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How join-in stories for kids are bringing climate action to life

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We’re really pleased to share this blog from the Energy Saving Trust Foundation, reflecting on our Youth Climate Action Fund-supported project. Over two years, we brought together children from three Tameside primary schools, members of our Hearts & Minds group and talented local creatives to explore climate change through storytelling, music and imagination. Together, they

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Care, continuity and access: what clinicians told us about reasonable adjustments

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When professionals talk about health inequalities, the conversation can easily become dominated by statistics, policy and targets. But what happens when you begin with the everyday experiences behind those numbers? That’s what we explored at the Doctors in Deprivation Training Day hosted by Shared Health Foundation, where we shared our ‘Jasper Pickles Climbs Everest’ lived

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Are We Being Unreasonable? Amplifying Learning Disability Voices in Health and Care

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Everyone should be able to be listened to and understood, to receive information in a way that makes sense to them, and to be treated with respect. They should have a say in decisions about their own lives and have the opportunity to be meaningfully involved in research and service improvement that could affect them.

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Planet Exercise: turning lived experience into stories that reach thousands of families and empower those involved

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The brief: helping families understand Parkinson’s and movement through story When we partnered with Parkinson’s UK on Planet Exercise, the brief was clear. Create a story that would help children understand Parkinson’s in a way that felt accessible and not frightening, while showing that movement can play an important role in living well with the

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Double Punishment: Capturing Lived Experiences of Social Care Needs in Prison

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Made By Mortals has been working with researchers and participants on the Empowered Together programme funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to co-produce research-informed story about autism and social care in prison. The story will be brought to life in a new short film called ‘Double Punishment’. The film will use

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