsis

resources to help if your child seems unwell

Persistent cough? get it checked by your GP

Lung Cancer

Connect to Tech

Anti-Bullying week - Make a noise! Plus help with cyber-bullying

Screening children for Type 1 diabetes risk; Proposals for children's cancer services location

Bowel cancer

end-of-life compassionate support

Support with domestic abuse

Information about blood pressure

Bowel cancer information

Hospital discharge - Stalking - awareness - Richmond Park accessible minibus returns!

Support to stop smoking

YOUTH COUNCIL PODCAST: CHALLENGING 'TOXIC MASCULINITY'

Richmond CVS

Training + events

finding local care + support

free 1-2-1 digital support

Talking Bubble – Telephone Befriending with Language Options

Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond

One Richmond

The sleep charity

Richmond council – LBRUT

weekly update

Careplace

Richmond Furniture Scheme

Fuel Grant Scheme

Additional grants are also available from the Household Support Fund for food, bills and other essential items, via Citizens Advice Richmond and Richmond AID

Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond

cost of living hub

cost of living directory

Mental Health Awareness Week: Coping with feelings of anxiety

Free minibus service to Richmond Park

Move more at home

recycle your small electricals

Eight ways to help reduce your risk of dementia

Black history month

December with Richmond Libraries

Citizens ADVICE

Centre for Governance + Scrutiny (CfGS)

Open government is the ‘foundation of good government.'

If done well, open government:

reduces opportunities for corruption, saving the taxpayer money

builds trust through a collaborative approach to problem-solving and policy development

helps ensure officials act in the public interest and enhances the integrity of public institutions

supports growth and efficiency by leveraging technology and data

can local councils and health bodies work together effectively to improve health outcomes, or will the reforms simply be another round of political manoeuvring?

council constitutions owned + understood by all

governance & scrutiny newsletter

including the review of council constitutions + the operation of schemes of delegation for decision making

The listening circle

My life films charity

Inspired Hub

Hounslow

Alliance Art

West London Queer project

Hounslow Healthwatch

You can find details of health services in your area from NHS Choices

Call 999 for emergency services

Emergency and urgent care health services – 111

Hounslow Council: Out of hours social care support – 020 8583 2222 For more information please click here

Hounslow Council: For more information on Adult social care, please click here

Hounslow Council: For more information on Children and families, please click here

CarePlace: Provides a Directory of Services, Information and Guidance enabling direct access to local care and community services For more information, please click here

West London NHS Trust – Mental health crisis: 24-hour helpline 0800 328 4444 For more information, please click here

safe space Hounslow crisis helpline – 0203 475 5185 – 11am to 11pm – 365 days per year

Hounslow Council

Hounslow matters weekly newsletter

Thrive weekly newsletter - including events

Heston Repair Café

contact

hestonrepaircafe@gmail.com

Food for thought

Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter OBE has today offered support for Hounslow Council’s trailblazing new programme

Grow for the Future

a first-of-its-kind policy in the UK to turn wasteland across the London borough into new allotments - community gardens and orchards to grow food and pair them with local schools to teach children about healthy living - sustainability and biodiversity

Heston farm community space to grow fruit + vegetables – get involved

Free trees

English lessons for asylum seekers

contact

maryam@hthounslow.org.uk

Cost of living + general support

Hounslow House

Fridays – 10 -1pm

gambling support

baby cafe

Diabetes REWIND programme

Bell Square – what’s on

The coproduction academy

Hounslow Wellbeing network

Sutton +

Sutton Healthwatch – Mental Well Being

Mental Health Foundation

The economic case for investing in the prevention of mental health conditions in the UK

Mental health tips

Mental health and the cost-of-living crisis report: another pandemic in the making?

Check out our ways to cope with anxiety

Check out our ways to cope with depression

Sutton Mental Health Foundation

Sutton Wellbeing Line

We all get more forgetful as we get older, but there are things you can do about it

The way you live your life, and in particular the way in which you eat,

can make a huge difference to your memory, slowing down cognitive decline or even reversing it

Westminster Drug project (WDP)

Mental Health Mates

The Health Foundation

what drives health inequalities

How less pay has affected people's mental health and wellbeing

Action as an antidote to despair

Putting people at the heart of data-driven health systems to address inequalities

Taking action to build good health

including importance of social determinants

A pebble in a still pond: the impact of community-led work on health inequalities

Let’s talk differently about health: why framing matters

A framework for NHS action on social determinants of health

A time for radical innovation and improvement

What’s important when building a strong learning community to drive improvement?

Can automation help with growing dissatisfaction among GPs?

Why housing matters for health

Moving to healthy homes

Working at system level to eradicate health inequalities for the UK’s black community

Wall-to-wall support: joining up public services and housing for vulnerable children, young people and families

This report argues that public services need to be more effectively joined up

It finds that a lack of joined-up public services is costing government up to £4.3 billion every year

These costs are a direct result of additional use of government services, such as housing or health, by young people and families who did not access adequate support or early help when they needed it

The NHS was never meant to go it alone

Doing more for less? A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of primary care networks in socioeconomically deprived areas

How can the next government take prevention from rhetoric to reality?

Health at the heart of government: rebuilding the nation’s health through mission-driven government

ROTA

30 January 2025

Peer researchers

Runnymede Trust

Good things Foundation

Minaj

Think Ahead

PCCS Books – Including Joanna Moncrieff’s book A straight talking introduction to psychiatric drugs – the truth about how they work + how to come off them

Black Identities – Student Discount – Hearing Voices – Wild Therapy

Therapists Challenging Racism and Oppression: The unheard voices

Likewise

StopSIM Coalition Petition

Camden +

Side by side

Let’s talk Islington

oxevision

Oxevision cameras and the Trust now in the Independent

Conversations Around Loneliness & Mental Health booklet

Body worn cameras

Any thoughts please contact

TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com

DIALOG+ and the Recovery Star

Dear Friends,

I was wondering if you have experience of either DIALOG+ or the Recovery Star

(or other stars – more about those here:History of the star+Recovery star 4)

There was an element of co-production in the Recovery Star for Mental Health, and there has since been an Un-Recovery Star, also from the user-survivor movement which outlines the things that work against our recovery

These are the questions that the DIALOG

tool asks

and these are the areas of the 4th Edition Recovery star

Note that it used to contain “work” but this has been dropped now

The Recovery Star covers ten outcome areas:

Managing mental health

Physical health

Living skills

Friends and community

Use of time

Relationships

Addictive behaviour

Home

Identity and self-esteem

Trust and hope

The Recovery Star (4th Edition) is underpinned by a five-stage, ten step Journey of Change model:

Stuck (1-2)

Accepting help (3-4)

Believing and trying (5-6)

Learning (7-8)

Self-reliance (9-10)

I would be interested to hear your opinions and in particular how you think they compare

Thanks

Bev

TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com

Stuart Low Trust

Find a balance

Stress Project

Mental Health collective

Support After Suicide

No Panic

McPin Foundation

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which uses the format of three lines

Here are our haikus

We hope you enjoy reading them

The Benefits System:

I have no money

Brown arrives, phew

Do I deserve it?

