TheHoIT (Sean B)

2026 is the year of fresh opportunities! Our work is expanding across the UK and as our trustee you will help us to think differently, do differently, and to challenge the status quo.

Sounds exciting? Get in touch with @ewanhilton.bsky.social for a chat and read more platfform.org/about-us/joi...

Become a Platfform Trustee We are interested in talking to people from all backgrounds, sectors, work, and life experiences who feel a connection and commitment to our values and purpose.

We are looking for people to join our @platfform.org Board of Trustees. - a great opportunity to help shape and support our work. - all you need to know is here platfform.org/about-us/joi... and pls pls share share share

Platfform's Employment Team works hard all year round to support people back into work. Last year, the team supported 689 people in Gwent - either to find employment or volunteering opps, or by offering mental health & wellbeing support.

👉 Find out more: email gwentoows@platfform.org

#EmpDay2025

Join the Platfform team as our Head of Policy and Campaigns - deadline this Friday! Apply here: tinyurl.com/platfform-po...

There's great momentum in Wales towards a better future for mental health. Could you lead our policy and campaigns work as we play our part in making sure that future happens?

If you could be our new Head of Policy and Campaigns, you’ve got 10 days left to let us know!

Join the movement for mental health – and use your knowledge of Welsh politics and your passion for social change to build a brighter future.

Apply by 20th June: buff.ly/lJGcKjL

"Trekker". Also #pedant 😛

🔍 We're hiring an ICT Coordinator!

Help manage Platfform's IT estate and support its staff across Wales

💻 Swansea based with travel to other offices
📅 Closes 13/06/2025
💼 Salary £28000
📢 Know someone perfect for this? Tag them!

#CharityJobs #ITJobs #DigitalTransformation #SwanseaJobs #HiringNow

Could you or someone you know be @platfform.org new Head of Policy & Campaigns - interesting, exciting & worrying times -upcoming Welsh election, new MH Strategy, local elections. Much to do to ensure mental health of population of Wales improves & that issues of social justice are solved 👇👇👇👇

An image shows a person in a health evaluation setting. Text on the image reads: Strengths Based Learning 2025. Challenging the dominant narrative of mental health. 22/05, 9:30-11:30am, online.

In two weeks! We're holding a free online learning webinar. Join us for a look into the history of mental health, whether current approaches are effective - and what's getting in the way of working in a strengths-based way.

Book your place here: buff.ly/2cvzNGD

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...

We're hiring an ICT Co-ordinator!

Looking for your next role in IT? Platfform is looking for a special person with the right skills to keep the organisation connected! If you've worked in a similar ICT role get in touch. Apply online at platfform.org or contact SeanBolton@platfform.org for details.

Not long to go. Get your application in fast! #job #itjobs

Our 'new-look' website for young people is live 🥳

It's home to information about support available through our projects as well as blogs and resources written and created by young people for young people.

Check it out and share with others platfform4yp.org

Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Join @platfform.org as our ICT Coordinator! Lead digital upgrades, support teams, and keep systems secure. Be the tech hero we need!
Location: Swansea
Deadline: 2 May 2025
Apply: platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’ believing the innocent had everything to fear mostly from the guilty but..even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’..”
Terry Pratchett; Snuff
#Discworld #ComingForStudents #TrumpsAmerica 🇺🇸

Thinking of the situation in Gaza, I am having a Pratchett moment

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

Terry Pratchett

Tonyrefail school wins £1k top prize for Platfform - Herald.Wales TONYREFAIL Community School in Rhondda Cynon Taf has chosen Platfform to receive a £1,000 grant, won at a competition organised by London-based charity

Huge thank you to the pupils of Tonyrefail Communtiy school for your support

www.herald.wales/south-wales/...

I will say this and continue to say this until the day I leave this mortal coil.

Read Discworld.

All of it.

Terry Pratchett Brainrot will save you.

Sparking Joy - Creating environments for young people to thrive | F&LI Foundation A review of the evidence-base and need to create the conditions for young people to spark joy and thrive.

We are delighted to contribute to Ferdinando & Luigi Innocenti Foundation's ambitious vision through our report Sparking Joy: Creating thriving environments for young people to thrive, written by Dr Jen Daffin fli.foundation/news/sparkin...

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King o...

It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop.

berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Shape your services: acute and crisis mental health care - Platfform Have you experienced acute or crisis mental health care services in Wales in the last five years?

Have you worked in a third sector organisation supporting people to access mental health crisis services? Or helped someone you care for to access services?

We're running an online session on 5th March to hear your views for a new report to NHS Wales. Your experiences could shape future support.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare contemplate.

Depressingly appropriate Terry Pratchett quote.

It’s essential that we keep building the movement for social change and the future of mental health. As part of Wales Week London, we’re bringing together social change makers, industry leaders and supporters across sectors. 

👉 Register your interest: https://bit.ly/4k7FFX1

Leaders and Changemakers: building a better future together (Wales Week in London) We understand the power of collaboration in driving our mission for positive change. Join us for an evening, as recognise and build our collective efforts towards a more compassionate approach to ment...

Our Wales Week London event is back 🙌.

Join social change leaders across the 3rd, public & private sector to hear about Platfform’s journey and hopes for the future ❤️.

Meet others, spark ideas & celebrate our collective impact to end injustice.

📝Sign up platfform.org/get-involved...

It was great to welcome Jane Dodds MS to The Hangout project in Cardiff today – delivered alongside Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

Thanks, Jane, for taking the time to pop by and see this community-based approach to mental health! (1/2)

The Truth Project - Platfform Platfform’s Truth Project is our approach to hearing and bearing witness to people’s experiences. We will be looking at different aspects of the mental health system, and more widely, to understand wh...

Platfform has been gathering people's stories of receiving, or working with, the diagnosis of personality disorder. These stories will help inform what we call for as a charity, and offer a public perspective on the diagnosis.

Visit platfform.org/truthproject for more info.

Personality disorder patients let down by 'misleading' diagnosis Jessica Matthews was 21 when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

The diagnosis of personality disorder can hide the experiences and trauma that contribute to distress.

We are asking for a review of use of this diagnosis, the ways in which it is used, and the implications this has on people’s ability to access support.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hate and division cannot win.

Love, compassion and humanity is the answer.

Proud that @platfform.org are standing together in solidarity with our friends in Welsh Refugee Council ❤️.