We’ve got some AMAZING news to share… our Armchair Adventures podcast has been shortlisted for the Digital City Awards! Whoop whoop! The podcast was shortlisted for the category of Best Use of Technology: not-for-profit – and the whole awards recognises those organisations who are helping to build a better future through technology. You can […]
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We’re delighted to announce that we are working in partnership with the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), The University of Manchester, as part of our Hidden series. This brand new episode will focus on mental health, as we work with a diverse group of young people with lived experience. Our programme ‘Hidden’ is about challenging
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We only went and won! Our Armchair Adventures podcast for children, created during lockdown in 2020, won the Best Podcast Award at the Manchester Publicity Awards last night. We were thrilled as you can imagine – and would love to thank every single one of our collaborators and the communities we worked with. This includes
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We are beyond thrilled to announce two more panellists for our upcoming PPIE event for the research community – Bringing People’s Experience to Life. Jess Drinkwater, a GP and clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester, and Annie Keane PhD and Manager at Vocal (Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) will now join our
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We are over the moon to find out that our Armchair Adventures podcast has been shortlisted for Best Podcast at the Manchester Publicity Association (MPA) Inspiration Awards. And inspiration is what our interactive children’s podcast is all about. Since the very first lockdown in 2020, we’ve worked alongside numerous collaborators to create amazing and interactive
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Work on series 2 of our Armchair Adventures interactive podcast will begin soon! And for the first episode, we are creating a new adventure in partnership with the Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) in Manchester. We have begun our search for creative participants from the Caribbean or African community to work alongside us to
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Can you believe it’s been eight months since we launched Armchair Adventures?! We’ve been on a treetop adventure, a trip to the northern lights in our very own bubbles, a music festival, and many other wonderful places all through the power of our imaginations. And now, for the last episode of the series we are
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I am delighted to be working on Armchair Adventures for Made by Mortals because they are a ‘Yes…….and’ theatre company. By Jen Harris, drama facilitator. ‘Yes……and’ is a theatrical convention often associated with improvisation where one person makes a suggestion such as ‘Let’s go to the beach’ and the next person adds to it by
After the ongoing success of our interactive podcast series Armchair Adventures, we have secured funding to create another episode with a group of armed forces veterans from Tameside. As part of our commitment to work with veterans, we have just signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant pledge. The scheme means we will be working
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