Gemma Pettman @gemmapettmanpr.bsky.social Comms dilemma? Dial Gemma | Chart. PR | #CommsHero | Cheerleader of charities | Adopter of dogs | Dedicated insomniac |
www.gemmapettmanpr.co.uk
Fundraising World @fundraisingworld.bsky.social Evidence-based fundraising success stories and inspiration from around the world.
www.fundraisingworld.com
Consulting editor: @howardlake.bsky.social, founder of @ukfundraising.bsky.social.
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
RNIB @rnib.bsky.social We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
Profile pic: Our logo, bold black capital letters spelling RNIB, with a bold pink underline.
Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org We believe everyone should have access to healthy and sustainably produced food that protects people, animals and planet.
https://www.sustainweb.org/
British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org We are working towards a world inspired by ecology in which nature and people thrive.
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social With your help, we are bringing people together to find practical ways to improve our climate, nature, health and economy.
Bio links here -> https://linktr.ee/ffcc
Check out our website -> https://ffcc.co.uk/
One Parent Families Scotland @opfs.org.uk Scotland’s national charity for single parent families. We support family wellbeing, empower parents with the right information and advice, enable access to work, training + education, and campaign against poverty. Free helpline: 0808 801 0323.
ActionAid UK @actionaiduk.bsky.social ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. actionaid.org.uk
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial.
doctorswithoutborders.ca | medecinssansfrontieres.ca
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Lewisham Foodbank @lewishamfoodbank.bsky.social A Trussell food bank serving the community of Lewisham, working in partnership with other organisations fighting food poverty.
Ending hunger together.
https://linktr.ee/lewishamfoodbank?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadhGtsM9QyCzjbuCBwXLko4trQ4z8M6dMKbVWvE5Hu
Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is the only charity dedicated wholly to saving the UK's bumblebees 🐝
www.bumblebeeconservation.org
📷 Kate Jaconello
Forest Holme Hospice @forestholmehospice.bsky.social Our Charity was set-up to ensure that everyone in the local community affected by a life-limiting illness or bereavement gets the care and support they need.
Lord Toby Harris @lordtoby.bsky.social Chair: Labour Lords; National Preparedness Commission; Fundraising Regulator; General Dental Council. Visiting Professor: Imperial College; Cranfield University. Gave up on the other one some time ago, now out of practice at posting. 
UK Fundraising @ukfundraising.bsky.social Fundraising news, community and inspiration for professional charity and nonprofit fundraisers. Since 1994. From @howardlake.bsky.social.
See also @fundraisingworld.bsky.social
John Lepp (he/him/his) @johnlepp.bsky.social Called “the Ted Lasso” of fundraising, John is author of “Creative Deviations”, international speaker and individual giving nerd at Agents of Good.
Mary @maryrca22.bsky.social She/her. Mom. LGBTQ+ rights. Women's rights.
Sam Broderick @ohheysamshere.bsky.social Head of Fundraising, parkrunner, Trekkie, Eurovision, bookworm (on track for 100 books this year) 
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.
JUSTICE @justicehq.bsky.social Building a fairer UK justice system within everyone’s reach.
https://linktr.ee/JUSTICEuk
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. 
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
Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.- 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 🚵🏻♂️🏃
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. 
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.
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.
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.
Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data.
#RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal.
Trustee: Honeyscribe, Reading List Foundation and Open Door Taunton. 🏳️🌈 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 
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
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