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Author Archives: Helen Jones
So, you thought you were Middle Class eh?!
The reality is that many of us who thought we had dug our way up and out of poverty are now only a few pay checks away from despair. We might be okay until the council tax bill comes in, … Continue reading
I’ve got the International Women’s Day blues!
International women’s day is all about celebrating women, yes? We hold up those brilliant examples of women who broke the glass ceiling, invented things that change our lives, or spoke up when it was hard to do so. And that … Continue reading
On what we monitor
Why are we monitoring the identities of excluded people rather than systemic behaviours of racialisation, exclusion and stigmatisation? Continue reading
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Tagged BAME, excluded, GRT, labels, monitoring, racialised, stigma, stigmatised
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bag
The border guard ripped one of the bags, not maliciously, it was just packed so tight and was so heavy that the cloth easily gave. The other larger bag was pushed so hard under the bunk in the van that … Continue reading
Charriddee
I wanted to talk about my experience and response to doing ‘charity’. As part of a previous job I was directed to deliver ‘charity’ from a religious organisation to families I came across. This charity gift amounted to £10 for … Continue reading
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Tagged ABCD, asset based community development, charity, coproduction, power, respect
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The Truth about having Two Heads
Let’s be honest, like millions of us in the UK, the last few years I’ve been scrolling social media and bingeing box sets, sort of zoomed out of mainstream telly. Since Covid-19 however, I’ve been watching BBC news. It’s weirdly … Continue reading
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Tagged #AfterDispatches #Ch4Dispatches #TruthaboutTravellerCrime, lockdown, Royals, William, zoom
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Crisis in Commissioning, or, “Why are you throwing our money down the toilet?”
Lloyds Bank Foundation recently published an important national report on the impact of so called ‘commissioning’ on small and medium sized civil society organisations. I can’t say I read the report with any great surprise because it confirmed what experience tells us … Continue reading
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Packing
Going to Poland in August 2019. No idea if we are going to be rained on or heat-struck, or both. Packing seemed difficult. I decided to go for everything in black and white so everything matches everything else. Shoes? A … Continue reading
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Where house
There is a warehouse, location undisclosed, where humans work, collaborate and live together without financial reward, but with food and a roof over their heads. From where they venture on missions of help, and welcome offered help on behalf of a greater good than themselves. Continue reading
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