Great to be here for the feedback from the #Birmingham #Poverty Truth Commission report launch on behalf of The Church of England Birmingham . Powerful stuff but great to hear people so positive about the whole experience and excited for change. Looking forward to being part of that change.

I’m proud and delighted to have a story in this anthology from Floodgate Press *subs closed*, which launches tomorrow at Voce Books. Some great writing from others too, including @[email protected] #Birmingham #Writer #WritingCommmunity #writers

Babies are like tiny drunk people.

Big announcement coming up soon about the launch event for my forthcoming novel ‘The Muse of Hope Falls’ which is being published by Eye Books Books. Keep your eyes peeled (and the eve of *8 November *free) #booklaunch #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writersoftwitter

A bit of personal news. I’ve got a new novel coming out next week, published by Lightning Books. #Birmingham and #Brum adjacent people might want to come along to the launch in #Digbeth on Weds 8th November. I’d be delighted to see you.

If you want to know why I gave up a perfectly good job to go freelance in 2021, the answer is so I could finish my novel & find a publisher - which I’m proud to say I have done! The ebook is available NOW and the paperback is out 08/11. You can pre-order and get more deets 👇

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At a fringe session of the The Church of England #GeneralSynod talking about the #housingcrisis, on behalf of one of my clients The Church of England Birmingham. Good to see Bishops Rachel and Guli and Lord Best leading the way in galvanising the Church’s response. #socialhousing #homelessness

Great to be at the Nishkam Centre with +Anne on behalf of The Church of England Birmingham , filming about our exciting partnership work on creating more #socialhousing in #Handsworth.

Forget tax cuts; this is the news that the #socialhousing sector has been waiting for. #AutumnStatement

Exciting project! Fab team with Alan Fraser & colleagues from The Church of England Birmingham. Looking forward to developing our partnerships in Handsworth. Faith communities working together to build a better future and #socialhousing. Thanks to Nishkam Centre for the welcome Church Housing Foundation

An excellent Board of Directors meeting for Talenton, our academy trust opening an asset based, trauma informed, AP school Laurence Chilver Alan Fraser Oenca Fontaine | Faith-Led Leadership

My Year in #Film 1 - Fallen Leaves by veteran Finnish auteur Aki Kirausmäki. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2023 this was my first ever Kirausmäki film. It’s quirky, witty, tragic, beguiling, wise - and short (81 mins). A great way to start the year. #cinema #filmreview

Great to be back at YMCA Heart of England for the opening of Mary Court. @Peter_StPets Eddie Hughes and I all worked on this scheme over the years but it’s taken until now to finally get it completed. And it looks great - well done to all concerned. #homelessness #socialhousing

What the hell is happening to #MicrosoftTeams? Is it just me or can other people suddenly not join meetings either. I cannot get it to work!

Absolutely love having these as our corporate sponsor, Board meeting for our Academy Trust for vulnerable young people. Bunch of people on a mission to make education work in an asset based, trauma informed way Laurence Chilver Alan Fraser

Great reporting (again) from the Birmingham Dispatch . And in an incredible example of #synchronicity it landed in my inbox just as I was waiting to go into a meeting to discuss the future of Bill House with Baroness Scott with & senior civil servants at @DLUHC open.substack.com/pub/birmingham…

Each year I feel a duty to remind people of the massacre of 3/4 June 1989 around Tiananmen Sq. And each year I get assailed by bots and others, doing the job of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, who claim it didn’t happen or was all a US-plot. Sorry: it did, and it wasn’t.

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I’m delighted to see that the lovely people at Thinkwell Books, UK: Rich Sentences, Radiant Works have got a new book out. #TheRenegade by Chris Robinson is out now and available on all the usual platforms. See 👇 for more deets