Gav Aitchison

Director of think tank Civil Exchange, expert on government and civil society, political commentator, ex senior civil servant and Private Secretary to two PMs, author of People Like Us and, out in June, Bad Government. Also on X.

Every year we work with hundreds of partners - from charities to governments to business - to help them navigate difficult climate communications and unlock more ambitious climate action. https://climateoutreach.org/

Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter

Geordie | Londoner | arts | gigs | good food and drink | transport geek | appalling memory | 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

We feed people and Foxes in York, North Yorkshire

The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.

Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics

Supporting the York Mystery Plays: keeping the story alive

Writer, birder, father, mental health advocate and pun enthusiast.

Dad, organizer, lawyer working to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate crimes. Opinions my own.

Head of communications at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

People-powered change strategist, movement researcher & organising nerd. Bi, Buddhist, Sailor. MCAS sufferer. Cis woman, trans ally. Always anti fascist. Not always as earnest as this profile makes me sound… She/her https://thinkingdoingchanging.com

Club golf editor at National Club Golfer. Hacker and sometime rules official. Hopeless lover of vinyl records.

Award-winning Senior Journalist 🗞️ Features Writer at The Mirror Projects #Peoplemove #Yr9No10 #BritainTalks #WiganPier80 Editor #UntoldStories #MirrorTogether 📍Notts lass! 🇵🇰 🇧🇭 MY VIEWS! www.mirror.co.uk/authors/maryam-qaiser

Strengthening the stories that unite us. publicinterest.org.uk 2020 Charity Governance Award Winner: Board Diversity and Inclusion

www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY

Formerly in Yorkshire, now living in Orkney. Lapsed activist, still talking politics. Pro-unions and strikes. Trans Lives Matter. Against all Imperialisms, not just the West. Too many interests to list. Neurodivergent. Christian, but not like that...

Director of Aspire, Betterforus campaign - all for blue sky thinking - posts on labour markets, procurement, equality, poverty, inequality and regeneration www.aspirecommunityworks.com www.betterforus.org.uk

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#PeopleMove Insta project by The Mirror, telling human stories behind the refugee crisis through a beloved object that connects them to home. Words: Maryam Qaiser & Claire Donnelly Editor: Ros Wynne-Jones Photographer: Phil Coburn instagram.com/peoplemove_

Daily Mirror special projects by Ros Wynne-Jones, Claire Donnelly & Maryam Qaiser Projects- #Yr9No10 #PeopleMove #BritainTalks #Europetalks #WiganPier80 We write stories for Real Britain, The Mirror's campaigning column 📝 https://tinyurl.com/bdbk8y49

DUniv - OBE - CF - Highlander Former #Nurse / National Lottery Community Fund 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Interests - #Food #Poverty #Environment and Nolan Principles. Forget my 👓 often expect typos.

Independent and impartial - providing the media with information, context and expert comment

Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar

Work @hrw.org on poverty, inequality, social security, human rights in Europe Migrant. Parent. Pedant. Anorak. #dadjokes. He/him. Barcelona-based. Work output here: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kartik-raj

Product person in central government, and part of OneTeamGov. Co-founded Glean, a design agency for international development. Manchester now, previously Birmingham, Dhaka and Phnom Penh. Good people doing good work together is my jam.

🇱🇻 Yes, this really is 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐄 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh's oldest and most successful football club 🫶 The UK's largest fan-owned club 💻 heartsfc.co.uk

TV journalist and documentary maker, founder @basementfilms, former editor @channel4news

CofE vicar, dad, theologian (esp church & mission, community & ecology, class & capitalism, race & whiteness, gender & masculinities). Listening, learning, wondering. #BeingInterrupted, staying with the trouble, decomposing mastery, making kin 🌍💚✊🏽🌈 he/him

Our goal is to grow and support a social movement that can reclaim dignity, agency and power. We're here on Bluesky to connect and share with all our partners in that growing movement.

Chocolate historian, author, broadcaster, archivist. Formerly the archivist at Nestle.co.uk, but now archiving at YorkshireTea.co.uk Published: HarperCollins.co.uk Rep'd: knightayton.co.uk Trustee: yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Or: alexthearchivist.com

faith based, the furnival, Sheffield, activist, Age UK, Methodist, Preacher, wawaw, my own views, Peace, Love, Justice, Climate, Sanctuary 🧡

Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE https://www.theguardian.com/profile/henry-dyer http://direthoughts.com

The Dales has many moods; wild, windswept, calm, peaceful, with valleys of hay meadows, dry stone walls and barns. One of the country’s most picturesque places. The official National Park Authority BlueSkySocial account

Wildlife, trees, terrestrial ecology, dark skies, night, corvids, coffee, cats. | Expressive Language Disorder. AuDHD. Nonverbal. Mutism (“situational”, “selective”). You do NOT have my permission to speak for me. Please don’t.