Racism:

You pray to their gods

Then, under your burning cross,

You murdered them all

Propaganda:

Feeding me with lies

Why not report some good news?

Keeping me in fear

Benefits + Work

Labour adopts hated Tory bank surveillance and DWP search and seize powers

Inner Space

Free space Project

Talk4health

South west London VCSE alliance newsletter

Kingston Hospital’s Health Talks podcast

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG)

Recovery college

New Hearing Voices Group in Teddington every 2nd Thursday of each month 5:30 -7pm - Starting 9 November

contact

involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk

Black thoughts 1st+ 3rdThursday of month 6.30 – 8pm

contact

involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk

South London listens

Looseheadz

We add Heart

ELFT Trustalk Magazine

Every mind matter – NHS

Education

Sir Ken Robinson

education

A future for all of us …

Level 2 Qualifications – Without paying a penny

Covid-19: how tech could transform education

we find any learner – free training

London school of Economics – EVENTS

UCL events

NEON

Power to people

Samaritans

LGBT Foundation

Galop

London Friend

Papyrus

SHOUT

Switchboard

SOS (Silence Of Suicide)

PSSD UK

Reclaim

Fairness foundation

wealth gap register

Citizens commission on human rights international – the MH industry watchdog

Ban Electro convulsive treatment – PETITION

New black box warning ⬛

Let's get the FDA to do its job

Drugging Foster Care Children

World health organisation + UN commit to zero psychiatric coercion

UN Human Rights Council Condemns Forced Psychiatric Practices

Including Electro convulsive treatment - this report is many years old (2018) so why no action locally from Health + well-being board + Integrated Care Board ? - despite knowing about the issue ? - are these boards failing us ? - Wendy

Time magazine wrote :-

America has reached peak therapy why is our Mental Health getting worse ?

which states research suggests both misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis are common in psychiatry

One 2019 study even concluded that the criteria underlying psychiatric diagnoses are 'scientifically meaningless' due to their inconsistent metrics, overlapping symptoms, and limited scope

That's a sobering conclusion because diagnosis largely determines treatment

We need to look at “social determinates”of well being ?

Power to people ?

Housing + income ?

Well being / doughnut economies ? - Wendy

Study Exposing Financial Ties Between DSM Contributors And Pharma

CCHR Advocates For Ban On Electroshock Amid Concerns Raised By International Survey

STUDY QUESTIONS SERIOUS FLAWS IN $35 MILLION ANTIDEPRESSANT RESEARCH

EXPOSING SEXUAL ASSAULT IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE FACILITIES

FDA PROPOSES NEW BAN ON ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY AT JUDGE ROTTENBERG CENTER

⚡TWO-THIRDS OF ELECTROSHOCK VICTIMS ARE WOMEN

Spanish Supreme Court Upholds CCHR’s Psychiatric Abuse Education Campaign As Vital

Synergi

Children of the Windrush Documentary by Fresh Arts

UPDATE

Queenie on Channel 4

BRAP

Involve

participatory budgeting

Common Wealth

Anti – slavery

Human dignity trust

Transform trade

UK spend on Halloween over £1 billion

We need to talk about seeds

Adidas

Not to spoil the mood this Valentine's Day... ❤️

Citizen Network

What is Citizen network ?

MORE EVENTS

Glyn

7 keys to citizenship

Inclusion – we welcome everyone	Community – we take care of each other	Democracy – we decide things together

	Everyone is a citizen

Nature – we look after our world		Justice – we share what we have

New Economics Foundation

Danny

NEF’s founders wanted to:

Regenerate local economies and enrich poorer countries through self-reliant development

Work within ecological constraints, human needs for survival, social justice and self-fulfilment

Grow the green and renewable industries of the future and care for and maintain the built and natural environment

And reorganise work so it can meet human needs

Why antiracism means anticapitalism

People on the lowest incomes are paying even more of their salaries in tax under this government

Why the climate crisis means higher prices

building a well being economy

do not believe the hype

Well being economy now ? - Wendy

We need universal basic services to tackle the climate crisis

Why carbon taxes should be spent on insulating the UK’s draughty homes

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years

The £58bn housing benefit bill dwarfs the £115bn Affordable Homes Programme

Government subsidising private landlords £70bn over next five years

building a well being economy

From compliance to engagement

The best things do come through big, bold change

The community right to buy

Trapped in poverty by our social security system

There are other ways to tackle the cost of living crisis — just ask France and Spain

Child poverty rises six times faster in most deprived areas compared to the richest

Denise + Frank + Mickey + Arran

Buying back better

COST OF HOUSING HOMELESS PEOPLE SKYROCKETING FOR COUNCILS

How our extractive land and development models work against public good

How the Bank of England is wasting billions in public money boosting banking sector profits

Edge Fund

The social Guarantee

Locality – the power of community

community power revolution –manifesto

Introduce a Community Power Act

Create a National Community Ownership Strategy

Put communities in charge of local economic development

Make collaboration – not competition - the guiding principle of public services

Champion community-led housing and neighbourhood planning

Keep it local for better health

Nesta

use collective intelligence to solve public problems

How Singapore transformed government services

South Korea’s Green new Deal

wealth + income inequality

four-day week

How Mombasa is fighting to protect its blue economy

Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)

CLES is calling for political parties to rediscover the power of place and take six bold actions to harness the power of local to deliver change:

Reverse austerity, power local economies

Reframe devolution

Make wealth building everyone’s business

Empower places to lead climate action

Power up local employment pathways

Reignite local planning

Re-thinking power

Delivering the doughnut…

community wealth building: a history

A roadmap for asset ownership

Raising council tax won’t fix local government

Levelling up paper falls way short of what is needed

growth for growth sake

Building community wealth in Lewes

community right to buy

Community-led development: a roadmap for asset ownership

Building Community Wealth in Scotland

a new vision for community wealth and power

Can freeports be fair?

Community wealth building 2024

How to build an anchor network ⚓

Social value

including making the best use of land + assets - Wendy

4 day week

NEW LOCAL

3 June 2025 – STRONGER THINGS

It’s not about us asking for trust, it’s about us radically trusting citizens

Audrey Tang

Community-powered investment has positive impact on health

A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality

How community power can save money and reduce demand on public services

It's time for a Community Power Act

Community engagement and the power of ‘what if?’

Place-Based Public Service Budgets: Making Public Money Work Better for Communities

Power to the people? The route to English devolution

Three elements will be important for mission-driven government

Embedding meaningful participation through devolution

How We Did It: Using our equalities strategy to address power imbalances between council and communities

Three spending shifts: How the Government can propel person-centred funding

The case for community-powered development and regeneration – housing

Addressing the structural weakness at Whitehall’s heart

New Citizenship project

DemocracyNext

Tech-Enhanced Citizens’ Assemblies: Toward a more healthy and constructive democracy

New paper: Six ways to democratise city planning

Ireland lead the way with citizen assemblies

What happened in Ireland ?

