Written by: Lee Dale, Community Development Coordinator, VOICES (NECG Member) Throughout the Fulfilling Lives programme Expert Citizens and VOICES have been working closely with the National Expert Citizen Group (NECG)…
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How would your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic have been different if you had no access to the internet? The APLE Collective – a group seeking to eradicate poverty –…
Following the recent news that Stoke on Trent has been selected as one of 15 areas across the country to receive funding for the Changing Futures Programme to support work…
Over the last few months Charotte Bates of Expert Citizens has had the privilege of advising to the Kerslake Commission, sharing her own lived experience of the ‘everybody in’ programme….
Written by: Alice Adams 02/07/2021 “The more people banging the drum for co-production, the better”. This phrase sticks in my memory from the first time I spoke to Darren…
Authors: Lee Dale, Community Development Coordinator, VOICES & Penny Vincent, All The Small Things CIC What is Volunteers week? As well as helping others, volunteering has been shown to…
By Sam Fairbanks, Researcher and Evaluator, Expert Citizens CIC I first heard about Expert Citizens when I was the successful applicant for a temporary position with VOICES. As a partner…
By Jennifer Spice, Community Researcher Something that has gone on unnoticed, probably since we could talk, as documented by Hippocrates, in a way we tend to forget, in simple quotes:…
Jamal Khan – Award-Winning Writer & Founder Of Write To Thrive Maya Angelou once said that “My mission in life is not merely to survive. But to thrive; and to…
Authored by: Anonymous Project Consultant, Fulfilling Lives South East Partnership A snapshot of the Fulfilling Lives South East Partnership (FLSE) client group highlighted how substance misuse and mental ill health…