Kids are involved in #dovasdag #dovasdag2025 and I can see #deafpride #deafidentity and #signlangage… I imagine there are hearing parents here too mingling and absorbing #deafculture 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 this is community 🤩 2/2

THIS is how you do #deaf day #dövasdag #dovasdag2025 exhibition stands, performances, culture, information and debates… and the kids are right there, included and part of the community, art, #deafidentity and #signlanguage 1/2

Onto Stockholm and a busy day on Thursday meeting Sveriges Dovas Riksforbund (Swedish #deaf association) and 2 interpreters… everyone has been so welcoming! The global stories of what we’ve achieved are to be celebrated but even in #sweden so much more to do for #signlanguage and #accessibility

My colleagues are losing funding left and right: and its not just research it is to train specialists teachers. It was a quick Friday afternoon dump that got my field on fire, here is a mainstream article #Disability #DEI #TeacherPreparation #Academia #Blind #LowVision #TSVI #COMS #Braille #Deaf

Chatting to an American couple in Stockholm. He was a pastor and his wife used to sign in church for a 5 year old deaf girl who’d tell her sometimes that she was using the wrong signs… The next sentence was no surprise… the girl came from a #deaf family #languageacquisition

If the NHS is going further down the privatisation route (please no) then this is what we should aspire to… co-operatively owned services that do not take remove money from local economies

I’m in Sweden… just been asked for age verification on Blue Sky and thought this was a great initiative. Turns out it’s in the UK too! bsky.social/about/blog/0... so good being on an ethical platform 🙌

I was in 🇫🇮 for my Churchill Fellowship research project and visited Kuurojen Litto (FAD) and WFD and saw the Finnish Deaf Museum, met some wonderful people. Brilliant to see a whole building dedicated to deaf people, history and interpreter training via Humak. If only we had this in the UK!

Check out this from We Own It. weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

Happy United Nations International Day of Sign Languages! from Finland 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 @signalisecoop.bsky.social

This is the culmination of 5 years of hard work and commitment by co-op members. So happy our work is recognised! Congrats to all those short-listed 🙌 and looking forward to meeting everyone!

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Visiting family and we’ve got on a train for 11 mins. It’s cost £40 as a family of 4. Just overheard a young family (standing room only for them) saying it would’ve been cheaper for them to drive. #nationalise the trains #privatisationfail @weownit.org.uk

Love our allotment, the community, getting outdoors and hanging with friends growing veg (and sometimes drinking beer). It is the best thing ever. Connection to the land is more important than ever... Sign to keep our allotments: weownit.org.uk/act-now/hand...

A woman with leg pain relied on her young daughter to interpret...doctor suspected a serious blood clot, referred... urgency was lost in translation. Care delayed. Two days later, the clot traveled to her lungs and she died. #interpreting (From bit.ly/3GZgt6k) medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07... 1/3

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Reform MPs want to cut #Deaf #AccessToWork uk.news.yahoo.com/non-english-... #AccessToWork keeps #Deaf people in work, wages = ↑ treasury & employs #BSL #interpreters Compare: Farage's MP salary £91,346 = rarely in his community & earns £1m (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) Who is "scrounging"?

Platforms & fair work principles are baked into the co-operative democratic governance of platforms (voting, member rights, working together) such as bsky.app/profile/sign... I attended a workshop yesterday with some hugely brilliant minds on all things platform co-op. A good read buff.ly/whQflfR

This is how you do engagement and transparency... an APPG you can ask questions and collaborate with. Hugely important in bringing together changemakers supporting govt to drive growth in local communities and increase value delivered Thank you! @patrickhurley.bsky.social @signalisecoop.bsky.social

Highly recommended free CPD. For interpreters and translators with an eye on the future... platforms have the power to shape working conditions with unethical practices damaging to interpreting profession and #Deaf access. Careful who you work with! @iti-uk.bsky.social www.iti.org.uk/training/eve...

I went to Kings College Hospital London and found another example of a fail to supply an interpreter to communicate with a #Deaf patient. Should have gone to @signalisecoop.bsky.social ! #deafaccess #interpreter #NHS #NHSAIS

Great update from the first Social, Cooperative and Community Economy APPG... 4 NW councils have opted for "one stop shops" for interpreting contracts which have done a disservice to local Deaf communities. The evidence for better businesses is there buff.ly/AK1JEwW bsky.app/profile/sign...

It's time for change in holding NHS staff and organisations to account for refusing to book or poor contracts who do not supply due to very low pricing or SLAs. Deaf people deserve access without waiting or fighting for it. #deaf #procurement #socialvalue #NHS #BSL 4/4

We often fill contracts where others cannot. That is community. Also work on solutions that support all users to ensure a great service for Deaf people via our website buff.ly/CBvxMbz and other resources such as our Deaf users' resources pack: buff.ly/4wGVeHt. 3/4

It has been an eye-opening experience in delivering an interpreting service via bsky.app/profile/sign.... NHS is stretched. Our staff & interpreters do lots of staff education, supporting Deaf people to ask for interpreters. So much more education is needed and it is part of our added value. 2/4

Read this! #Deaf people's access to healthcare report. More needed from the NHS: contracts with agencies, delivery & NHS systems & staff training. Interpreters often blamed for "not turning up" when issues are often a terrible contract or NHS staff who do not book. 1/4 rnid.org.uk/2025/04/hidd...

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

1) More Deaf services are run by US-based companies, which creates gaps 2) VCSEs are more innovative 3) Govt aims to double the coop sector to create value Support people-powered @signalisecoop.bsky.social today! 30% tax relief via the EIS scheme 5% interest from 2027 signalise.coop/p/invest

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Great to see HMRC commit to VCSE sending... Claire Dove is doing a phenomenal job in getting commitment to #socialvalue from govt depts @signalisecoop.bsky.social www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/hmrc-pu...

Very sad to see the ongoing mess of the MoJ's interpreting contracts 14 years after the consultations. Trying to save money doesn't work if you don't listen to the experts who provide the service - not companies but those with real connections to end suppliers

Any #commissioner looking at BSL services should use a separate lot for #BSL for "non-spoken language" with #Deaf users. Mission-led British community businesses can add value, deliver better services and match real prices buff.ly/4O0VdTG #socialvalue #procurement @signalisecoop.bsky.social

Great to see the new Social, Cooperative and Community  Economy All-Party Parliamentary Group, Labour committed to doubling the size of the cooperative sector in this term as a way to drive growth from local communities via mission-led businesses #coops

Excellent to listen to this brilliant man on BBC’s Politics Live today… @michaelconroy.bsky.social Wisdom and clarity about what kids get from social media and the manosphere. As a mum of two boys, a feminist and a believer in equality we need to counteract harmful messaging for everyone’s sake.

chng.it/bFKjTJnWg8 Spotify have removed a few podcasts but others remain… please sign

Thank you to @socialenterpriseuk.bsky.social for 2 #Procurement Act 2023 webinars… VCSEs drive innovation and social value Commissioners may overlook their value or find them hard to access - but we're here and ready to [email protected] #deaf #interpreting #socialvalue #co-ops

Super excited about my first ride with the Colorado Drivers Co-op rideshare! Super affordable and quick pickup. https://www.coloradodrivers.coop/

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

Changes to the Procurement Act are welcome to support social enterprises and the great work that we do within our communities @signalisecoop.bsky.social is ready to take on more work to increase social value across interpreting contracts. What we do is all about added value!

❓Need a sign language professional? You can book one through us by email or phone - we look forward to hearing from you! https://buff.ly/3eD34OC

Being here on Blue Sky feels a lot LOT better... like how it used to be 😅