Macron praises French Assembly on end-of-life

How to supercharge democracy in Austria

How a permanent Citizens' Assembly in Paris passed a bill into law

Truth + love in politics

Apolitical

Resolution Foundation

Caring robots

Power to change

devolving power beyond town hall

Locally rooted community businesses

buying 11 coastal houses from the council for £1 – community land trust

Unlocking the potential of community energy

community ownership

The public want council assets sold to the community

What’s the future of New Economies

Land value capture

Onion Collective

Plunkett Foundation – events +

social enterprise UK

Deveron Projects

Equally ours

the impact of the Equality Act 2010, gender equality in local councils, and why voter ID is a disproportionate solution

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REMOVED HOMOSEXUALITY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES IN 1990

32 YEARS LATER, ATTEMPTS TO ‘CURE’ US ARE STILL HAPPENING (and LEGAL)

Conversion therapy includes medical, psychiatric, psychological, religious, cultural or any other interventions that seek to change, “cure”, or suppress the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of a person

Figures from the UK Government’s National LGBT Survey found that:

7% of LGBT people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy

10 % of asexual people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy

13% of trans people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy

At home early medical abortions, ethnicity and heightened risk poverty, racism and the environmental emergency, and more

Youth-led change making and activism

Age dispute process puts refugee children at risk

Equality Trust blog: Why do we need to talk about mental illness, shame, stigma and inequality

New research on violence against disabled women: It's all about control!

GOALS

Keep the UK signed into the European Convention on Human Rights

Repeal the cruel Rwanda Act, Illegal Migration Act & Nationality & Borders Act

Enshrine the Right to Food in UK law

Recognise China’s genocide against the Uyghurs

Strengthen the Modern Slavery Act to sanction businesses which profit from modern slavery

Defending our human rights

Decolonising economics

Out + about + Nature

Flock together

Baker Street Irregular Astronomers

Centre for ecotherapy

Green Gyms

Real junk food project – twickenham

Capital Growth – Training + events

Can urban food growing tackle the climate and nature emergency

including community assets – Wendy

Sustainable Food Trust

Oases in the desert: The farmers regenerating the landscape in southern Spain

The economy of love

The Story of Umgibe: A farm in a plastic bag

5 reasons why local food matters

Food cycle

Biteback

Nearly 10 million adults and children struggling to afford healthy food

We want the next Government to:

Hold big food companies to higher healthier standards, protecting children.

Ensure all children have access to healthy, nutritious food throughout their school day.

Rebalance the wider food system through new commercial incentives.

Create the right conditions to make high streets healthy.

Explore a ‘net zero’ equivalent target for health and build on successful climate policies

No child left behind

video

sign open letter

Food foundation

Pushed the the brink: The link between food insecurity and mental health

National Trust

Soil association

Worm hunt +

stop pollution killing our rivers

Saving the planet with vegetables

John Muir Trust

12 ways to connect with nature

Black dog outdoors

National Park City Foundation

Celebrate LGBT+ History Month with us!

Heritage Open Days

Habitats & Heritage

Wildfowl + Wetlands Trust

National archives

Events

Black Cultural Archives

Champion, Empower & Disrupt

'Ebony Empowerment': Stories, Workshops & Disco!

Mental health events – to December 2024

Black Futures Month 2024

Activate Collective

Living Streets

LGBTQ+ hidden history walks

Art

for 2 claires

National Portrait Gallery

Sound bath healing

Jupiter Artland

All change art

Arts activism + cultural exchange

Co-op Community Fund and All Change

Collective Arts

Co-Production Collective

Conquest Art

Art Emergency

Art UK

Experience the world through art

Sun, sea, sand and art

public sculptures in UK

Learning and creativity for all

Introducing The Superpower of Looking

64 Million Artists

Poetry is therapy

Solidarity Knows No Borders

story of an object

drawing

imprint

things in common

creating art from things around you

Free resources and training

Your own recipe for change 🍳🍉 🍲

There is an alternative (TIALT)

Street wisdom

Ignite Imaginations – latest news

Tangled feet

The Daily Haiku

Film Oxford

Raindance

Abbianca Makoni – GXNG GIRLS

#inktober52

Otakar Kraus Music Trust

OSO

Beyond GDP what matters to national well- being

What Works Wellbeing

Understanding how agency and control matters for community wellbeing

Belonging and wellbeing through physical activity

Housing and wellbeing: insights from English Housing Survey data

New Zealand Living Standards Framework update and first wellbeing report

Personal power: reframing the locus of control

Social Value UK

Tender

CEASE

Profit before people

In this period of campaigning before the general election , here are our priorities for the new government:

Make pornographic content that sexualises children illegal online, as it already is offline

Make it illegal to possess, produce or host pornography that includes acts that meet the international definition of torture

Introduce regulation to end the trafficking and exploitation that is rife within the pornography industry and which normalises violence against women and girls

Ensure age verification for any site carrying pornographic content is regulated by Ofcom to the standard set out in the Online Safety Act

Introduce the Nordic Model to deter demand for prostitution and support victims of sexual exploitation

Peer Support

CHARM

Restraint reduction network

Cure Mental Health

Essex Mental Health deaths

Parliament debates current toothless inquiry to be a full Statutory Public Inquiry 31 January2023

ESSEX FAMILIES – SUPPORT FROM PARLIAMENT GROWS FOR A STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen declares support for Statutory Public Inquiry in to Essex MH Services

Essex mental health patient deaths probe calls backed by professor

Our Autism scandal

Amy + Dannielle + Lauren + Shaun

NHS mental health services set to face full public inquiry to force staff to give evidence

Failure to 'appropriately assess' girl, 17, contributed to her suicide, coroner says - PETITION

LEADING MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY SANE JOINS CALL FOR STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO ESSEX MH

Essex Mental Health Inquiry: Chair renews push for legal powers decision

Edwige Nsilu: Inquest opens into death of young woman at mental health unit in Basildon, Essex

Essex mental health staff fell asleep on duty, inspection found

Julia + Chris

Not Westminster

15 February 2025

Stir to action

Coop news

Sisters of Frida

Kukunori

Transforming communities for inclusion

Safe place

KEY RING

According to gov uk at least 30% of prisoners have learning difficulties and/or disabilities

Resilience and conflict resolution training workshops

Hub of hope is 4 years’ old

adoddle

Chasing the stigma

The survivors trust

BEAT

ONLINE SUPPORT GROUPS

SELF-HELP + SELF-CARE

Anxiety

Depression

Trauma

Thrive LDN

Healing Justice

including events

Self- injury Support

Beyond Equality

The equality trust

2024 Manifesto

we are the economy

well-being economy now ? - Wendy

British Gas profits rise 10 fold

Thames Water proves the UK is on the wrong path

Enforce Equality Act provisions

making reasonable adjustments to enable more disabled people

(20%+ of the population) to actively participate in local and national politics

A just 2 % global tax on billionaires could raise $242 billion each year !

Stories for change

Who owns the land in the UK + Universal basic income + wealth tax

The Link Between Inequality and the Far Right

American election special: how much impact does inequality have?

