Ooh! I’d love a copy of this for our little library at SELFA Charity 🥰

Literally the most amazing thing you will ever see is the Madonna and Child made out of toast in Haworth Church! For scale it’s over 7ft tall and made of 160 slices of white bread. Forget about the Brontë sisters, it’s all about #ToastJesus for me!

The wonderful Lydia Smith shares her experience of childbirth in Metro with some sage advice too #LivedExperience

Life is more FUN when we are with SELFA! youtu.be/piSlTyscKL4?si…

A wonderful piece in Big Issue about SELFA Charity and the amazing work we do! Big Issue North

My bio on Sounddelivery Media has had a refresh! sounddelivery.org.uk/alumni/emma-pe… If you're looking for a lived experience speaker there are over 40 of us listed on the website

13 years ago today my role with North Yorkshire Council was made redundant and I decided to make a “proper go” of running the charity we’d set up 4 years earlier. Now SELFA Charity supports over 500 children every year, an amazing legacy of the Extended Schools Service in Craven!

📣We are looking for a Team Leader to join our Safe Spaces Children and Young People’s (CYP) Service in #Shipley
To provide day to day supervision of a team of Crisis Support Workers to ensure the effective running of the service.

📌Full details 👉 thecellartrust.org/about-the-cell…

A fantastic film about SELFA made by our young people!

SoulPurpose360 CIC Kellie Maggie Gordon-Walker Ellie Hatto #BesideYourself To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay today we teamed up with some of #SDMNetwork who shared what the #IWD2024 theme #InspireInclusion means to them Sharon McPherson Johanna_FIH @amandajhailes Anna Wardley @jliffe Emma Pears (she/her) (2/2)

👇THIS is how you support charities as a funder!!!👇

SELFA smile project is our inter-generational group. We meet at Ashfield care home each week, the young people have conducted mini interviews with the residents to get to know them better! Age Friendly North Yorkshire

Did YOU know your local GP has a Social Prescribing Service?

The GR8 Minds team provides one-to-one support to children and young people aged 5-25. A young person can self-refer by visiting gr8minds.co.uk or ask a teacher or parent/carer to contact them.

Read Emma Pears (she/her) from the #SMNetwork 's guest blog IVAR where she shared her three wishes for grant-makers and how small changes can make a big difference to the charity sector.

An important read from our friends IVAR!

Explore five thoughtful pieces to celebrate three years of Open and Trusting Grantmaking and how and why their funding practices have changed.

It bothers me when I hear 'compassion' & 'relationships' framed as tools to pave the way for the 'doing'. As if the relational side is just a kind of strategy to enable the 'real work'. Can we flip this round? Caring about relationships is central, & it matters that it's genuine.

An interesting read. The report repeatedly acknowledges the impact that social determinants of health inequalities have on the mental health of children and parents #childrensmentalhealth

🆕report!

Time to end the dominance of short-term grants: The evidence for multi-year funding. 📃

The words below speak volumes 📢 if funders shift their practices, more charities can experience the benefits and reassurance of multi-year funding.