Make kin, build resilience. 🌈 Cultural Anthropologist: Animal, Disaster, and Japan Studies. Enthusiast of cryptids, pickles, and the way the light shines through the leaves.

#Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento

Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media

Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org

Culture | Narrative | Strategy Director of Evidence at FrameWorks UK. Trustee at PIRC.

Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ

Communications Lead for Nesta's Healthy Life mission - helping people live longer, healthier lives. Interested in health, food and social policy. South London via West Yorkshire. Views mine.

Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6

20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him 📍Co Down / Cambridge https://daramcanulty.com/

Creator of the Sturdy Wheelbarrows podcast and the grandson who continues to be persecuted for wearing jean shorts to his grandad's funeral :(

Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

Writer of Daily Mirror social justice column #RealBritain + special projects #Yr9No10 #PeopleMove #BritainTalks #WiganPierProject. Books include 'The Journey' with Abdul Musa Adam. Novellas, bread & border terrier enthusiast. @realbritainros over there.

Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com

Diplomat. UK High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago. I ♥️ chocolate, brew kombucha, and lift weights. Mother of 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐰 #vegan

Northern correspondent, Financial Times 📍Manchester

Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) Director | Anti-poverty campaigner advocating for #cashfirst or income-focused solutions to food insecurity and an end for the need for charitable food aid in the UK | Opinion pieces - www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/opinion

Reading, writing, pictures, and ducks.

Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk

Putting fairness at the heart of public debate and policymaking in the UK. https://linktr.ee/FairnessFoundation

The UK’s largest not-for-profit newsroom. Exposing injustice and sparking change 💪

Collaborate. Design. Innovate. Building relationships that improve lives. Catalyst for change towards inclusive and innovative solutions for good, growth and sustainability. Currently Strategic Lead for Welfare and Employment at National Citizen’s Advice.

North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes

Senior Media Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Media Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature

I lead care, work & family policy at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and think a lot about politics. Prev Citizens Advice, Trussell Trust.

Senior Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social https://www.jrf.org.uk/

Chief Analyst, Insights and Analysis, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation working to solve UK Poverty

We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish. https://www.jrf.org.uk/

Trying this out…desperately seeking sanity. CEO of Crisis. Chair of London Youth Theatre.

In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com

Christian interested in socio-economic justice. Chronically ill with hEDS, PoTS, fibro/Small Fibre Neuropathy. Independent (unpaid) researcher in chronic illness and social policy. Books: Second Class Citizens; Just Worship.

Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND

Values-led narrative & culture change. Part time @commoncause.bsky.social‬, part time freelance narrative strategist for hire 🌍✨🏳️‍🌈 www.ruthtaylor.org

Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer

Working class feminist academic. Research epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & media representations of poverty. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's. Intolerant - of misogyny and misogynists!

Guardian senior news writer, Derry Girl. Likes old stones and potatoes.

Writer.

Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.

Creator of the hope-based approach. My hope-based trainings are now available online at Rogue Union. Writing on https://hopebased.substack.com

Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/ Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.

A network of groups challenging corporate outdoor advertising and reclaiming public space for art, community and nature. Find us at www.adfreecities.org.uk & hello@adfreecities.org.uk Listen to the Adfree Cities podcast: https://bit.ly/3YKWoW8

Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.

Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent. Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn

Science at The Times My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN

Always in the Corner

Journalist, travel writer and sometime columnist. Writes for BBC, Telegraph, Nat Geo, The i. Associate editor of Positive News Magazine. Home is #Nunhead.

Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/

Following Jesus, husbanding and dadding, supporting #bcafc. Displaced Yorkshireman in Croydon. Governor @minsterinfants.bsky.social. Doing digital things for DWP and NHS. Formerly product at GDS and policy at OECD. https://bm.wel.by/

Journalist living and working in York, North Yorkshire, England. Mostly posting about topical issues, news, views and events in York and beyond.

Indie Bookshop in York. 🍏 Selling new books for adults and kids. 🍏 Signed books a speciality. 🍏 Next to York Minster. 🍏 Not quite as old.

Protecting the wildlife and wild places you love in Sheffield and Rotherham. Join us today - http://wildsheffield.com 📷 Jon Hawkins/SurreyHills Photography

We're a conservation charity dedicated to protecting nature in Cumbria. Become a member today to support wildlife and wild places! 🐿️🌱👇 https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/join

Protecting wildlife and promoting nature conservation in County Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside & Darlington. Please support our work & become a member today: www.durhamwt.com

Championing nature recovery in London, repairing our lost connection to the natural world since 1981. #LondonWildlifeTrust https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/

Sussex Wildlife Trust. For everyone who cares about nature in Sussex. Become a member, volunteer & support our campaigns. Header photo - Sprat shoal © Paul Parsons https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/

Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️‍🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈‍⬛ rep: @mfredturner

Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief. Wait... *Taps mic* Is this thing working? Work on/in/with BBC Radio 4 Best Small Fictions 2023 Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23 W/C ND She/Her.