Can Scotland's renters beat landlord politicians?

Youth advocates - RECONSTRUCTING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Billionaire Britain

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Ireland must collect €13 billion of back taxes from Apple

TUC Congress votes for wealth taxes; investing in people

UN adopts 'Pact for Future' calls to tax rich, tackle climate, move beyond GDP

we need to talk about racism alongside mental health

Do you have enough money to bribe a politician ?

People with less income pay more for housing + fuel + power

Destitution is Designed into the UK's Migration System

Last Black Friday – Amazon made $9.8BN in 1 day

Intentional Peer Support

Academy of Peer-supported Open Dialogue

Little Village

Soteria

Battersea Befriending Network

Mosaic

Freecycle network

Friends, Families and Travellers

police act 2022 in breach of European convention of human rights

Community catalysts CIC – update

We think this is a pretty brilliant list of enablers of strengths-based working and practice!

Focus on building relationships

Listen more, talk less

Ask meaningful questions

Support people in building their own power and agency

Nurture safe and collaborative spaces

Invest in community-led initiatives and projects

Focus on participatory budgeting

Leverage community connections and local knowledge

Encourage communities to take control

Get involved in informal and fun activities – not just the usual – and go to where people are

Women’s aid

Centre for Mental Health

the power of ordinary

Big ideas for dismantling mental health inequalities

Mental health, nature and gardens: expanding the narrative

How local councils can support better mental health for all

Finding ways to end the toxic impacts of poverty: our first Festival of Ideas event

How can local councils know if their mental health services are working well?

Championing trans and non-binary people's mental health

made in community

Mental health and the climate crisis

Building a mentally healthier nation

A constant battle: exploring the intergenerational consequences of racism in the UK

Men's mental health month

How can we give every child a mentally healthy start in life?

Pursuing racial justice in mental health

Policies for better mental health: the case for a mental health policy test

Voluntary sector partnerships can transform support for people with mental health problems, says new report

A dual crisis: the hidden link between poverty and children's mental health

Mental health figures 2024 – the problems

Mental ill health costs England £300 billion a year

including connecting housing + mental health – Wendy

idea of golden triangle of influence

Data

Lived experience

practice

Good Grief

AtaLoss

Cruse Bereavement Care

Death cafe

Frazzled

Men's shed

shoulder to shoulder

Seniors

Centre for ageing better

Good homes for all: a proposal to fix England's housing

Independent Age

Our research

has found that one in six older renters have less than £100 disposable income a month after their rent

That’s just not enough to live on, and leaving many stressed and anxious about how they’ll pay for the essentials

52% of older people on a low household income were unaware of broadband social tariffs before taking the survey

September 2023

Ending discrimination for older renters

National pensioners convention

Age UK

My Windrush story: justice denied

staying steady

Compassion in Dying

Age UK – RICHMOND runs FREE IT courses +

In common

University of the third age

Democracy

Zarah Sultana

universalism builds solidarity

Gaza

Knife crime evidence based approach

Scrutinising arms exports

Everyone – including young trans people – deserves access to high -quality healthcare

Stop arming Israel

For decades the press and politicians have demonised Muslims and migrants

Clive – Thames Water

Water industry ownership should be decided by citizens’ assembly, new bill says

Sortition Foundation

Our campaign to replace House of Lords with a house of Citizens

Compass

our report reveals voters now have little faith that our political system can address the big challenges of our time:

51% say the system is unable to address the critical issue of climate transition

50% don’t think the system can fix inflation and avoid economic turmoil

63% don’t believe it can help us find a better approach to immigration

63% say our politics is failing on wealth inequality

64% believe the system isn’t able to cope with the housing crisis

But it’s even worse than that:

73% of voters believe the political system mostly serves the rich and the powerful

❌71% say it doesn’t work for ordinary people

63% say it puts too much power in the hands of a small number of swing voters

⌛64% see the system as too short-term

67% judge it as far too London centric

➗64% think the system cannot bring people together and unite the country

Power to the people

After 44 years as a labour member – I spent 18 months facing expulsion – this is what the party got wrong

John + Neal

Old power v New Power ? People before profit ? -Wendy

Citizen control	Degree of citizen power
Delegated power
Partnership
Placation	Degree of tokenism
Consultation
Informing
Therapy	Non participation
manipulation	Non participation

Old power	New power
Currency	Current
Held by few	Made by many
Pushed down	Pulled in
Commanded	Shared
Closed	Open
transaction	relationships

Left Unity

Could you be a Transform candidate?

Why we need a people powered climate policy

Peace + Justice project

Electoral Reform Society

What are the benefits of Citizens’ Assemblies, and should they be used more?

How honourable are honours lists?

Freebies are just the tip of the Iceberg when it comes to money in politics

Welsh government progressive electoral reforms

The Non-Battleground Election: Millions of voters are ignored

Including Liz Truss appointed one peer for every 1.5 days she served as Prime Minister

Trump shows how First Past the Post gives the keys to extremists

First past the post distorts public opinion on small boats

A future Labour government would be right to use Citizens’ Assemblies

Pursuing Parity: Examining Gender Quotas Across Electoral Systems

Only China’s rubber stamping National People’s Congress is larger than the Lords

Single Transferable vote the gold standard for proportional representation

🇮🇪 Ireland’s general election will mark over a century of national elections held using the Single Transferable Vote

Victory as Ceredigion joins Powys and Gwynedd with STV consultation

Local people are best placed to decide the priorities of their local government - but voters in England and Wales have very little impact on who sits in their local council chambers

Four steps to protect our elections from AI interference

What happens when the Lords defeat the Government?

74 councillors in Wales took their seats without a vote being cast

Manifestos outside the two parties: Putting democracy on the agenda

How big donors fund our political parties

The real winner from votes at 16 is democracy

Senedd expansion is a pivotal moment for devolution

Positive statements on restoring the electoral system for Mayors + PCCS

Wales lead the way

devolving power to the people ? - Wendy

The movement forward

Make votes matter

Trust the people

Flatpack Democracy

Open space principles:

Whoever comes are the right people

Whenever it starts is the right time

When it’s over, it’s over

Whatever happens it is the only thing that could happen

Take the jump

Centre for social justice

Trust for London

Could you be a community reporter ? +

Child poverty in London - and how to tackle it

Will the new government lead to a rethink on poverty?

London’s housing crisis is harming its economy

Temporary accommodation nation

Freedom of information act used to obtain this data - Wendy

Millions of Londoners below minimum income standard

including open letter on temporary housing + other amazing stuff – including peer research – Wendy

St.Giles Trust

Debt Justice

WIN: Mozambique secret loans scandal

Debt, colonialism and power

council tax debt making people destitute

Together against debt – The people’s manifesto

7million people across UK struggling to pay bill because of heavy debt

A new form of colonialism ? capitalism up to it’s old tricks ?

