Happy to chat with any founders considering a #socialinvestment route; especially if that’s very new territory for you.

I love our charity ❤️House of Imagination ! We have a big heart & a wide reach across the world. We are looking for a new Executive Director as I step aside to focus on research Bath Spa University ForestofImagination® + all our amazing projects! Please share widely! ❤️ houseofimagination.org/opportunities/

Hi Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸! Loving your talk on #PracticeAsResearch. Intrigued by stuff just now about pain & knowledge and Spinoza; may be very pertinent to my phd in cocreation of social purpose advertising with kids. Lots of lived experience stuff there. Can you point me to refs pls?

My briefing on retraumatisation caused by containing people on barges after deadly sea crossings: - they may never have experienced open water before crossing - they're now terrified of water - they probably can't swim Pls DM me your email if you'd like a copy #NoFloatingPrisons

Another reason why it’s in everybody’s interests to ensure all our children are properly fed. People who blame parents living in poverty seem blind to the fact that we live in a society, and that we all benefit from children growing up healthy and secure. #FreeSchoolMeals

For #LonelinessAwarenessWeek I’m sharing this, which I co-created (strategy, idea, production) last spring and summer with effervescent and a bunch of incredible young people who experience #loneliness. #coproduction #codesign #CreativeDirector youtu.be/FcpVUl_kRXs

I’ve recently moved to London and I’d love to find a really friendly and busy #cowork space for creatives and social entrepreneurs. Can my Twitter friends recommend somewhere? Extra points if within 20 minutes walk of Kings Cross St Pancras x

Do you remember our yellow socks? During the first few years of the campaign we asked everyone to wear yellow socks to show they cared about youth loneliness. Did you wear your yellow socks? Tag us in your pictures to help us show youth loneliness still matters.

So proud of this campaign. Five years, hundreds of young co-producers working on strategy, creative, production and launch, and reach to about 28m people with 70%+ target audiences saying the campaign was helpful for them. The power of collaborative imagination and insight.

Grandma: what job do you do at the moment, darling? Me: I’m a dancer (does a twirl) Grandma: oh lovely, like in a gentlemen’s club? Me: … Reader, I was a ballerina. I’d spent years in training. Nobody in my family realised it was an actual career. #WorkingClassArtist

After nearly twenty wonderful, gruelling, beautiful years, we are stopping. Thank you to all our clients, funders, and coproducers over the years. Our legacy is incredible. I’ll be writing a book and developing cocreation training once I’ve had a Bit Of A Lie Down over summer

And the impact of this on kids: * unable to concentrate because hungry & malnourished * unable to sleep because hungry, anxious, trying to plan ways out of poverty * constantly worrying about parents wellbeing & mood * caring responsibilities because parents work all hours

This is so important, and one of the key reasons my PhD focuses on developing a methodological toolkit for co-creating health-related ad campaigns with children and teenagers. #cocreation #codesign #CollectiveImagination

And we should be platforming and resourcing their voices!

Do you have experience in project management, fundraising, or being an assistant and thought about producing films? Applications for our Producer Lab are now open, open to early-career producers based in the south west. 🤩 Apply and find out more here. bit.ly/3pRyOJO

🙌English Literature Degree …also a Youth and Community Development Degree …and a Masters in Advertising …currently writing a PhD thesis in Communication and Media I’m their nightmare.

This is so important, and very reminiscent of the old “product v process” debates in 1990s community arts discourse. Eventually it became accepted that these weren’t in opposition but in fact, utterly entangled.

Stoked to be invited to talk about cocreating social purpose advertising with teenagers at magnify.conference this autumn. I’ll be discussing the uses of enchantment, play & collective imagination to develop insight, strategy, & creative ideas for a campaign about sharing nude images