Kate Parker

All the other KPs are just imitating 🎵 You'll usually find me 🚴‍♀️👩‍🍳🕺or at @Forster_Comms

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How can we unite lived and learned experiences to inform communications and campaigning?

On Wednesday we’ll be exploring this challenge through the lens of the climate crisis with @Rachaelorrsome , CEO and @noorafiraq, deputy CEO of @ClimateOutreach
👉 https://t.co/E5pSb18MJn

When faced with challenges like poor air quality and extreme weather events, the cost-of-living crisis and a just transition, organisations focused on change need to throw everything at them to make an impact - maximising the impact of uniting lived experience with the learnt experience of evidence, insights and expertise.

This is the third event in our series, catch up on previous sessions here:
📍 Social justice: https://t.co/2mJgPT3B7a
📍 International development: https://t.co/DKHnecSecB

[Kate Parker @realKateP]

If we can do this with coal, we can do it with oil and gas.

This is a monumental achievement worth celebrating - but let's not get distracted.

We must keep that momentum going and focus on the UK's oil and gas fields...
https://t.co/gusfHaIcnN
#rosebank

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We are surrounded by complex challenges locally, nationally and globally – from air quality to extreme weather, the cost-of-living crisis and a just transition.

Progressive organisations need to throw everything at those challenges to make an impact.

This is especially true when it comes to blending lived experience with the learnt experience of evidence, insights and expertise in communications and campaigning.

Join the conversation next month to delve into this challenge through the lens of the #ClimateCrisis

https://t.co/E5pSb19kyV

#GlobalGoalsWeek

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The second report on the Grenfell Tower inquiry is finally out. For the residents, survivors and bereaved that we worked with during #GrenfellTestimonyWeek this has been too long coming. So what happens now?

This article is a good summary of what we can expect to happen next: https://t.co/9O4fScRuJr

You can read all 58 recommendations from the report (from p31) here: https://t.co/aSPaubB4lY

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Lived experiences are pivotal to enriching our campaigning and communications. Even stronger when united with the learnt experience of evidence, insights and expertise.

Join our three-part series to explore combining the two to power up your communications and campaigning. We’ll bring you leading charity & business voices who’ll share their insights through the lens of:

The climate crisis: https://t.co/4moalovIi8

International development
https://t.co/xvsmRaSgB7

Social justice
https://t.co/i9LsQEoAK3

#climatecrisis #internationaldevelopment #socialjustice #event

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How can we harness lived & learnt experiences for social justice communications & campaigning?

If this is a question you’re asking yourself, join Forster’s @PeterGilheany & @minnierahman from @Praxis_Projects to explore just that https://t.co/Ba5gDpKBqj

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How can we unite lived and learnt experiences to support international development communications and campaigning?

Join @petergilheany , @SallyCopley and @LisaSHawkes to hear their unique insights on this. https://t.co/AQ3QanW9qq

[Forster Communications @Forster_Comms]

How can we leverage experience and expertise for climate crisis communications and campaigns?

Join @petergilheany, @Rachaelorrsome and @noorafiraq from @ClimateOutreach to explore just this as part of our #LivedAndLearnt online series https://t.co/28IVgNIZ2V

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Our CEO, Amanda Powell-Smith, spoke to Business Matters Magazine to share her thoughts on how the new government can harness the power of SMEs to shape a regenerative economy.

https://t.co/TGl1FFC2fc

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Sustainable travel sits right at the heart of people-centred climate action. It's improving air quality and our health while shrinking traffic jams and reducing emissions.

It's why we introduced our sustainable travel policy 15 years ago, with incentives to walk or cycle to work and meetings, bought a whole load of @BromptonBicycle's for the team and offered free cycle confidence lessons for anyone not yet confident on the roads. We've used volunteering time to support pioneering sustainable travel initiatives and supported national campaigns like Cycle to Work Day in partnership with our clients.

To celebrate #BetterTransportWeek we're shouting from the rafters: get on board!

Despite the challenges (why is it so much more expensive to travel by train?) we are working hard to reduce our emissions from travel and spread the word about the benefits of sustainable travel. Why not join us?

#SustainableTravel #SustainableTransport

[Kate Parker @realKateP]

RT @Forster_Comms: Super proud to be named Communications Agency of the Year at @BusinessGreen's #UKGBA last night.

Since we began we have…

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"We learnt to leave all assumptions at the door about working with people who have been through trauma. There is no rulebook for navigating such an experience, or how people will respond"
- Lily Henbrey shares with @prweekuknews our work supporting Grenfell Testimony Week.

[Kate Parker @realKateP]

Nature is not a nice to have 🌱 it's all we have.

Love this new film from Zero Hour 🌍 Let's see how many MPs we can get backing the Climate and Nature Bill. #CANBill - take action at https://t.co/3V0OthfbPW

https://t.co/PZTgie8NwW

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It's amazing how the right opening question can completely shift a conversation.

Here's @realKateP's take on challenges that surfaced at @edie #edie24 recently https://t.co/nT97VfetcC

Moving outside your #comfortzone
Inspiring #action across departments
Avoiding #greenwash

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Earlier this year we had the privilege of managing the media attendance and coverage of Grenfell Testimony Week. Lily Henbrey shares her experience of amplifying the voice of the bereaved, survivors and residents of the Grenfell fire.

https://t.co/IU9onhn8uI

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Good #storytelling inspires action. So how do we do it?

✔️ Make it personal
✔️ Highlight the wider issue
✔️ Offer a solution

Here's a great example:
https://t.co/bd59k7XiiQ

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We know people care about the environmental & ecological crisis but making people act is one of the recurring challenges of sustainability #communications.

It all comes down to great #storytelling writes @Olivia_gmh 👇

https://t.co/WKZlWbP6d5

[Kate Parker @realKateP]

This year, it's all about finding moments of JOY.

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We've brightened up our office with this joyful painting - ‘Every little action, there’s a reaction (satisfy my soul)’ by Gina Smith.

We met Gina during #GrenfellTestimonyWeek, where she was the youngest person to give testimony, sharing her very powerful and moving story.

Thanks Gina!

[edie @edie]

Forster Communications targets net-positive environmental and social impact

@Forster_Comms #Sustainability

https://t.co/eRqnKt9gVx

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🌎 Our new climate action plan puts people and nature at its heart.

Building on our ambitious 2020-23 Climate Positive Plan, we are developing an Integrated Profit & Loss account to understand our total impact on people, planet and nature in more detail.
https://t.co/N9lmYNQbtN