Bondholders could make $14 BN from emerging market restructurings

People of the global South have been rendered vulnerable to climate change because of poverty

Discrimination and precarious living conditions are intensified under this ever-rising debt problem

The global financial system is extractivist in essence –

[characterised by] the extraction of human and natural resources for the relentless pursuit of profit and the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels"
Mae Buenaventura, Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development

Marijuana Justice

Unlock democracy

Taxpayers’ alliance

Dealing with HMRC is a famously laborious experience but they’re very aware that while members of the public might not like paying taxes, most of them tend to play by the rules

Sadly, we can’t say the same about our universal credit system

The Public Interest Law Centre recently pointed to an example of a client who had been asked for a “photo of you next to your street sign with your right hand holding it” and a “photo of you holding your local newspaper for the area you live (not a national tabloid paper)

This should be dated the same day as you upload the photo”

Increasing defence spending isn’t a silver bullet

Just five senior defence officials have nest eggs with a combined value of more than £11 million!

Wonder where the background data comes from ? - Wendy

Town halls accused of insulting taxpayer by splashing out £350,000 to send staff to glitzy award dinners

Empty council properties

Town hall rich list 2024

City Hall rich list 2024

Wolverhampton city council planned to hand their chief executive a £36,000 pay rise while cutting services and increasing council tax

NHS Wales splurging £139 K on diversity hire while biomedical scientists earn just 44 K

£44k is not a paltry amount of money ? Could AI be part of the answer if managed ethically ? - Wendy

GP rich list 2024

Could AI be part of the answer ? - Wendy

What a load of rubbish : the number of bins that each UK council collects

Each of us should reduce the amount of rubbish we generate ? composting more ? reducing plastic used ? - Wendy

Public money 'wasted' as Kent County Council lost £2.8m including £63k to care for dead resident

Councils have spent nearly £700,000 paying internet bills for staff working from home since 2019

information obtained using Freedom of information act ? - Wendy

Council tax rises – interactive chart

Councils pay £70000 to social media influencers

How does the State spend £100 of your money?

£80,000 in business class travel

Wasting Monet

MoD bosses living the high life

Council fatcats on the French Riviera

£35k on curtains for the British embassy in Berlin

£2 M on cycling lessons

Environment

Library of things – Twickenham – why buy when you can borrow

Restart project

We need to move beyond recycling

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PASSES LANDMARK CIRCULAR ECONOMY BILL

Think global, fix local

Oliver Franklin - Wallis book wasteland - podcast

Right to repair Europe

Anna + Sandrine + Biljana + Malte + Sara + Sean + Franck

Centre for alternative technology

Energy for all

Fuel poverty action

12 December

Labour's 'cruel' winter fuel payment cut may cost NHS £169m a year - new analysis

Green new deal

Zarah

protest at Labour conference – June 2024

THEY SAY CUTS - WE SAY WEALTH TAX !

GREENS

Request a Tour of the House of Lords

Ella’s law

New Labour MPs take over £45,000 from oil and gas lobbyists

Manifesto 2024

✅A wealth tax on the super rich
✅ Scrap two child benefit cap
✅ Cancel fossil fuel licences including Rosebank
✅ Introduce a carbon tax for polluters
✅ Bring water companies into public ownership
✅ Invest £50 billion in NHS
✅ Create 150,000 new social homes per year

Energy Charter treaty

Make my money matter

Positive money

11 December

How Rachel Reeves can prove she’s not in the pocket of big banks

Defund climate choas

Fancy some people powered research?

Share Action

PENSIONS

Tipping Point

TRAINING

Climate reparations now

What is green colonialism?

Common knowledge

Climate defiance

Stay grounded

Action toolkit

Extinction Rebellion (XR)

12 December

Right to acquit

What young people think ?

Organise a Community Assembly

XR foundation programme

insure our future not fossil fuels

Stop the scramble for Africa

No dogs on a dead planet

Americans spent $147 billion on their pets, but only $1.2 billion was spent on protecting endangered wildlife

Is it the same in the UK ? Many in the UK copy the USA ? For example politicians ? - Wendy

Power Hour for Palestine

12 December(and weekly), 17:00
Join this weekly Climate Justice Power Hour for Palestine

Refurbish, Don’t Demolish

Methane Emissions From Dairy and Meat

Paid to pollute campaign

The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill

Empathy Cafe: our feelings and the future

Share the petition & help prevent a tidal wave of plastic pollution

The story of plastic

TAKE THE BIOPLASTICS QUIZ

Burning Injustice

Climate racism

uncovering fact vs fiction on coca-cola iconic bottle

The story of broke

less stuff, more joy!

The Story of Stuff Project - Nestlé's Troubled Waters

The story of solutions

Global Citizens or Mass Consumers?

The world we need

Friends of the Earth

Quiz – winter in conflict zones – TO DECEMBER

Soy beans

The Climate coalition

12 December

Climate change committee

War on want

We demand the next UK government takes action to:

End poverty and inequality

Lead ambitious action on the climate crisis

Support the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice

Defend human rights and democracy

Respect workers

Exposed: UK Arms used in Israel's Attack

COP28

Sri Lanka land grab

Asad

no UK arms for Israel's war crimes

UK - ISRAEL MILITARY EXPORTS £474 MILLIONS SINCE 2025 – PETITION

Fossil fuel pesticides are on our plates

Oxfam

These are the priorities we think our newly elected government must tackle:

Prioritise a safer world, including an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza

Ensure fast and fair action to support people hit hardest by the climate crisis

Support a global economic system that prioritises people and planet

Build a fairer and more caring UK economy that values paid and unpaid carers

Record temperatures – and record profits for polluters

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

Oxfam: Israel Has Reduced Water Access in Gaza by 94 Percent Since October

Tax luxury transport now

What’s conflict got to do with climate ?

Make rich polluters pay

World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people

Save the children

sign open letter

GREENPEACE

Fare Britannia: a new approach to public transport ticketing for the UK

TOXIC INFLUENCE:THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE

The Truth About Britain’s Allotment Waiting List

Naho

Fatima + Fauziya

shell

Shell must clean up its mess

Total Energies is sponsoring the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)

while causing devastation to communities and landscapes across Africa

unearthed

Positive news - Single-use plastic banned in Lagos

Inside a climate justice case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

35 Greenpeace activists ARRESTED- Dove - Unilver - 5 September

Africa is drowning in fast fashion textile waste

No subsides for burning trees – AXE DRAX

Possible

Solar train

Great news - ULEZ is working!

Fixing Factory

Power for People

Local Electricity Bill

City to sea

91% of plastic waste never gets recycled

Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme

the reuse manifesto :-

introduce a cap + reduction on UK plastic production

support a legally binding global plastics treaty

roll out extended producer responsibility (EPR)

completely ban single – use packaging

introduce an “all in” deposit scheme

set ambitious + legally binding targets

Marine Conservation Society

Making polluters pay

Delivering more space for nature

Putting a right to a healthy environment in law

Ensuring fair and effective climate action

Ecohustler

Sustain – campaigning

Trailblazers in children's food: five areas ensuring school food for all

LGBTQ+ food projects in London

Transforming young lives through the magic of school gardens

free school meals – how other countries do it

Many countries around the world are expanding their school meal programmes, with countries including India, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and 8 US states now providing universal school meals

Our friends at School Food Matters have taken a look at Sweden's universal school meals programme, delve into Japan's acclaimed school food and also talk to Prof Rebecca O'Connell at the University of Hertfordshire on what England could learn from Portugal's school meal system

VEG CITIES

Roots to work

Campaign for preservation of rural England (CPRE)

star count 2024

The hidden homelessness crisis

Using rooftops for solar - moronic and absolute nonsense?

