@joshpughcomic.bsky.social @joshpughcomic.bsky.social Do comedy & football
Gemma Abbott @gemabbott.bsky.social Legal Director @thehowardleague.bsky.social. Trustee @dignityindying.org.uk. Views my own. She/her 🏴
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Nacro @nacro.bsky.social Our housing, justice, substance misuse and education services work alongside people to help them succeed. And we campaign together to create lasting change.
Find us online at nacro.org.uk
Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me Chair, Welfare Scotland | EQHR Commissioner | Experts by Experience Panel at 🏴 Poverty and Inequality Commn | AMRSPH Assoc | Fellow of Royal Society of Arts | MIHSCM Institute Health & Social Care Mgmt | 🏳️🌈 ♿️ #LGBT+ | He/Him
Free Representation Unit @freerepunit.bsky.social Relieving poverty by training aspiring lawyers to represent clients in tribunal hearings for free. Please support us at https://www.thefru.org.uk/donate
Clare @clarec.bsky.social Education and Employment lawyer at Southwark Law Centre
Mother of two, one with SLD
Cricket fan: Surrey, Glamorgan and England
Carri Swann @carriswann.bsky.social Welfare rights/social security at @cpaguk.bsky.social. Posting in a personal capacity. Repost ≠ endorsement
📍Nottingham- O Owen @owenatcpag.bsky.social Welfare rights adviser at Child Poverty Action Group
Claire Hall @claritahall.bsky.social
Martin Williams @martin-cpag.bsky.social Welfare Rights Adviser at CPAG
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Karl Wilding @karlwilding.bsky.social Trying to work out what’s going on in civil society & what to do next. At: @UniKentCfP @MyCakeFinance @1stCommunities @creatingtfuture. Ex-@ncvo. Volunteer.
Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social Londoner, mother of two, consultant around questions of health, care, community, influence and impact (previously CEO Richmond Group of Charities and National Voices). Head and heart. 🐈⬛ 🪴 ☕️ 🇪🇺 🌳
Laura Bunt @laurabunt.bsky.social CEO at YoungMinds. Society, technology, design, change. Hoping this is a more hopeful place.
Jacob Lant @jacoblant.bsky.social Chief Exec at National Voices, England’s leading network of over 200 health and social care charities. Long time champion of involving people and communities in designing health and care services. Also loves DIY, libraries and Sheffield Wednesday.
Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk NHS Englander. Ex VCSE and BBC.
Mainly interested in volunteering, VCSE sector, public participation and engagement, so stuff around people, building communities, health, power, digital, media etc.
Husband | 🚸 Dad x2 | 💔 #ACHD
🌍 Warwickshire, UK
Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social Usually found (professionally) talking about ageing, loneliness, health, care, ageism etc. Other stuff as the mood takes me
John Hannen @jhannen.bsky.social Business Development Lead for @vsnw.bsky.social - Connecting, empowering and championing the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector to shape a brighter future for the North West
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
(he/they)
Victoria Anderson-McCann @vandersonmccann.bsky.social Reputation management and privacy lawyer by day. CEO of a social mobility charity, @acceptedcharity.bsky.social / 'BVL' by night. All views my own
Email me: victoria.anderson@accepted.org.uk
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Elizabeth Cleland @elizabethanjoke.bsky.social Domestic abuse advocate, researcher, survivor | Oxon Council's DA Lived Experience Advisory Group | Reader, singer, writer |🇬🇧🇺🇸 in Oxford ✡
Can present on links between DA & extremism/terrorism – reach out
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk We believe in choice at the end of life. Including the option of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
Maëva May @frusuk5.bsky.social Associate director Systems Engagement at Stroke Association. AMS FLIER. Health and research policy geek. Mother of three. 2x Immigrant (France>US>UK). Once upon a time equine internist. Happiest climbing a mountain, preferably with family and our pup.
Next for Nonprofits @handle.invalid Ideas and insights for changemakers around the world
www.nextfornonprofits.com
David Bull CBE @davidnbull.bsky.social David Bull CBE, ex CEO Unicef UK & Amnesty International UK, leadership coach/mentor, consultant on charity & international development strategy & governance, Dep Chair of The Power of Nutrition, amateur photographer, interested in astronomy and genealogy.
Compassion in Dying @compassionindying.bsky.social We want people to be in control of their end-of-life decisions because there is no-one better to make them.
Mr Joe Jenkins @mrjoejenkins.bsky.social Charity leader, hubby, dad, spare human for pup; and everything here is all me
David Pearce @medavep.bsky.social Fundraising & Marketing for Dignity in Dying & sister charity Compassion in Dying | 'Slick and well-funded' | Dog lover
Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
Andy McGowan @andymcgowan.bsky.social Policy and Practice Manager at Carers Trust. Usually tend to post about carers, politics, social care, education, football or musicals.
Any posts are strictly in a personal capacity.
Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org We're the leading nonprofit open social web project in the UK. We're reconnecting people & organisations with their online community.
linktr.ee/newsmast
❌✉️ - Don't DM us, we won't see your message! Email support@newsmast.org
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social Work in news and public affairs. Climate change/energy/tech, Pokémon, X-Men & LGBT+ rights. 🏳️🌈 retreating from the bad apps
Freya Barnes @freyabarnes.bsky.social I do PR & storytelling for social change. Comms counsel to charities, think tanks & public figures. Previously Engage Britain, Shelter.
Nature & politics. Weird about The Beatles. Aspiring goat owner🐐
freyabarnespr.co.uk
Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social The UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change.
https://www.theccc.org.uk/
Fiona Colley @fionacolley.bsky.social Charity campaigner, parent, gardener, dog lover. Director of Social Change @HomelessLink. Views my own.
Jane Ide @janeideceo.bsky.social Proud CEO of ACEVO, the membership body for civil society leaders in England & Wales. Chair of Reach Volunteering, trustee of Access Foundation for Social Investment. Here to talk civil society & related stuff. Also on Linked In. X does not mark the spot.
Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social Sort of here, sort of there. Politics, Localism, Communities and Cricket. Labour and Co-op Councillor. Opinions unlikely to be anyone else's.
James Watson-O'Neill @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Activist
Chief Executive of Sense
Trustee of National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Non Executive Director at SW London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust
Views my own
Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social Head of Policy and Research at Amnesty International UK. Scottish Women's Aid Trustee. Scottish by choice. I do swearing and tweed.
Susie D @susiedlon.bsky.social Housing nerd, working for Trust for London (@trustforlondon.bsky.social). I talk about tackling the housing crisis, #TemporaryAccommodation and the #LondonHousingPanel a lot. Mum. Cat feeder. Christian. Randomly opinionated.
Sophie Drouet @sophiedrouet.bsky.social Service design things. Posts about user-centred design, digital, the charity & public sectors and causes I care about (e.g. books, birds, history and social issues) 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 She/her
Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk
Clare Laxton @ladylaxton.bsky.social Founder & Director Hawkins Laxton & Co - a Comms and Influencing Consultancy📱Criminal Justice academic - PhD specialising in intimate partner homicide & coercive control 🎓Trustee at Working Chance 💜 Podcaster at Killer in the family podcast 🎙️
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Edward Wood @edwardwood.bsky.social Parliamentary research expert. Previously at UK House of Commons Library, now retired. Acting chair Fio theatre co, Cardiff. Husband, father.
Helen F @helenfurn.bsky.social MD of High-Rise Communications. Prev. comms British Red Cross, Ashgate Hospice. Working from Ancoats, Manchester.
Steven Stokes @steven-stokes.bsky.social Strategic Comms and Engagement Director for a Welsh Charity. RSA Fellow. Haikuist. Own views. Cymru / Wales 🏴
Haiku poems via https://stevenlstokes.wordpress.com
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Hilary Burkitt @hilaryburkitt.bsky.social Housing, poverty, social policy, cats | Housing policy at Independent Age
Tom Redfearn @tredfearn.bsky.social Policy, research and influencing on health, care and social issues. Currently at the Royal Osteoporosis Society. Views mine, obvs.
Vic Rayner @vicrayner.bsky.social CEO of National Care Forum; Chair Care Provider Alliance; Chair of Global Ageing Network; Honorary Professor City St George’s University of London. Passionate about care, support and housing. Interested in pretty much everything!
Catherine Goodall @cgoodall.bsky.social Policy Manager at the Stroke Association and general policy nerd. Cofounder and campaigns lead at Proud Changemakers https://bsky.app/profile/proudchangemakers.bsky.social, formerly at NCVO. Views my own.
Ellen O’Donoghue @ellenod.bsky.social CEO James’ Place, Co-Chair National Suicide Prevention Alliance. Health, public health and social change.
Annette Fisher @miniannette.bsky.social 🏴 🇳🇱 Accountability & Governance practitioner & researcher | International aid & development | Children’s Panel Member in Scotland | Founder & Director of Weans' Scran & Kitchin | cargo-bike/bakfiets owner | Glasgow-based | parent to a 4yr old
Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social Interested in global politics & environment, plus gardening, travel, art, photography and life. Ex UK Green Party, then 30+ years as a sustainability professional. Now, UK politics focused on AllianceNow UK, working together for a new democracy.
No DMs
Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
Caspar Below @cbelow.bsky.social Human-centred tech consultant @hippodigital. Team culture, product, service digitisation, agile. Currently NHS. Former Head of Digital @Shelter, social justice activist & oral historian
Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social Expert by experience in healthcare management & policy, Chair National Voices, Trustee RVS, NED PHIN. Also cook, wine drinker, reader, gardener, walker, armchair art critic.
BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social BuDS Disability Service is a user-led, pan-disability grassroots charity working across England. Formerly Buckinghamshire Disability Service. Registered Charity 1102511 #Fair4All #Reach4Work
Rights For Residents @rightsforresidents.bsky.social Authentic voice for those in care and their families. Campaigning for the legal right to a care supporter in all care settings #GloriasLaw #RightsForResidents
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Judi @judi.graysky.social Suffolk mum and CEO of St Elizabeth Hospice. Passionate about health equity and encouraging Compassionate Communities to support one another. Posting mostly personal but bit of work too, opinions are all my own.
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Janet Thorne @janetthorne.bsky.social CEO of Reach Volunteering, Trustee of The Movements Trust.
Trying to distract myself from worrying about the state of the world
Gail Freeman @gfreeman.bsky.social Environment 🌳 Social justice 💪
20 years working for environment not-for-profits, currently at a London grantmaker
Lifelong indie kid now living in suburban London
Bobi @bobirobson.bsky.social Mum in training, digital bod in the third sector, Strategic Project Lead and Director at Poteris
#DigitalStrategy #DigitalInclusion #OddThinker #Accessibility #ND #ADHDer #OnMaternityLeave
Poteris.co.uk | Bobirobson.digital
Francesca Wood @francjwood.bsky.social Practical innovation specialist, creative collaboration, tri-sector connector. Fluent in Private, Public & Third Sector languages.
Leeds-based, but working with clients on a national, regional, city and hyper-local basis.
https://www.fwoodsolutions.co.uk/
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Richard Hazell @rpchlaw.bsky.social Veteran Law Centre worker and solicitor for 50 years. STFC fan. Keen gardener and cyclist. Active in housing issue in the Newbury area.
Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org Shining a light on the UK's role in corruption at home and abroad
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social Challenging corruption, strengthening integrity, and fighting for a fair society based on the rule of law.
Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social Exec Director at Spotlight on Corruption - working on fostering political integrity and ending the UK's role as a hub for kleptocratic assets
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
www.spotlightcorruption.org
@spotlightcorruption.org
Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social Director of Policy @TransparencyUK.bsky.social, governor at Westminster Foundation for Democracy, JRRT director, and former MP (2010-15). Husband to @joswinson.bsky.social, Dad to 3 boys, and recent King’s war studies MA. All views here are my own etc.
Tim Hughes @timjhughes.bsky.social All things democracy, open gov & participation, with a sprinkling of climbing, photography & Ipswich Town.
Democracy & Participation Lead at Open Government Partnership, trustee at MySociety, & former exec director at Involve.
mySociety @mysociety.org We create digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. Subscribe to our updates at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj
WhatDoTheyKnow @whatdotheyknow.bsky.social Make and explore UK #FreedomOfInformation requests. A transparency project from @mysociety.bsky.social. For help http://whatdotheyknow.com/help/contact
Alex Beatty @alexbeatty.bsky.social Semi-retired comms professional. Interests: #History #Communications #Speechwriting #Strategy.
Juliet Swann @muteswann.bsky.social In Edinburgh | anti-corruption and political integrity | Scotland & Wales | for @transparencyuk.bsky.social | Co-chair of Open Government Partnership Scotland | she/her |
Slightly obsessed with Glen Powell
Collective Impact @collectiveimpact.bsky.social Sharing human-first learning, collaborative action, & collective bravery for the socially-minded
Our work: Supports the relational, Facilitates change, & Deconstructs power in social organisations.
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Roberta Fusco @robertafusco.bsky.social Policy & Comms. Head of Influencing at ACEVO, membership body for civil society leaders in England & Wales. Trustee Carers First, volunteer, carer. Interested in public policy, culture & governance. Love a good book, music, dog & sing along. Views my own.
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social Immigration lawyer about town. Migrant. Queer. She/her. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/thoughtsonimmigration
Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social Climate and enviroskeeting.
Strat climate comms & media freelancing: Will@WYeates.com
(📍 London, Europe)
Permanently deleted my twitter account. So should you.
Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social Digital Impact Consultant. Helps charities with digital comms, content strategy and other things that follow. One half of @RadioLento.
Wayne Murray @waynethemurray.bsky.social Aspiring human. Founder of Humanity Squared. Charity strategist. Blade for hire. Ex Refugee Action, Ex Amnesty. https://humanitysquared.co.uk/
Naomi @nkjackson.bsky.social Managing Director at Social Workers Without Borders.
PGR at University of Liverpool: Unduly Harsh? A socio-legal study of children's rights in the context of parental deportation.
Also gardening and allotments!
Own views.
Duane @ FairSay @fairsay.bsky.social Campaigning/activism & digital. Founder FairSay.com, CampaigningForum.com (ECF) events + community + JustPost.pro Migrant, dad, travelled 🌎🌏🌍 from 7. Happiest in a 🛶 in wilderness. He/him
Rosie Downes @rosiedownes.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Friends of the Earth. Past lives with Crisis, London Cycling Campaign, Living Streets, Macmillan and others. Cargo bike enthusiast. Views own. She/her. Based in Frome, Somerset