CEO: The Cellar Trust mental health. West Yorkshire Partnership Integrated Care Board & Senior Responsible Officer for Power of Communities. VMO. She/Her. MBE
May 15, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Long🧵 Some thoughts on WFH
- @CellarTrust I can't imagine us ever going back to the way things were before. The team WFH were AMAZING & I was so proud of our Day 1 mobilisation. Remember our big fire? We were prepared! But when you run services like ours there is a human cost.
The ✅ was we saw more different people from further afield... people who didn't want to travel or people for whom physical attendance felt too scary or even too stigmatising. For others, where we are sometimes their own human contact, the lack of in-person connection was
Feb 6, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
1/13 A v.long thread on leadership burn-out. I have been having lots of conversations with leaders recently. I'm lucky to get to work with many, many brilliant leaders in different settings in our system. This wk I ran some Leading Through Adversity (looking after your own MH,
2/13 & the MH of your team) Masterclasses for Headteachers & school SLTs. We are talking A LOT about system risks. This HAS to be in the top 3 for me. We are seeing people falling over, people resigning, people close to resigning, people on longterm sick, people walking the tight
Jul 3, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A long thread about funding & tough decisions:
😔 Covid is having a huge impact on our sector. We are #nevermoreneeded but many orgs will shrink or disappear
😢 We aren't going anywhere we promise but that has meant some v.hard decisions.
😢 But #VCS is used to hard decisions
💜 Lots of you won't remember but The Cellar has been at rock bottom lots of times. When I arrived nearly 6 yrs ago we were v.close to closure.
💪🏼 Getting to where we are now: a strong, sustainable, award winning org took a brilliant team working v.hard
Jun 7, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I'm sorry that it has taken me a long time to find the right words. Long thread ⬇️ #BlackLivesMatter
Over recent weeks the stark reality of the disproportionate effect of Covid on BAME communities has slapped us in the face.
Yet this, should in reality be no surprise, when the huge inequalities in our society have been presented to us time and time again, for as long as any of us can remember.