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

As much energy as 10 new nuclear power stations – PETITION

QUIZ – do you know the true power of rooftop solar?

Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, analysis shows

can the next governmment think outside the box on land use ?

A Q&A with Charles from the Lune Valley Community Land Trust

Autumn for all

Affordable - accessible + sustainable housing is essential for a decent life

Coal Action Network – Adani coal mine – ACTION

Badwas

Fancy some people powered research?

Campaign for Better Transport

black boot trophy

How far could £2 get you?

Including cut on tax for domestic flights which will lose £130 M in lost revenue in a year ? - Wendy

End War + Global Justice

World beyond war

14 December

The dangers of worshipping warriors – 8 - 29 January

Sum of Us – EKO

Behind the label

quiz

Open secret : wherever fashion goes exploitation follows

Zara - pay garment workers now !

tell Zara:stop profiting from Uyghur forced labour

Inside Italy’s designer bag sweatshops

Amos Trust

BDS Movement

The BDS movement calls for maximizing grassroots and civil society pressure on all states, the United Nations, and regional bodies:

Impose a comprehensive military embargo on Israel, including the export, import and transfer of weapons, military equipment, and dual use items, as well as military training, joint research, investments, etc.).

Impose lawful targeted sanctions against Israel including diplomatic, economic, financial, academic, cultural, and sports.

End all other forms of complicity in Israel’s illegal military occupation, its system of apartheid, and its ever more brutal Gaza genocide.

Re-activate the UN Special Committee against Apartheid to help dismantle Israel’s regime of apartheid and hold those responsible accountable.

Suspend Israel from the UN, just as was done with apartheid South Africa.

Suspend Israel from the Olympics, FIFA, and all such international and regional

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Who is bankrolling Israeli war crimes ?

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

1 in 5 Palestinian civil society organizations are not on social media

7amleh Documents 10 Million Instances of Violent Content in Hebrew Throughout the Year 2023

7amleh Launches Arabic Violence Indicator – July 2024

ONE

Mandela

tree growing

malaria vaccine

Where does poverty really come from?

Did you know that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women?

Trade Transformed

Global Justice Now

For election 4 July - During the election we’re going to push all politicians on the issues we care about most:

A radical green transition which phases out the fossil fuel industry in a just and equitable manner

An end to British complicity in Israel’s war crimes

A new approach to the global south, repairing the damage done by vaccine apartheid and hijacked aid spending

A humane way of supporting refugees, recognising that so many people are fleeing situations which British foreign policy has exacerbate

teach in on Palestine

Big pharma has extracted £12 billion from the NHS. And still they want more

Pharmanomics

How billionaires get away with it – Davos

£22 billion for Shell. And for the rest of us?

Ending of fossil fuel – what next ?

these women give us courage

The Secret World of Investor Courts

Did you become a billionaire last year?

Communities in the Niger Delta are trying to make Shell pay

Fossil fuel treaty

UK could be liable for Israeli war crimes

Glasgow Council backs a Fossil Fuel Treaty! Could your council be next?

We own it

9 December

No bail out for Thames Water

White helmets - Syria

Campaign against the arms trade (CAAT)

NEWS

Solidarity with Yemen

Solidarity With Yemen Campaign

Warton's War on Yemen

Syria – arms sales to dictators , displacement + militarised borders

Arms sales back on trial - PLEASE SHARE

Defund Military – ACTION

Tanks Out of Twickenham and a Secret Court Case

Ukraine + update

The UK’s hidden arms sales

CAAT’s research revealed that the aid workers Israel killed in Gaza were murdered by a drone made by Elbit Systems with an engine based on UK technology

FILM – Do not buy a bomb

But will ISDS come into play here ? Wellbeing economy now ! - Wendy

Barclays Bank: new report on links to weaponry used in Gaza

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) at 50 : adapting resistance to a changing world

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

The truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki

18 December

Spending on Britain's nuclear weapons is skyrocketing

Stop the war coalition

DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO: WHO ARE THE POLICE PROTECTING BY ARRESTING A 12-YEAR OLD AND A DISABLED ACTIVIST?

Ceasefire Now!

Stop the arms race

Do not suffocate the truth

Behind the sun

Falun Gong

Free Tibet

MPOWER

Jewish voice for peace

The Pegasus effect

Five principles for dismantling antisemitism

Do not isolate antisemitism from other forms of oppression
Challenge political ideologies that promote racism, hate, and fear
Create environments that affirm and celebrate all expressions of cultural and religious life

Make undoing all forms of racism and bigotry both policy and daily practice

Refuser Solidarity Network

Shahar + Einat + Evyatar + Nave

Maya

No hiding behind war profiteering: demand an arms embargo now

I am not the problem

I have never left my country nor have I ceded any part of it

Nobody has entered into a treaty or talked to me about who I am

I am Arrernte Alyawarre female elder from this country

Please remember that

I am not the problem

Stop the wall

Free them all

More alternative information sources

Freedom News

Tortoise

IN FRANCE

The NFP - launched on 10 June2024 is dominated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed (LFI)

Also includes the more moderate Socialists, Greens and Communists.

Mélenchon was the first to react to the results last night, calling on Macron to invite the NFP to govern

Its programme includes:

reversing Macron’s controversial reforms that raised the pension age from 62 to 64

raising the minimum wage by 13 per cent

freezing energy prices

bringing back a wealth tax

The NFP has also pledged to “immediately recognise” a Palestinian state

Le Pen insisted that far-right victory in France “has been merely delayed”

Her party secured 89 seats in 2022 - that number has now almost doubled

The presidential election is due in 2027

Thugs, protesters and the law

How fossil fuel producers hit the World Bank’s jackpot

Children for profit

Putin’s murders – podcast

Fortress Europe isn’t working

Asylum spending

Farage’s £98,000 a month

The Sacklers: Getting away with it

The Good Soldier: Killings and cover-up in Afghanistan

Sick parade: a crisis at Catterick Garrison

Bukayo Saka: footballer targeted by racist abuse after Euro final

Why Hadley Duvall became a voice of the Harris campaign

Jobs for Labour’s pals

a west bank warlord

the global AI index 2024

Robert Jenrick: questions about another £25,000 for Tory leadership contender

Ghost tankers - John - funding Putin’s war in Ukraine

Cash-strapped councils – October 2024

London’s 33 local authorities are expected to overspend by more than £600 million this year

The London Councils group says more than a third will go towards housing more than 175,000 people currently living in temporary accommodation

As a result, boroughs are making cuts elsewhere

Havering, Enfield and Newham are in particularly poor financial health and all face budget gaps of between £20-32 million

Enfield Council is considering closing eight libraries, while Newham may cut funding for Christmas lights and remove free tea and coffee for office staff

“It’s the outer London boroughs that are falling over the cliff first,” Bromley councillor Colin Smith told the BBC

“Some have gone already,” he said, referring to Croydon’s bankruptcy four years ago

A total of 19 UK local authorities have requested “exceptional” financial support from the government this year

That includes a £1.2 billion bailout for Birmingham council

This one is for the Mums + Dads

Justin Welby is first Anglican leader to resign in church’s history

Children locked away: Troubled 14 year-old let down – again

What’s wrong with democracy ?

