Covid & I

Covid & I is a podcast created as part of the Sound Ideas To Share project.The national mental health charity Richmond Fellowship, which operates a skills-sharing network, Our Time for those who experience mental ill-health, partnered with Creative Lives and BBC Radio Merseyside to make this project happen.The project recruited people who had a passion for media, arts and culture to support those whose lives have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.Covid & I is a podcast for all those who felt the impact of covid by sharing positive stories of individuals and organisations who made positive changes to get through the pandemic. About Creative LivesCreative Lives is a registered charity that was established in 1991. We champion community and volunteer-led creative activity and work to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. In particular, we celebrate and promote people expressing themselves creatively with others, recognising the benefits this can bring. Creative Lives support and encourage people to be creative in their everyday lives, find out more by visiting www.creative-lives.org.We are delighted to partner with Timebanking UK and the Richmond Fellowship to support people in Merseyside to express themselves creatively and learn fundamental skills about podcasting making and the media.

Episodes

Laura Yates, community producer talks Human Libraries

Episode #7 Laura Yates is a community producer for an arts programme covering Bootle, Sefton, and Crosby Libraries, aptly named, Human Libraries. She talks of the many arts, domestic and nature initiatives they’ve organised and run for the comm...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 8 • 19:33

Kyle Dowling, pub landlord talks about the challenges of lockdown

Episode #6 Listen to Kyle Dowling, a pub landlord who talks about the challenges he faced personally and professionally from the beginning of the pandemic. From a tough start of having to close down his pub, he turned everything around for hims...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 7 • 17:51

John McGlone speak about the challenges of homelessness

Episode #5 John McGlone speaks about the challenges of homelessness, and not just the obvious problems but also the tricky issue of what to do with your pets! John discusses the ways in which he believes civic services everywhere, unfortunately...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 6 • 19:58

Harry and Rupert talk about their social enterprise ‘6% And Rising’

Episode #2 Listen to Harry Georgiou CEO and Rupert Pearce Co-Founder talk about their social enterprise ‘6% And Rising’, which was started during the pandemic, 6% and Rising aims to get more disabled people into the job market with the straplin...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 3 • 18:02

Sophie Gallagher Chair of MENCAP Members Voice

Episode #4 Sophie Gallagher, a young woman with an unusual but very inspirational lockdown journey. She’s Chair of MENCAP Members Voice and has come a long way since March 2020, helping other MENCAP associates navigate the online world of Zoom,...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 5 • 10:23

Michelle Walters talks switching careers from law to business to podcast host

Episode #1 with Michelle Walters, she talks about the reason behind switching careers, from law to business and launching her own podcast, ‘Talk On To Walk On’, along the way. She discussed Timebanking, a project aiming to tackle social isolati...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 2 • 19:42

Andrea Woods, Operations Manager of Sefton New Directions talks Covid, flexibility and supporting learners

Episode #3 Andrea Woods talks about her role as Operations Manager in Sefton New Directions. When Lockdown came into effect, they began collating as much Government information about the pandemic as they could, in order to better educate the vu...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 4 • 14:49

Welcome to the Covid and I podcast Introduction

The intro episode gives you a snapshot of the contributors of our Covid and I podcast, we hope you can feel the positive vibes of this uplifting podcastWe would like to thank all those who contributed to the podcast to make it happen&nbs...

March 21, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 1 • 4:28