Intersectional Reporting

Defining Intersectionality

28 March, 10:00-15:00 (in person)

After introductions and time for cohort building, this kick-off session will discuss how to define intersectionality and what it means to each charity participant, taking into account their unique experiences, challenges and goals. The session will also involve participants in co-creating a set of values and principles that will underpin future work and be applied to activity across the programme.

Framing your stories – Part 1

11 April, 10:00-12:30 (online)

This session will draw on Dawn and Jon’s previous research to explore the intersectional frames they’ve identified that are commonly used in international reporting and storytelling. The session will discuss the benefits, limitations, and implications of each of these frames.

Framing your stories – Part 2

25 April, 10:00-12:30 (online)

Building on the insights uncovered in the previous workshop, this third session will focus on participants co-creating a small series of frames tailored to each charity and their beneficiaries to help them reshape their stories and messaging for future communications.

We plan to invite an experienced journalist to join this session to share their perspective and advice on trying to place intersectional case studies and stories in the media.

Collaboration and the voice of lived experience

9 May, 10:00-15:00 (in person)

We hope to invite the cohort to join this fourth workshop in person, as we will be exploring collaboration in more depth. This session will focus on the ways charities can work together both within the third sector and beyond when creating and placing intersectional stories.

We also plan to invite an external guest contributor to discuss the ethics and considerations of working with those with lived experience while drawing on their own examples of media engagement and what worked well and what did not.

The power of challenging misinformation and misrepresentation

23 May, 10:00-12:30 (online)

In this final workshop, we will look at the power of data to support intersectional approaches to storytelling and to challenge misinformation and misrepresentation.

In this session, we will also work with participants to finalise a practical action plan to consolidate and apply all their learnings beyond the programme.

Dawn Hart was formerly the Deputy Director for the Centre for Public Innovation, and has extensive experience working in direct delivery, policy development and management in the fields of criminal justice, substance misuse and young people. In 2018, she also served as Interim Head of Community Engagement at the Greater London Authority.

All her work is within the public sector with participatory voice at the centre of everything she does. She has been working in a freelance capacity for the last 17 tears, developing and delivering training, evaluation, coaching and leadership development.

Her clients have included the National Children’s Bureau, Centrepoint, Dudley Council, Tower Hamlets Council, College of Policing, Department for International Development, and the Greenwich Recovery College.

Dawn has a strong interest in how narratives are constructed. She has recently completed training in Narrative Therapy and an MA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel is due to published in December 2022.

Jon Flinn was lead author on Lankelly Chase’s Telling a Different Story report on news coverage of multiple and severe disadvantage.

A former journalist, he is Communications Director at DHA, a specialist policy, research and communications agency and is currently working with Crisis on the on-going evaluation of a four-year project supporting charities and journalists to reframe language and thinking around homelessness.

Jon has spent 20 years helping UK charities get their messages heard and has delivered more than 200 communications training sessions for organisations as diverse as youth club umbrella group, London Youth, and international environmental and human rights campaigners, Global Witness.