Fully funded by @innovateuk + brought to you by @FircroftCollege, this six-month learning programme for small to medium construction businesses in the West Midlands will run October 2024—March 2025. Apply Here: https://t.co/ONNRBwI2aA Information Session: https://t.co/hRE2CJ3H07

Do you know someone working in a small to medium construction business in the West Midlands? Share our warm invitation to join Re:Builders | Routes to Regenerative Construction in the West Midlands led by @civic_square, @DarkMatter_Labs + Material Cultures https://t.co/ONNRBwI2aA

If, like me, you're really distressed by all the "dangerous mental patient" talk in the media & socials right now, it's not your fault if you've internalised all this prejudice. Please try to talk to someone you can trust.

WE LITERALLY TOLD YOU WE DEAL WITH THIS DAILY. FOR YEARS/DECADES, WE WARNED YOU THIS WOULD SURFACE AND YOU LOT PLAYED IN OUR FACES!

Amidst so much overwhelm and distress, we need collective spaces to offer connection and solidarity, centring community needs. Weekly rest/grounding spaces for community-led care, resourcing and settling our nervous systems:

Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

Looking forward to speaking at this @HumanTraffFdn online form event on Co-working Between Lived and Learnt Experience (Wed 17 Jul 2024, 2pm). Tickets here:

“I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence,” replies Jess Phillips to a group of men intimidating after her win. Jess then tells of how a young woman delivering leaflets yesterday was filmed and screamed at by an older man, who then slashed

When @_wildrumpus invited us to host the Here is Hope area of @timber_festival, we knew we wanted to do it with friends. Join Portland Inn Project, @WeCanMakeHomes + @CIVIC_SQUARE as we bring together artists, practitioners, and imagineers from neighbourhoods across the country.

Cannibal [philanthro]capitalism. When Nancy Fraser spoke of the ways capitalism literally cannibalises - the social (+material) resources it relies on to function l think of how care, like culture & community, like the Earth, have been swallowed within this cannibal endeavour.

I cannot imagine what it must be like for the lionesses to have WON the euros, then get 2nd in the World Cup, just for Harry Kane to say ‘England hasn’t won anything as a nation for a long, long time’. Also, female athletes have won gold at the last FOUR Winter Olympics 🙃

We have free entries available for fundraisers! Join our team of inspiring runners, raising awareness about refugees ✨

'If we don't act now, we wont have a countryside anymore.' At the march, Emma Thompson speaks on the importance of restoring nature and how people need to come together to stop the 'disaster' before an election.

76 years ago today, the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks 🧡 To celebrate #WindrushDay is to appreciate how migrants define Britain in so many positive ways, and to recognise that the fight for justice for the victims and families of the Windrush Scandal is still ongoing.

📢I'm looking for an Advocacy and Research Officer to join my team & support @srpoverty to influence global policy making on #poverty & #HumanRights Apply by Monday 8 July 2024: https://t.co/bETIYZqmFx #Hiring #Jobs

Nigel Farage has called the RNLI a taxi service for illegal immigrants, Ben Habib said the RNLI should be prosecuted for people trafficking. If you stand with the RNLI against these hate mongering b*stards. RT

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Be an advocate. Be an activist. Be an upstander. Be a friend. Be a mentor. Be a listener. Be in solidarity #WithRefugees. #WorldRefugeeDay

To celebrate #WorldRefugeeDay, we’re sharing a tipsheet with practical ways to ensure meaningful refugee participation in your organization. Reach out to us to learn how we can help your organization grow and enhance its impact. #WRD #MRP #MeaningfulParticipation

On this #WorldRefugeeDay, we stand for a world where refugees have an #equalvoice in the decisions that shape their lives. It's time to ensure that refugees perspectives are integral to the solutions and policies that affect them. Everyone deserves a say in their own future.