A Common Eastern Bumblebee on the far left side of the photo clings on top-at an angle-to some pink Stonecrop blooms at the end of a plum-colored stem. More blooms and a few green leaves appear to the right of and below it. Aother stem protrudes to the left at the same angle from the top right corner. The background is blurred flowers, stems, and leaves, mostly below the bee, and blurred gray stone in the middle and top.

TIme to get to work🐝

Wishng you a productive and satisfying Monday!

#ColorADay #PinkMon #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #ECK #flowers #bloomscrolling #bee #insect #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

Nature. Curiosity. Accessible design. Future thinking.

#Facilitate2026 is something else entirely.

From forest bathing to inclusive design.

Five days.
One carefully designed space.

👉 Explore the programme: lnkd.in/eMMWCqpJ
🎟️ Get your ticket: lnkd.in/e-DuA82T

Lessons in Independent Filmmaking: Budgeting and Data Disasters YouTube video by Wildsound Festival

Lessons in #Independent #Filmmaking: Budgeting and Data Disasters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1s...

Peter Andrew Coutavas chats with Matthew Toffolo about the art of budgeting your indy film. Make sure you have a contingency budget and you over-budget things. Simply said, don’t run out of money.

Piece is by @colinyeo.bsky.social, a key expert voice in immigration law. Knowledgeable, measured, moral. Do follow him if you want to understand what's going on.

Just going to leave this here

📢 We're seeking a communications officer.

We're looking for a skilled communicator with strong written, analytical, interpersonal skills, who has a good awareness of current affairs and a genuine care for, and interest in, the work we support to address the root causes of conflict and injustice.

Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our first Bike Library of the year!

We're in Springfield Park, Castleton helping residents of Rochdale and Greater Manchester get access to rental bikes as well as providing tuition on safe riding and maintenance.

It's good to be back!

Community Outreach Officer (Maternity Cover) - The Ramblers Job Title: Community Outreach Officer (Scotland) Team:   Ramblers Scotland Contract: Fixed-term 9 months (with potential to extend) Location: Scotland (Home-based or hybrid with access to ...

Want to help @ramblersscotland.bsky.social make sure the outdoors is for everyone? We're looking for an experienced outdoor leader to temporarily lead our outreach work with refugees, asylum seeks & global majority communities theramblers-1651591500.teamtailor.com/jobs/7060437...

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Show us your autumn leaves! 🍁 Show us the trees and other plants with resplendent foliage that you've seen by adding a photo below, and we'll share some of our favourites.

Civil society leaders group launches to ‘bring expert insight’ into heart of government

A new civil society group aiming to “bring expert insight into the heart of government” has launched

Calendar: Programmes, Retreats, Events, Opportunities — Coaching and Rural Retreats

Looking for individuals for next action learning cohorts - start Oct or Jan. 6 facilitated online meetings with a small group of carefully selected peers - safe confidential supportive space to explore new perspectives, skills, solutions. Info via my website www.underthecarobtrees.com/calendar

A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media is the second of two reports analysing parliamentary and media debates from 2010-2024, and shows how large sections of these debates encouraged widespread hostility to migrants.

Our government and media are complicit in enabling racist violence, our latest report shows.

One year since the racist riots broke out across the UK, violence which has continued since, those in power cannot continue to deny their enabling role.

Read the report here 👉 www.runnymedetrust.o...

Have children and in/near Colchester, Essex this Saturday? Pop into Colchester Family Fest. Say hello to Fi who'll be on a stand. Try her movement for rebuilding confidence taster session 1.55 - or refer someone for her 'survivor steps' weekly movement class starting Sept. www.bemoredandelion.com

Join the PIRC team… – PIRC We've got a lot happening! Team Vacancies: Deadline to apply: 9.00am 30th June 2025 Head of Operations Your main role is to be a senior member of the PIRC team,

3 jobs currently advertised by PIRC, Wales who 'work with civil society to strengthen the stories that unite us'.
Head of Programmes, Head of Operations and Freelance Fundraiser (remote). Deadline 30thJune25. More info: publicinterest.org.uk/join/

If you want to "leave" the ECHR, which of these rights do you want to give up for yourself and your family?

This webinar for parents and teachers is coming up on Tuesday early eve- a few places are still available. Donation from each ticket goes to CALM. Get yours here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/helping-te...

NEW: Lifting the two-child limit and the benefit cap will immediately lift 400,000 children out of poverty, and 950,000 children will be living in less deep poverty.

Johnny Marr's advice for aspiring musicians, reposted from the excellent @epidemicsound.bsky.social

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL COACHING WEEK!

If any of you fancy a free 45 min coaching session, get in touch by 18th May.

I'm on holiday for the next few weeks, so I've been working with some brilliant writers on pieces for my Substack.

This week Laura Basu has written this moving and inspiring piece on the politics of love - check it out graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-answer...

On behalf of the Charity AI Task Force, we and @zoeamar.bsky.social have today responded to the government's AI Opportunities Action Plan, urging immediate engagement with the VCSE sector, in order to ensure that adoption of #AI across the UK is fair, representative and equitable 👉 buff.ly/iDR0MmN

Don't even notice when there's a continental power outage though!

Snow capped mountains reflected in blue lake

Happy #NationalPetDay!

2 day a week, Manchester Producer role for Streetwise Opera - Deadline 14th April 25

Still open!

The Big Freelancer Survey has been extended to Monday 21st April so we can hear from even more freelancers.

We’re close to matching last year’s numbers—let’s get there together.

📝 👉 linktr.ee/BigFreelance...
#BigFreelancerSurvey #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork