Welcome to a new year everyone 💜. Today we're back as a full team: rested and ready to inspire better conversations & communication about the issues that matter to us all.

Did you miss our round-up of the best in comms & campaigns? Our January newsletter features nina kelly @reframingrace Colin McFarlane🙏🏽🇺🇦 Justice4Windrush Impact on Urban Health FrameWorks UK FrameWorks Institute 👉🏾 Read online: mailchi.mp/660627d52fe5/w… 💜 Subscribe: heard.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=24… pic.x.com/VJuHSIx8DM

New role at Heard - please RT/share! Apply now to be our head of operations and people. You'll sit at the heart of our award-winning small #charity, overseeing day-to-day practices & ensuring we’re doing our very best by our team. Info: heard.org.uk/jobs/head-of-o…

Last chance to apply! Tell us about yourself before this Monday 26th Feb at 10am & you could become our new head of #operations & people 💜 #charityjob #charityjobs

We loved this opportunity from Comic Relief to share more about our work with TikTokkers Kyle Thomas, Ash Holme, @cocosarel & Farmer Will. Check out the vid here to learn more about Heard: tiktok.com/@comicrelief/v…

Congrats to everyone who recently completed our 'Communication That Works' pilot course! We've loved partnering with CharityComms to support members to learn about narrative change & framing. 100% of participants said they feel more confident applying framing in their work!

Drop what you're doing, and read the best piece on the Cass review, by Freddy McConnell: "Hilary Cass’s proposals are mostly common sense. She must reject anti-trans bias with the same clarity." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Oh wow I’ve just seen my mentions and this has blown up. thanks everyone. It’s such a huge privilege to get to talk about these topics on This Morning ❤️🙏

We love exloring how our #climate communication principles can be applied in creative new ways. 🤣 A while back, we spoke with comedian Jessica Fostekew on how to frame the climate crisis in comedy. Jessica updated us with some amazing news this week...

The full agenda is now live for Framing comms for success in an election year and beyond with FrameWorks UK's Kate Stanley and Heard's Nathalie McDermott. Together they’ll give you the tools and insights you need to craft powerful comms with long-lasting impact. bit.ly/3wQ8umm

“The Government must listen to the people, abandon this deplorable deal with Rwanda…and protect those who need sanctuary” We stand in solidarity with everyone speaking out for migrant justice. Together we’ll continue to work towards a society built on care and mutual respect✊

Campaigners, communicators and charity leaders: It's a #GeneralElection year - and this week we're teaming up with CharityComms and Heard's Nathalie McDermott to talk framing and comms. 1 May at 10.30. Sign up 👇 charitycomms.org.uk/events/seminar…

Last year we embarked on an exploration into Stigma and Poverty taking a participatory and power sharing approach to redefining the problem and working up priority areas for action and investment.

👇 Stigma is a powerful force that holds poverty in place. It enables and exacerbates inequalities. Loosening stigma's grip is a key lever of social change. 🔎 New JRF analysis using participatory, power-sharing approaches looks at poverty stigma and the actions needed 🧵(1/5)

"We’re currently living through one of the most hostile periods for trans people in the 21st century. But on screen, across all genres, all roles, and all networks, transgender stars are beginning to flourish". thepinknews.com/2024/05/10/tra… PinkNews

📢Stop defending children's palliative care #CPC & start championing it🙌 One of the fab takeaways from our keynote at The Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Nurses' Networking & Education Day last week. Brilliant to get everyone thinking about how to collectively shift the narrative on CPC💫

This has been a weird, at times absurd, election. But behind the scenes, civic tech volunteers are working day and night to improve the state of democracy in the UK. Really delighted to have been able to work with one of the best examples of civic tech: Vote for Policies 1/8

I don't say this lightly. As a gay person who was very conscious of my difference from a very young age, the "culture of silence" that I experienced, that this Labour MP is proposing, was an incredibly traumatic and damaging experience.

Ahead of London trans pride & following an incredible Trans Pride Brighton we're sharing some of the amazing things our brilliant members have been up to. Podcasts, panels & everything in-between, we're always inspired by their phenomenal work, and couldn't be prouder of them 🏳️‍⚧️💕