UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH

For UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) IN 2021,

The Higgins Bedford with the  support of SHARE

Museums East,displayed artworks and films that

documented the personal experiences of people

living with disabilities through the Covid-19 pandemic

and lockdown.

 

In March 2020, at the start of the Covid19 Pandemic,

The Higgins Bedford asked the local community to

share personal experiences of lockdown and its

impact on their lives. Gaps were noticed in the

communities who had offered material for  the

archive and The Higgins Bedford looked to find ways

to be more inclusive of under-represented groups.

The Higgins Bedford worked with individuals and

community groups representing those living with

disabilities. Caroline Coster, who was impacted by

Covid 19 and then sepsis; Living It Up, an organisation

that supports adults with learning disabilities and

Access Bedford, who support the local D/deaf

community.

 

ANDY BURROWS - FALL TOGETHER AGAIN

Here's a little film about Andy's new album 'Fall

Together Again. The album - incredibly Burrows' tenth

long player, between past solo albums and hs

recordings with Razorlight, We Are Scientists, Smith &

Burrows, plus his BAFTA-nominated soundtrack for The

Snowman andthe Snowdog - will be preceded by the

sIngle As Good As Gone and accompanied by a quartet

of UK dates including a show at London's Dingwalls on

30th October.

 

Brilliantly, unashamedly melodic, Fall Together Again is

the kind of record where the earworms patiently queue

up to present themselves one atter the other; where

songs open out into soaring choruses that soon give way

to brighter and ever bolder hooks. It's a record imbued

with the spirit of early McCartney solo albums and

sunroot-down daydream soul. It's shot through with the

kind of sudappled soft rock that used to radiate from

American FM radios in the mid-'70s.

 

Following the success of his solo album. Company

(2012), which spawned four Radio 2 A-listed singles, and

the BAFTA nominated collaboration with composer Ilan

Eshkeri that emerged later that year, Burrows booked

himself into North Wales' famously isolated residential

studio Bryn Derwen at the end of 2013 to get to work on

producing the follow up.

 

 

RECRUITMENT

SHOWCASE YOUR EMPLOYER BRAND TAILOR YOUR CAREER EXPERIENCE TO EVERY CANDIDATE WITH DYNAMIC, PERSONALISED CONTENT AND JOB RECOMMENDATIONS

FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING

Surviving to Thriving was a unique partnership project between UpRising, British Red Cross and the Refugee Council. The project

supported refugees and asylum seekers aged 16 to 25 in Birmingham and the East of Englandwho don't have parents or guardians in the

UK . It provided life skills, advice, mental health support and leadership opportunities to help them rebuild their lives and thrive in the UK.

 UpRising's support focused on helping young people to use film to explore their experiences, challenges, fears and dreams.

 

The young people took up the roles of actor, script-writer, director, and film-maker to represent the perceptions and challenges they face

as unaccompanied refugee and asylumseeking children in the UK. The programmes empowered the young people to unlock their 

leadership potential and understand how they can affect real change through social action.

Many of the participants returned to volunteer on multiple Find Your Power programmes, increasing their skills development

even further.