Social Justice and Time to Shine, shared zoom lunch and costume

Social Justice & Systems change

Lou found this from new Marmot Covid review:

"There is an urgent need to do things differently, to build a society based on the principles of social justice; to reduce inequalities of income and wealth; to build a well-being economy that puts achievement of health and well-being at the heart of government strategy, rather than narrow economic goals; to build a society that responds to the climate crisis at the same time as achieving greater health equity"

Today Sapphire is at a virtual conference:

Time to Shine (T2S) is a leadership programme created by The Rank Foundation in 2010. The programme evolved in response to the increasing demands within the social sector to improve the range of business capability skills and, following the recession in 2008, to address the wide-spread challenge of under-employment experienced by many people.   

The programme has 3 main aims: 

• To address organisational development needs within a social enterprise or charity. 
• To enable a Time to Shine Leader with the right skills mix, talent and work ethic, who is currently under-employed, to experience a 12- month full-time paid position within a supportive social sector work environment.  
• To provide an opportunity for talented people to consider the social sector as a career of first choice. 

To date, more than 300 Time to Shine Leaders have worked in over 200 charities and social enterprises across the U.K.  The programme’s distinctive culture incorporates a range of personal and professional development activities for the Time to Shine leader, their line manager and in turn, the whole organisation.

Sapphire's role as Dance Outreach and Development co-ordinator involves

Connecting 1:1 with vulnerable participants to enable, develop and create collaborative projects.

Researching digital platforms for performance

Networking and developing relationships especially in relationship to digital platforms from local to international level.

Leading research and development of Audio description for dance and sharing report throughout Shallal

Initiating and maintaining new bimonthly Artistic team meetings

Reporting weekly to creative director, monthly to business meeting and creative team   

So far we are 9/10 days into her new role and already i can feel the benefits.

Yesterday as her manager i was also in the conference and very impressed by the care, expertise and enthusiasm there is for the programme, with opportunities available for leaders, managers and charities within it.

Grateful thanks to all our team and theirs that has enabled this opportunity for Shallal and Sapphire.

Background work continues in Shallal and as always picks up pace to match new outputs and needs, so yesterday was our first business meeting of 2021.

Meetings, breed meetings, and i'm grateful that there are more creative ones as well now.

We look forward to our first Artistic team meeting next week!

I'm off to write to Shallal Dance Theatre to invite us all to lunch on Zoom.

Last week Terri and Sapphire shared a birthday,

next week Joseph is 27 on the 27th!

Becky has her birthday on Friday - we will celebrate that next week as she has an appointment so can't be with us.

Also to repeat an invitation to Create Costume a good wintry lockdown activity.