Peers speak on net zero without declaring fossil fuel shareholdings

Disapeering act: some peers hide foreign earnings by going on leave

House of Lords – some peers claim £400,000 for little discernible work

Peers’ shareholding revealed

The Westminster Accounts

More than £700 M in public funds spent on scrapped Rwanda scheme

France – Israel + the ICC

Georgia: echoes of Ukraine

Another billionaire another lose for the people ? – Wendy

Ozempic: nice work for Novo

This is how Bad Pharma – please see Ben Goldacre’s book – operates within the Mental Health system – with devastating consequences - Wendy

Rest of world

‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city

Belling Cat

Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict

Lake Alice Psychiatric hospital

Can anyone defend this ?

Yet ECT is still done worldwide + in the UK –please see website for further details

Why do people turn a “blind” eye + say they can do nothing ?

for example Health + well being board + Integrated care board

Does that makes them complicit in the crime?

Wendy

geoguessr

The Bureau of investigative Journalism

People’s Newsroom Community

Made in Bury

Welsh Inclusive Journalism Network

The Sunshine Millionaire: How one man took £130m from British taxpayers

Britain’s evicted kids : dispatches

Private spies: trained by the British state, working for autocracies

The strawberries you eat are picked by exploited workers

“Italian” purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes

Supermarkets STILL stocking pineapples linked to killings

Tax dodgers can continue getting away scot-free

Santander's billion-dollar oil deal – despite green pledge

How Qatar hacked the world cup

Trans+ Voices

Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse

How Russia’s hungry surveillance machine is fed

Voter ID laws blocking access to polls for trans+ people

Thousands of care workers risk deportation after employers breach rules

Russian dark money is flowing through Europe

Investor brands Barclays as "totally dishonest"

How we investigated the Facebook network run by Reform UK candidates

Undercover investigation reveals UK political parties accepting illegal donations

Kazakh ex-dictator used UK company to help protect his $8 billion business empire

Protesters face huge costs – for protests they never attended

how Russia spreads fake news in the Balkans

The UK’s largest law firm tried to reclaim £2,500 from climate protesters for preparing a document that listed its own fees

Big banks funding an oil company in crisis

Profiteers are exploiting US conspiracies and hate to make millions

Ex-Trump official + abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

Bullying, threats and union-busting: Amazon swings union recognition vote by the narrowest of margins – but this isn’t over

‘Greenwashing’ banks raised 1 trillion dollars for fossil fuel giants

The law needs to change to protect people speaking out for transparency

Taxwatch

NewsGuard

Revoke

Centre for women’s justice

International Planned Parenthood Federation

Poland: Acquittal of women's rights defenders a relief, but the trial was unjust

corporation watch

heat the rich

New Internationalist

Nothing is fair in war

10 STEPS TO WORLD PEACE

Who’s backing Glencore’s toxic mining?

We need to ‘transition’ away from capitalism

Getting a grip on climate capitalism

Could Uganda’s anti-gay law be overturned?

Pressure from the grassroots

the case for public ownership

all eyes on Uganda court

10 Steps to World Peace

How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

Turning crisis into justice

Either we move beyond capitalism, or we die

South Africa: 30 years later

When will the Sahrawi people get self-determination?

How renewables corporations are exploiting the Global South

A frightening future for Palestinians

'We are as much Indians as everybody else'

Giorgia Meloni’s canny game

No bombs from Brighton

Turning people power into political might

'The poppy trade sustained the British empire'

Weapons made on my doorstep are helping to kill people in Gaza

Should religion play a role in politics?

WHAT IF... WE WORKED LESS?

COUNTRY PROFILE: GEORGIA

‘Just because people are poor it doesn’t take away their human dignity’

No love for Modi in the Indian Himalayas

what if we banned billionaires ?

ABORTION: WHY IS MY BODY STILL A BATTLEGROUND?

BIG OIL IS BANKROLLING THE UK’S ELECTION

It's time to hold Big Tech accountable for violence in the DRC

Gambia tries (and fails) to bring back FGM

Dismantling dictatorship

the empire never sleeps

Kashmir's unlikely electoral candidates

Is the UN fit for purpose ?

Entering the matrix of misinformation

Beyond Apartheid: The case for a one-state solution

Nanjala - Entering the matrix of misinformation

The fascist face of neoliberalism

Freedom Press

Novara Media

Ash + Ingrid

Michael + Ash

People won’t care about Democracy if democracy doesn’t care about them

1% of people in UK own 50% of land in UK

Common Dreams

Morning Star

Double Down news

Boris Johnson was able to rise because of powerful anti-democratic forces

The other 9/11: how to make a nation scream

The oligarch that took over Britain

Lindsey + Tony

Former British Soldier EXPOSES King Charles

Gary Younge on Race, Racism & Identity

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel’s plan to starve 2 million people

we are live-streaming a genocide

Andrew

Paul

Keir Starmer’s hollow victory

Former British Soldier EXPOSES UK Riots

A classic case study in misinformation

Megaphone

Left foot forward

Time for a universal basic income

More people in UK support universal basic income than oppose it

Universal Basic Income trialled in England for first time

‘Affordable universal benefits are still possible – just look at Wales’

Anger at record profits

The right-wing takeover of Britain’s media

Khan sets out plan to provide universal free primary school meals next year

London Renter Left Homeless After Black Mould Complaints Go Unanswered for Years

Largest four-day working week trial shows it has been a huge success for businesses and workers

Workers to get right to request four-day week under Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul

Time to freeze rents?

Who funds the Reform UK party?

