📌 This month saw Victoria Barlow head to Belgium for some plotting and scheming with fellow co-founder Becky Slack. With plenty of ideas flowing and cafe stops along the way, it was a brilliant opportunity to strategise.
📌 Becky and Mark Watts have been helping MAMII establish a stronger presence in Brussels, develop a clear European policy agenda, and build relationships with policymakers – including Becky chairing a roundtable on reducing maritime methane emissions.
📌 How can AI help overcome social disadvantage for young people? Sarah Welsh, Charlotte Weston and Vic worked with the Social Tech Trust on the press launch of the first Challenge Prize where start-ups and scale-ups showcased their platforms that boost learning and career opportunities.
📌 Becky moderated a panel for World Habitat on the global housing crisis, including whether house prices are really influenced by supply and demand and the interconnecting nature of climate change. Check out their excellent documentary https://agend.to/DDVNd6
📌 As a judge for the British Journalism Awards, Becky had the difficult task of shortlisting a large number of excellent articles, documentaries and podcasts. Read her post about why we can't take good journalism for granted: https://lnkd.in/p/gxR8t9ed
📌 Becky attended an UNTOLD Europe event exploring the colonial and racist roots of migration narratives. She took data with her from our Narrative Intelligence tool, which analysed media coverage of migration and explored how we can give migrants greater agency: https://lnkd.in/p/gquNXK3d
📌 Vic and Becky were delighted to meet former TUC General Secretary Baroness O'Grady at a Brussels Labour lecture. Belief in unions – trade unions and the European union – was at the heart of her personal, honest and inspiring speech.
📌 Duncan Robertson has been working with Northern Ireland’s largest public service union NIPSA on the next stage of its digital transformation: turning months of discovery into a tender strategy, with proposals to the shortlisted candidates going out next week.
📌 Next week is World Radiography Day, so Adi Bloom and Matt Ball have been helping the Society of Radiographers think about how to frame the positive impact their members have on patients, so politicians and the public recognise the vital importance of radiographers
📌 Tree of Hope gained more coverage from our PR guru Catherine Cooper, including in The Telegraph and on ITV News: https://agend.to/4up5y6
📌 We've been working with organisations that tackle complex challenges, to help them navigate change and think differently: We supported a global diagnostics company through a major transformation; a UK charity reimagining systems that support young people; and a charity preparing for potential human rights abuses against the communities it serves.
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