What a relief to get my account back... no idea why it was suspended (hopefully no false reports and just an over enthusiastic bot mistake), but I really did not want to go back on X/Twitter! 😅

Huge congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the #socentawards25 this evening! Too many to mention but here’s a couple! @littlegreenchange.bsky.social @zatoun.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: As announced today in the Budget, the Government has published its call for evidence for co-op growth. Launching this investigation on the day of the Budget sends a clear message: this government is committed to growing the co-operative economy.

Great news to get the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social manifesto pledge moving @signalisecoop.bsky.social #coops

❓What is a social enterprise? A social enterprise is a business for good. Signalise... ... gives customers value ... increases access for the Deaf community ...and supports interpreters! 😍 🤘🏻 #SocialEnterpriseDay

Happy #SocialEnterpriseDay! Did you know💡 📈There are 131,000 social enterprises across the country, representing almost 1 in 42 of all UK businesses. 💰£1b in profits has been re-invested to drive social change in the last year 🤝Social enterprises employ 2.3 million people in the UK! (1/3)

Congrats to the @coopparty.party.coop on a successful campaign for music fans!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VyYXBKY... Donate now! #BackOurSocialClubs @localtrust.org.uk

@signalisecoop.bsky.social is on two national frameworks for in-person and video interpreting - NHS Shared Business Services and HealthTrust Europe. Proud of our achievements in tech, reducing missed appointments and inequalities... led by coop members 💪 🔗 Blog: signalise.coop/p/blog-25110...

Surely this has to stop, sign petition please!

Mandate Festivals to Tackle Abandoned Camping Gear chng.it/Yk8DM25W via @UKChange

First experience of chatGPT editing out something political... Wrote a round-up of the Labour Party and included Reform critising DWP for spending so much on interpreters (think return on investment people). Asked for a quick edit and it dropped it! 😲 www.linkedin.com/posts/jenbir...

Mutual and Co-operatives Sector Business Council reception … importance of #coops for the economy, for Places and the aims to double the size of the sector #labourconference @rosemarley.bsky.social

While everyone is getting hyped for the Labour Deputy Leadership The Co-op Party is holding a by-election for its NEC in England North (NW, NE, Y&H) I’m delighted to announce I’m standing as someone active our movement I know that Co-op values are only way Labour can defeat reform

Lisa Nandy MP at the diverse communities reception… diversity was part of growing up in the UK and we need to fight for the country we believe in

Diversity reception at #labourconference Baroness Jacqui Smith … other parties do not want equalities but Labour does, it is part of our mission

What an end to #dovasdag2025 #dövasdag in Sweden 🇸🇪 with the supremely talented SignMark 🤩🤩🤩 Tell me someone in the UK has booked him for his final tour in 2026… #deafdayuk anyone? #deaf #signlanguage

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