Five Politically-Connected Healthcare Giants Rake in NHS Contracts Worth Billions

Biggest Tory donor said that Diane Abbott ‘should be shot’

Government spends more than £1 million of UK taxpayer money to advertise on GB News

The future of Britain's water companies …

a ‘historic’ opportunity to reverse 14 years of NHS privatisation in their first term

Andy Burnham’s manifesto – Housing first – Mbacc – Live Well

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has called for corporate manslaughter charges for Whitehall departments over the infected blood scandal

Andy Burnham calls for housing to be placed top of the list on hierarchy of public spending

Andy Burnham makes the case for devolving benefits system to a local level, in radical overhaul

A record 145,800 children are now homeless in England – MAY 2024

David Cameron slammed for ‘swanning around’ in £42m luxury jet as Tories prepare to slash sickness benefits

The number of English households living in temporary accommodation more than doubling between 2010 and 2023 from 48,000 to 112,000 - the highest figure since records began

The Labour government commitments – 17 July 2024

Prince William’s was paid as the Duke of Cornwall £23.6 million ($30.4 million) for the 2023-2024 financial year

Southport Violence: ‘We All Need To Consider Our Role in the Wild West of Social Media Hypercriminality’

Disabled children’s charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks

How can we tackle the UK's dirty money problem?

why the UK’s regulatory system is an expensive farce

It’s time for the UK to introduce a wealth tax

James Cleverly spent £655 per head on in-flight catering for day trip to Rwanda

5 takeaways from budget – NOVEMBER 2024

Making the case for proportional representation against the backdrop of a growing far-right

Disaster Capitalism

Access capitalism

Hope not hate

Inside the Eugenics revival

Exposing the far right

Exit Hate

The Conversation

Logical thinking, curiosity, evidence-based decision making and fresh perspectives are all benefits brought by neurodiversity

Dyslexia can actually be an advantage for university researchers

How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health

England’s rural housing crisis could be solved by fixing land prices and bringing land into public ownership

We gave $7,500 to people experiencing homelessness — here’s what happened next

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’

Five signs that you might be rightwing

How rightwing beliefs shape your view of the past – while leftwingers look to the future

Six ways companies fuel violence

Middle-aged radicalisation: why are so many of Britain’s rioters in their 40s and 50s?

The new politics of blame: why Donald Trump craves your rage – and three ways to resist the game

Argentina’s anti-government protests offer a lesson for the international struggle against the rise of the far right

Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression

Mexico is suing US gun-makers for arming its gangs − and a US court could award billions in damages

Germany decriminalised cannabis: why the UK should consider doing the same

Five disinformation tactics Russia is using to try to influence the US election

The Last Word: ‘painfully poignant’ play gives a voice to women silenced by Russia’s legal system

How subtle forms of misinformation affect what we buy and how much we trust brands

The free trade myth: how the US manipulates global markets for economic supremacy

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet

British jails are at a breaking point – here’s how the Dutch halved their prison population

COVID caused cancer tumours to shrink in mice

Court rules that patients have a right to disbelieve doctors

Nazi doctors weren’t just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won’t help guard against future medical abuses

Or current medical abuse – listen to the people - stop Electro convulsive treatment now – Wendy

Who's Your Herstory Heroine? Nollaig na mBan

How a scandal over sanitary pads is shaping feminist activism in China

Remembering Wallace J. Nichols: the blue mind scientist who explained our human connection to water

Irish referendum: how the Catholic church shaped Ireland’s constitution to define the status of women

The millions of people not looking for work in the UK may be prioritising education, health and freedom

One in three domestic abuse victims is male – here’s why we need to talk about them

Five tips on talking politics with family without falling out – from a conflict resolution expert

Three ways to get your nature fix without a garden

Simply looking at greenery can boost mental health

You don’t need a doctor to get more physically active – here are 10 simple steps you can take by yourself

Do you have knee pain from osteoarthritis? You might not need surgery. Here’s what to try instead

Why eating seaweed might help prevent Parkinson’s disease

Slavery stole Africans’ ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this

Kenya at 60: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up

What makes an Italian? An olympic gold medal and a vandalised mural reopen debate about race andcitizenship

Why London’s new slavery memorial is so important: ‘The past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present’

Capital gains: Sunak and Starmer’s tax bills show how the system benefits the rich

Vulture Capitalism: Grace Blakeley’s new book is smart on what has gone wrong since the 1980s

New house prices are rising rapidly despite a flat market – we need to diversify what we build and who builds it

Demolishing buildings is bad for the planet – here’s an alternative

The leading alternative to GDP is languishing over a technical disagreement – with grave potential consequences

Why you’re less likely to get rich these days if your parents aren’t already wealthy

time for community land trusts ? + an end to wealth supremacy ? - Wendy

How preventive healthcare could save the NHS – lessons from Finland, Japan and Singapore

Or us ? Or New local ? - Wendy

What my undercover investigations at arms fairs reveal about how the west supports military dictatorships

Inside the global arms industry: what a secretive London trade fair reveals about international weapons sales

‘Gun control is dead and we killed it’: unmasking the ‘lonely incel’ who designed the world’s most popular 3D-printed firearm

Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling

Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric

Hemp is more sustainable than timber – here’s how it could transform low-carbon construction

South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

The killing of Hassan Nasrallah and how the west legitimised its use of assassination

Echos of Mohammad Mosaddegh?

Gordon Brown wants £3 billion for the ‘austerity generation’. But the UK needs a more enduring solution

The true class divide in British politics is not which party people choose but whether they vote at all

An end to elitist politician that do not serve the people ? - an end to confrontational politics ? people assemblies ? - Wendy

We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Is this why we need People assemblies NOW ! - Wendy

School absence rates have rocketed – the whole educational experience needs to change

As per Ken Robinson’s work ? - Wendy

We don’t know whether most medical treatments work, and we know even less about whether they cause harm

Millions take antidepressants for chronic pain – but there’s little evidence the most commonly prescribed drugs work

Could many dementia cases actually be liver disease?

Can Alzheimer’s really be reversed, as a new documentary claims?

With airstrikes on Houthi rebels, are the US and UK playing fast and loose with international law?

Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant today

Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to extend euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness

This is why the idea of mental “illness” is so dangerous – Wendy

Bad Science Watch Update

Truthout

Cops Attack Antiwar Protesters Outside International Arms Expo in Australia

UK Uses Terrorism Law to Silence Palestine Solidarity Activists and Journalists

California Sues ExxonMobil for Deceiving Public About Recycling Plastics

Study Finds Wealth Tax, Oil Subsidy Phaseout Could Generate $5T for Climate

Kansas City Tenants Launch National Rent Strike to Demand Federal Rent Cap

Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing

Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel

Kamala Harris: “We Need to Legalize” Recreational Marijuana Use

Minister Says Hezbollah Head Agreed to Ceasefire Hours Before Israel Killed Him

Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival

Housing activists in Spain occupy vacant bank-owned buildings + halt evictions

The 10 Richest People’s Wealth Increased by $64 Billion the Day After Trump Win

Pentagon’s Budget Is Nearly $1 Trillion. It’s Now Failed 7 Audits in a Row

Jewish Anti-Zionist Activist Describes His Arrest Under UK’s Anti-Terror Law

These Billionaires subsidize the Israeli military through a US non profit

YES!

The healing power of film

Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does

How Healing Circles Create Space forChange

Social Media for the Revolution

A New Hollywood “Origin” Story

Serj Tankian Says “Down With the System”

Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t

How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier

How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power

Dragon fruit

understanding project 2025’s threat to democracy

Can Connection Be the Cure for What Ails Us?

Rooting for Black Land Ownership

Soyna

Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp

“political violence” from RNC to Gaza

What’s Next for Bangladesh’s Student-Led Revolution?

Confronting Caste

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