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How do you improve Fridays? By recording an episode of #BBCTheConversation! As I said to @NJaneyT, it really is a great way to end the week! now we’re on YouTube too!
This was taken by our Studio Director just before we recorded a prog on service dogs and their incredible work!
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
Our founder, Kate Allen, sat down with the BBC to share her incredible journey - from being a student to designing a prosthetic that grows with children 🙌✨
🎧 Tune in to the podcast to hear more! Link in bio 🔗💙
#ExpHandProsthetics #BBCTheConversation
I’ve kept a diary ever since I was 14. It’s been a pretty big mainstay of my life so I always knew I wanted to do a #BBCTheConversation on this!
This week, we recorded a love & fun filled episode with @diaryofa9jagirl @sophiedukebox for the New Year!
@ElenaAthena_ @NJaneyT
“A decent home is the foundation stone of everyone’s life.” Absolutely.
The reference to Finland almost eradicating homelessness through their ‘Housing First’ ethos is apt!
We interviewed @SaijaTurunen about this on #BBCTheConversation on the @bbcworldservice earlier this year
. I’m sorry but EVERY TIME I read an article like this (this is on the BBC news app) I have my head in my hands. The content is exactly the same that we’ve all read in so many articles on homelessness and the housing crisis in the last 30 years! The issue isn’t just about ‘rough sleepers’ it’s about a much deeper and very painful HOUSING CRISIS.
We are banging the same drum to the same beat but doing NOTHING RADICAL TO FIX THE BIG HOUSING PROBLEMS! Temporary accommodation is NOT the answer!Private rental accommodation is NOT the answer! WE NEED TO BUILD MORE SOCIAL HOUSING IN EVERY TOWN AND CITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY because people desperately need long-term, safe, stable and secure housing for social rent. We need to reform or end Right to Buy. We need to have a cross-party agreement that the country will build a minimum of 100,000 HOMES FOR SOCIAL RENT PER YEAR FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS to replenish the social housing stock that has been lost.
Councils desperately want to build more social housing. But an unsustainable financial model from central government makes this virtually impossible.
For anyone passionate about social housing I recommend you read a brilliant report called ‘SECURING THE FUTURE OF COUNCIL HOUSING’ - An Interim Report - July 2024 - Commissioned by Southwark Council - (CLICK ON THE LINK IN MY BIO FOR THE REPORT) - and supported by 19 other major councils across the country. It has detailed and practical recommendations for achieving 5 key solutions:
1.Establish a new and fair HRA (Housing Revenue Account) model.
2.Reform unsustainable RIGHT TO BUY policies. You can’t sell off council housing stock and not replace it!
3.Remove red tape on the ‘Affordable Homes Programme’ and other funds
4.Announce a Green & Decent Homes Programme
https://t.co/xMPqCIbOPx the completion of new council homes
And if anyone says “the country can’t afford that” it’s simply not true!
The government’s own analysis is that social rented housing has an average benefit:cost ratio of 3.4. Research suggests that funding the construction of just 90,000 new social rent homes could add £51.2bn to the economy, create 140,000 jobs, generate massive savings on housing benefit, REDUCE HOMELESSNESS, increase employment in the NHS, Police, Education and other public services because there will be a genuinely affordable housing provision. Ending the housing crisis is an investment that will benefit Britain!
Just look at Finland! They’ve virtually ended homelessness through a radical programme:
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the “Housing First” concept. Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counselling – without any preconditions.”
ENDING HOMELESSNESS is actually better for the country in every respect (financial, health, mental health, education, well-being) than HAVING HOMELESSNESS, which comes at a huge cost. And of course it is life-changing for those who are living on the streets or stuck in temporary accommodation.
BUT WE NEED RADICAL ACTION FROM GOVERNMENT otherwise it’s the same boring headlines over and over again, that we’ve seen repeated for so many years, while we see the housing crisis get worse by the day.
If it really is ‘TIME FOR CHANGE’ then let’s get on with it
I realise the current government have not been in power long, but I pray they come up with a long-term, radical strategy to end the housing crisis and end homelessness. It will transform the lives of millions of people and it will benefit so many aspects of the country. And without a safe, secure, stable and genuinely affordable roof over your head, everything else in life becomes a battle. A decent home is the foundation stone of everyone’s life.
@AngelaRayner
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#CouncilHouseScandal #HousingCrisis #EnoughisEnough #CouncilHouse #Shelter #AffordabilityCrisis #Housing #Britain #HousingMinister #TimeForChange #HousingFirst #SocialHousing #EndHomelessness #EndHousingCrisis
My conversation with @Datshiane on @bbcworldservice #BBCtheconversation has gone live! Listen to yours truly and the incredible @wumanpipa talking about our connections to our instruments here https://t.co/yBTPqjSTbW
Our #BBCTheConversation is made Today’s Choice and Pick of the Week in the @radiotimes and @guardian!
