Empowering Futures

An innovative project which remains person centred and person led. Helping the most vulnerable succeed.

[Empowering Futures @Empoweringfut1]

I've pledged my support for this great project – have you? Check it out https://t.co/z586l9G4rg

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@ClaireforTAY Well done and the first of many

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@CHazelgroveMP Well done

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@ClaireforTAY So proud of your achievement

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@katemacrae Tuberous Comfrey according to my app

[Contact @contactfamilies]

Councils wasted £60m on failed EHCP court disputes against parent carers at England’s SEND Tribunal in 2020-21, a new report by @DCPcampaign and @ProBonoEcon found.

This money could have funded nearly 10,000 more places in SEN units for disabled children:
https://t.co/uKtynEM81m

[Bristol Energy Coop @briznrg]

Last year we were delighted to support @Empoweringfut1 via our Megawatt Community Energy Fund.

Empowering Futures offer people with additional needs the space to reconnect with nature. They've now transformed 2 acres of a former horse paddock into a thriving biodiversity hub!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

And the Oscar goes to.. 😂

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😀CHILDRENS FORESTRY SCHOOL😀 Bookings Now Live!

We are excited to announce that bookings are open for Forestry School!

https://t.co/uIXZAZDwiv

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Empowering Futures @Empoweringfut1]

@adamfare1996 so very very true - its shameful to the point of complete absurdity!

[Contact @contactfamilies]

THIS! Nobody understands parent carers better than other parent carers themselves 🙌

That’s why they are the ones offering advice and support to families through our free Listening Ear service.

Book a call with them: https://t.co/89K3UORbTp

[Bristol Energy Coop @briznrg]

One of the grant recipients from last year’s round was @Empoweringfut1.

When Lizzie Horn visited its care farm, being out in the fresh air, in a safe environment with support, did her “so much good”, she said.

[Bristol Energy Coop @briznrg]

@Empoweringfut1 “I am a wheelchair user with multiple serious health conditions, and for me, as many others, it is difficult to access outdoor spaces, support, and animal therapy.”

We are really proud to be supporting amazing work like this.

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@ClaireforTAY Time for change - welcome and congratulations

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@HollytheOT extremely interested in reading CAMHS reply

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would be extremely interested in reading any reply

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@IanBoulton Change??????

[Future Roots @FutureRootsNet]

Difficult for children who have no food, Heating, mould on walls to understand why anyone is striking. Every strike is about funding our wealthy lifestyle, looking at what bankers and government get makes everyone think they deserve more, I know whose wages I would cut

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

1996, I left care and found myself in a bedsit. My first Christmas Day I had a Pot Noodle on my own. Fast forward 30 years and young people leaving care are doing the same. How can we let this happen? Children in care are still children.

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@FutureRootsNet Thats wonderful news - must come and see you again this year. Updates all round