Just caught up with this excellent @brumhour.com conversation between @roifield.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's own @lucycaldicott.bsky.social. As this positive discussion makes clear, we can have more mobility choices that improve our city for more of us.

It’s a pleasure to have @lucycaldicott.bsky.social in @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org’s committee. Lucy steered our 1 year of the road safety emergency event and is currently preparing to launch our new manifesto asks into the world next month. Lucy had an hour-long interview on Brum Radio y/day.

Leading teams through change doesn’t have to mean confusion, stress, and burnout. I learned a powerful lesson years ago about maintaining trust with your team. This week’s newsletter: www.changeout.org/leading-chan...

We don’t talk about burnout enough I’ve written about it in this week’s newsletter ❤️ www.changeout.org/burnout-in-m...

This week’s newsletter is now out and it’s all about making the business case for joy 🌻 www.changeout.org/the-business...

In this week’s newsletter I look at leadership in complexity where beliefs are sometimes held as being in opposition and where people are seeking black and white, not grey. The important thing is to lead with inspiration and trust and try to find the common ground. Have a good weekend

I hope 1 day our country and auto industry will change and these events will be a piece of history. Thanks to @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org for organising tonight's event to mark the 1 year of @brumroadsafety.bsky.social declared by council. Thoughts with the 23 victims since, including 1 today.

My speech from the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org event to mark the first anniversary of the road safety emergency today. 🧵

Happy Friday! This week’s newsletter is now OUT looking at why strategies should be kept simple, making wills and a mass Wuther. Oh, and couldn’t resist mentioning the Lionesses again ❤️ Have a great weekend! www.changeout.org/keeping-it-s... #linkinbio #strategy #leadership

On 4 March 1824 at the City of London Tavern in Bishopsgate, over 30 eminent "gentlemen" put their names to the fledgling RNLI at its inaugural public meeting. The crowd unanimously passed 12 resolutions, including:

Great to join the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org demo in Moseley this morning. Thank you to everyone for coming. Constant red light jumping while we were there which underlines what a dangerous junction this is.

“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.” RIP Ozzy #utv

Good to represent @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org on Midlands Today yesterday. Thank you to the BBC for dedicating the whole programme to road danger and Birmingham City Council’s road safety emergency.

'Ethan Akotiah, 22, who lives off Stratford Road, said: "It's terrible, it's getting worse and worse. My nan was in a collision and so was my mom. It's constant ... I fear for my family's life."' @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

This week’s newsletter is about the importance of local democracy. I think that if people understood better how to make contact with local politicians and how to make change happen it would help rebuild trust in democracy. Have a great weekend and don’t forget to like and subscribe! 👍✅

342 days of a road safety emergency in this city. I’m asking a question in BCC’s Full Council today about what is being done to tackle it.

I do enjoy an exuberant parklet occupying a car parking space and paid for with govt funding 🌱#exeter

Mam's in Ballymena hey ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️ @izzykamikaze.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter brought to you from sunny Digbeth. I look at how important it is to remain curious, no matter how important you are, or how much you think you know. Happy Friday, folks! #leadership

I am smiling to myself that John Taylor of Duran Duran trailed a gig later in the year in “North Midlands”. It’s going to be at Coop Live in Manchester

I always feel a bit sad on this day because the days start getting shorter and it feels too early in the year. But, on this day, in 1997, I came out. (It was indeed the longest day but things got better)

I’ll never forget the constituent who told me that the Stockwell - Oval LTN was going to increase his *car* journey time to Sainsbury’s from 8 to 15 minutes and I had to really bite my tongue not to say “yep that’s exactly the point”. Ah well.

In this week's newsletter I look at the importance of making hybrid working better for all and also finding some tranquility on Youtube. Enjoy! www.changeout.org/team-culture...

From writing bids and building fundraising strategies & stepping in as interim CEOs and FDs, Blumers have been busy! Demand for bid writers is high. If you’re a charity looking for help with a specific trust or foundation, check out our search function: ▶️ blume.life/charity-funds

Sometimes it feels hopeless to write my newsletter. There’s so much fear and pain in the world. I started it just before the pandemic as a way of making sense of things and trying to share a little light in the darkness. Here's this week's effort: www.changeout.org/vision-free-...

