🚀 We’re live! 🚀 The new, upgraded Reach platform is here — making it even easier to volunteer your skills or post volunteer opportunities. Check it out 👉 buff.ly/YZM5Nzx We’d love your feedback — and your help spreading the word 💙 #ReachVolunteering #Launch #Volunteer

Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...

Charities employ 1.25M staff and rely on 6.5M volunteers, no wonder they need HR expertise on their boards! Have you got HR skills? You could make a real impact as a #trustee. Check out some current roles in our video or browse more here: buff.ly/o1UTEA4 #Volunteering

Some people on the left have argued politics is destined to become 'blame the migrants vs blame the rich'. Fair or not, this binary turns out to be a surprisingly useful question for dividing the country right down the middle! Look at the generational splits, madness.

What’s happening in Gaza is not a conflict. It’s starvation, extermination, and the denial of an entire people’s right to live all in the name of security, religion, and history. No law is above the life of a child. No land is sacred if it’s watered with innocent blood. tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p

"Recent reports claim that there is a growing shortage of volunteers, but this is not a universal experience" - @janetthorne.bsky.social

Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇

🌟 Next week is officially our favourite week of the year! 🌟 Join us for #VolunteersWeek from 2 to 8 June as we celebrate skills-based #volunteering. Take a look at our video for the full line-up and if you feel inspired to find out more about volunteering your skills, go to: buff.ly/2LBxyky

Please can I ask for your help? We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own I want to know what you think! Please complete our 2 minute survey forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX

Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Good morning! Nearly 200 people have completed this survey so far. If you work in tech, no matter how loosely, and want to be part of a positive social movement, please take a look and share with your networks

I’ve written for @thespectator1828.bsky.social about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...

A really excellent discussion of what's desperately needed more than anything else: a vision of what we want our world to look like. Please read, share and consider.

Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on. Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.

We’re living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by what’s taking place around the world. I want to remind Londoners that this is your home, and you are wanted here. You help to make London what it is—the greatest city in the world.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Well, that's not good. Thank goodness we have such strong global leadership to tackle climate change. We are in so much trouble. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morning. Happy New Year. A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).

Hair ice. Who knew of such a thing? Apparently it needs specific conditions - temperature, humidity and a fungus which creates anti freeze proteins 😍

Writing isn't what you do after you have an idea. It's how you develop an inkling into an insight. Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page. "I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.

The comments in this thread... This is what I have been missing since twitter. This, and the nature posts (pebble of the day, micro seasons)

✊ Our united, cross-party call to MPs is clear. 🗳️ On 24 January, we need you to follow the science—and help secure a liveable future—by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill. 🐝 Join us—email your MP today—and ask them to back the #CANBill. 👉 action.zerohour.uk

Hardly get round to saying anything here, but am accumulating new followers at a rate I've never experienced anywhere before. My new followers don't seem to have much to say either 😂 Feels like the early stage of Monopoly when you collect everything you land on, just in case....

La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

#BlackFriday is the frenzied gasp of late stage capitalism. #CitizenFriday is the future! Resist consumer culture Reconnect with life Take action....

Every day, in 1000s of ways, we're being cultivated to be consumers. Forget #BlackFriday - let's make it #CitizenFriday Resist the call to consume Reconnect with what matters to you. Find your agency and purpose And....

Recommended Sunday pm viewing: www.netflix.com/gb/title/815... Eye watering facts about our wasteful consumer culture. Eg 13m phones are thrown out every day, & 15m items of clothing arrive in Ghana every week. And the film doesn't even touch on the extractive & exploitative nature of production!

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

It's #TrusteesWeek so I'm here to share that: a) trustee recruitment can hard (report from NCVO today showing 1/3 charities have 1+ vacancies for over a year, Small and micro charities facing biggest challenge b) charities have recruited over 1,570 trustees through Reach Volunteering...

This is hopeful: surge in people stepping up to volunteer their expertise. Ytd 12,000 + new volunteers signed up to Reach Volunteering. Disbelieve your socials - lots of people care and are taking action. It is the story we tell about human nature that is the problem, not human nature itself.

🧵More than a few Bluesky people have been defending Starmer's Sun piece, saying this is "only rhetoric", which is fine because the piece upholds the UK's commitment to net zero. Here's why such claims are objectively false.

Me chatting about how we are wired for connection, collaboration and care, and how this inspires #volunteering. Plus our campaign to prompt people into climate action, board diversity and more on this podcast open.spotify.com/show/2IC9M1Z...

Anyone else finding they've lost their tweeting muscle? I'm busy collecting people to follow here but posting nothing.

Children’s lives in the UK are changing. They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution & the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits.

So in this crucial decade, we are increasing subsidies on things that destroy our life-support systems. Our collective stupidity is mind-boggling. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Been roundly beaten at Boggle by my mum, who is 95 🙄

Which is more amenable to change: How the economy works or how the climate does? The roles of "consumers" and "producers" or the fundamental needs of humans? National boundaries or the boundary between earth and the vacuum of space?

Really proud of my colleagues Shareen and Helo for creating our first ever #ACEVOClimateWeek. If you have the slightest interest in the role of civil society leaders in addressing this massive issue then do please share - this is how we build our new community :) www.linkedin.com/posts/sharee...