I chat to Prof @sophiescott and Dr Disa Sauter about the importance of laughter…even rats do it!
All thanks to our fab producer @erjnaylor!
Out on Monday
@bbcworldservice
In this clip, @Olia_Hercules and @jcniala speak movingly on the sustenance of nature - and how sunflowers in particular gave strength to cope with the war in Ukraine and build bonds after post election violence in Nairobi.
Produced by the wonderful @NJaneyT
#BBCTheConversation
This week I spoke to @jcniala and @Olia_Hercules on the joyful rewards of plunging your hands into the earth and growing from it. A wonderful #BBCTheConversation on the @bbcworldservice about the soulful effect of connecting to the earth and each other.
https://t.co/bAiEXJSSqo
The right to a home. On this week’s #BBCTheConversation on the @bbcworldservice I chat to @SaijaTurunen & Luísa Gomes about their work eradicating homelessness in Finland & Portugal; how women experience it; and Luísa and I share our own lived experiences
https://t.co/QC871hO4r0
Thrilled that our #BBCTheConversation on puppeteers with @AnaCLambru and @heather_lai from @totoro_show at @BarbicanCentre & produced by @erjnaylor has been selected for today’s @BBCRadio4’s Pick of the Week!
Alongside this week’s #Fileon4
Great selection!
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Join @KatieThistleton for R4 Pick of the Week. We’ve amazing things from @ProfBrianCox @DeborahMeaden @Baddiel @OfficialMelB @KatiePiper_ @themarkrad @marcrileydj @Datshiane @heather_lai @benwyatt78 @RCarhartHarris @amsterdammed @JaneDJourno @jordanrakei https://t.co/W2UVit826N
“When we believe in those magical things around us…”
One of the most enchanting discussions exploring puppeteering with @heather_lai currently in @totoro_show at @BarbicanCentre and award winning theatre director @AnaCLambru on #BBCTheConversation
https://t.co/UOQLhTv2Po
What a delight to have Oscar-nominated filmmakers @NishaPahuja of @tokillatigerdoc & Nazrin Choudhury of @rwbfilm23 in the studio for #BBCTheConversation!
Films everyone should see!
You can hear @NishaPahuja and Nazrin on @bbcworldservice now!
Photo: Tricia Yourkevich/BBC
#BBCTheConversation has interviewed Lise R. Øye @oie_lise from @NorHEADresearch and @NTNUnorway and patient advocate Sarah Shaw from USA - two women who are working to make life better for those who are struggling with #migraines
https://t.co/eSOaNoNJEW
@iambisola speaks on why women are not particularly involved in politics in Nigeria and the pressure of being a woman in Nigeria #UnilagNigeria #bbctheconversation @Unilagtvng @UnilagRadio
@ayodejiosowobi speaks about rape, how her NGO, @standtoendrape came about... #UnilagNigeria #bbctheconversation
Look forward to being on @bbcworldservice’s #BBCtheConversation with my amazing sisters @iambisola, @ijeomaumebinyuo & Fatima Zahra Umar on March 19th.
#UpcomingEvent @BBCWorldService holds #BBCtheConversation” in #UnilagNigeria, March 19
Come, meet with T.V. star @iambisola, activist Fatima Zahra Umar, Founder, @StandtoEndRape @AyodejiOsowobi and poet, Ijeoma Umbinyuo and blogger, Diary of a Naija Girl...https://t.co/xmQrvipdo7
#UpcomingEvent @BBCWorldService holds #BBCtheConversation” in #UnilagNigeria, March 19
Come, meet with T.V. star @iambisola, activist Fatima Zahra Umar, Founder, @StandtoEndRape @AyodejiOsowobi and poet, Ijeoma Umbinyuo and blogger, Diary of a Naija Girl...https://t.co/xmQrvipdo7
#UpcomingEvent @BBCWorldService holds #BBCtheConversation” in #UnilagNigeria, March 19, 2019.
Come and discuss with T.V. star @iambisola, activist Fatima Zahra Umar, Founder of ‘Stand to End Rape’ @AyodejiOsowobi and poet Ijeoma Umbinyuo and Diary... https://t.co/AGbm2g8Hrl
What does equality mean for women in 2019? In the run up to #IWD myself and a power packed panel and audience talk women in Pakistan https://t.co/MEK0rI6SNS #BBCTheConversation
What does equality mean for women in 2019? On #IWD2019 myself and a fabulous panel and live audience talk about what’s its like to be a woman in Ireland today https://t.co/pXbXOCzsQY #BBCTheConversation #genderequality @bbcworldservice @ailbhes @NicciDaly22 @StefPreissner
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