I made this film because I was so concerned about what I was witnessing on Birmingham’s roads every day. In the film I speak to people who have lost loved ones in road traffic collisions and follow the campaigning activities of @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org‬

You can travel all the way by train from Amsterdam yet it’s the “object caught on the overhead line at Longbridge” that’s going to stop you in your tracks #brumlife

Only the led ride and counter aspects of the event will go ahead tomorrow. We've been watching the forecast and there's some pretty grim looking thunderstorms happening later in the afternoon that doesn't look like it would mix well with outdoor gazebos and bike checks.

“Elon Musk? Sounds like a perfume” Overheard on the cross city line. Elon appears in my newsletter this week. Which is here: www.changeout.org/mastering-ti...

Here's this week's newsletter where I look at whether there's been any progress on racial justice in the five years since George Floyd's murder www.changeout.org/five-years-on/

Morning everyone! Have some puffins www.youtube.com/watch?v=03P6...

This is so disappointing. I was the interim CEO of the Runnymede Trust during the global Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. At the same time BME groups were disproportinately dying, and at risk from covid-19 virus. So many reports and evidence re: racial inequities yet we have barely made a dent.

A brilliant day marching at Birmingham Pride with Villa and Proud yesterday! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Here’s to better leadership and less leadershit. And more sunflowers 🌻 This week’s newsletter now out: www.changeout.org/what-is-lead... Happy weekend, everyone

My votes are going to the tremendous Finnish 🇫🇮 #Eurovision

🚨 NEW 🚨 We don't believe the EHRC's 'interim update' on trans people's rights is lawful. So we’re bringing a legal challenge

Employers can’t recruit workers with many of these skills. The people with these skills are ready to work. #LiftTheBan

How about some Friday positivity for your timeline? Look back at this wonderful display of skills from campaigners in Coventry, who took to the streets with one clear message: People seeking asylum are ready to work. Let them. #LiftTheBan

In my newsletter, I write about the people whose work has been inspiring me this week including Lady Hale, Agustina Oliveri, Ali Walker Davies, and Viraj Mendis. And, who's your pick for Eurovision tomorrow? Mine is revealed inside... www.changeout.org/seconds-bett...

The absolute joy of working for myself is sneaking the occasional impromptu day off. Today is one of those days.

Great to see the Mayor of London back higher council taxes on empty and second homes. In January, I argued for @thefabians.bsky.social that councils should be able to freely set council tax premiums on empty and second homes, as well as holiday lets. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

A reminder to mark your calendars. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's monthly "Circle the City" ride takes place the first Friday of each month, departing from Victoria Square at 6PM. All welcome. See you on June 6th!

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet.” Or something

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet.” Or something

Loving my new Villa Pride shirt ready for marching with Villa and Proud at Brum Pride two weeks’ today. “Created for everyone, everywhere, its eye-catching design makes a stand for self-expression.” Pride feels even more important than ever this year #transrightsarehumanrights #lwiththet 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏼

Happy Europe Day! 🇪🇺

I've had "Write newsletter" on my things to do list for weeks and I've finally published one. It's clearly been a good week 😊 Happy Friday! www.changeout.org/equity-in-ev...

Wild that civic leaders everywhere don't look at what Paris has accomplished and say "I want that kind of legacy for my city too" but instead just continue to preside over unhealthy, unpleasant, and unsafe urban landscapes.

Early start this morning to join the Kings Norton Nature Reserve Dawn Chorus walk. So lucky to have these green nature-rich spaces in Birmingham and the kindness and hard work of volunteers to benefit us all (and our feathery and non-feathery friends!) www.fknnr.org.uk

Steve Smith went all in on “war on the motorist”, making it his first priority to stop and rip out bus lanes, challenge LTNs, Clean Air Zones and vetoing traffic reduction measures. That earned him just 16.6% of the West of England vote.