Entries Written By John Coster
Network Member Profile: Bear Earth CiC
Bear Earth is a Community Interest Company (CIC) based in Leicester that works to support women and girls in the UK, Sri Lanka & Nepal to access a range of both educational tools and materials to help dispel the myths and stereotypes attached to women and periods in different cultures and communities. It’s actually shocking …
Network Member Profile: She Inspires Global
We are delighted that Zinthiya Ganeshpanchen, known locally in Leicester as the Founder & CEO of the Zinthiya Trust, has signed up She Inspires Global as a Member of the Parallel Lives Network. She Inspires Global is a company founded in 2018 that provides bespoke training organisational development support to small and medium-sized social organisations …
Network Bulletin – February 22
Please find below our Network Bulletin for February 22. The aim is to keep you informed of what Members are up to across the Parallel Lives Network. We look forward to your feedback and please share your news with us for posting on the website & social media channels. John Coster Director, Parallel Lives Network
DocXplorers Series: Ken Dunn
The DocXplorers Series involves John Coster interviewing industry practitioners and issue experts from across the Parallel Lives Network’s Members and supporters. Next up is Ken Dunn talking about his work in Lesotho, St Kitts in the Caribbean and a new shared wealth company Eternal Flame Worldwide Ltd for his Eco Cooking Bag design. Read more about Ken’s work in Lesotho and across …
DocXplorers Series: Jane Holden
The DocXplorers Series involves John Coster interviewing industry practitioners and issue experts from across the Parallel Lives Network’s Members and supporters. Next up is Jane Holden who is challenging herself to a 26 mile marathon with a difference! Jane is the Director of Fundraising for the Andrew Grene Foundation that runs the Andrew Grene High School in Haiti. Currently, they use …
Event Review: Turn Up The Volume
On Friday 11th February 2022 as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, the Parallel Lives Network hosted a 5-hour live-streamed newsroom around the theme of Movement, in partnership with WACIT (World Awareness of Children In Trauma). The newsroom connected young adults from the UK, Turkey, Brazil & Pakistan who showcased the work they are involved …
Resources: Language Cafe
The Language Cafe is hosted at the Documentary Media Centre, 14 Northampton Street, Leicester on the 1st Saturday of each month between 11:00am – 1:00pm. Each month is themed and we invite a guest who can share their national language/s with us. During our first Language Cafe of 2022, we had a guest from China….Layla. Here …
Live Brief for New Global Health MSc
The Parallel Lives Network was recently approached by Kathleen Nthakomwa-Cassidy (Programme Leader MSc Global Health and Senior Lecturer: BSc Health and Wellbeing in Society) to help with a module – HEST 5103: Global Health skills – part of her new MSc programme at De Montfort University. After several conversations with Tina Barton, the Director of …
Uganda 50 Archive Community Drop-in
On Sunday 13th February between 13:00-15:00 Sabras Radio will play host to our next community drop-in – part of Uganda to UK 50 Archive It’s also #WorldRadioDay so we shall explore how radio played an important role in the daily lives of those arriving in Leicester in 1972. We look forward to meeting everyone who would like …
Turn Up The Volume – Movement, Migration and Mental Health
Migration, the voluntary and/ or forced movement of people to foreign destinations is not unique to the 21st century, it has existed for centuries. It has only recently become politicised in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Research from both the Refugee Council and ’25 child and migrant rights organisations’ (Wolfe-Robinson & Taylor, …