Weeknotes, 10 March 2023

This week I've (mostly) been

• Facilitating a project with Birmingham Museums Trust. Since January I've been working with the team at ThinkTank - Birmingham's Science Museum. The project comes to an end in April, so starting to look ahead to holding reflection spaces as part of the evaluation and recommendations process. I've loved facilitating and collaborating with the team, holding a project space for them to bring ideas, updates and creative thinking to deliver the project goals.

• Catching up on HBA Support work after last week's Rare Disease Day. Activity this week has included working on a recruitment campaign for an Advisory Panel, working with the CEO on a new strategy and growing our stakeholder group.

• Working with an Arts and Heritage client to scope out a brief for an audience research and segmentation project. Lots of reading and scoping as shaping to be a really exciting, potentially transformational piece of work. More to follow.

And I've been reading / sharing

• Report into participation in arts and culture in the West Midlands. Click here to download

• Why less marketing and advertising is the SINGLE BIGGEST THING to help the transformation to a sustainable or regenerative society. The always inspiring and thought provoking Jon Alexander from New Citizenship Project. Follow him on LinkedIn.

• New Digital for Good project, seeking researchers and practitioners to submit proposals into digital for 'good'. More here

• The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing from The Living Streets

• New Rare Disease Framework from Department of Health and Social Care

Extra curricular activities

• Started Week 4 of Couch to 5k (have my first 10k in late May)

• Weekly volunteering with Malvern Welcomes

• Going to a gig down in Exeter to see the legendary hardcore band Fucked Up

And I also found time for a little 'filler' tattoo at Lumina Tattoo. It's part of The Semicolon Project to raise awareness of and create safe spaces to talk about mental health and suicide prevention.

More at https://suicideapuk.co.uk/thesemicolonproject