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Practical tools, guides and examples to support stigma-free practice and help drive change in your context
How to take these ideas into your context
Support conversations about stigma-free practice and help drive change in your organisation or community Following the Stigma Free Futures online launch event in September 2026, our intention is for you to use these resources, practical tools, learning and ideas in your space and with the community you’re involved with. We want you to honour the integrity of the Stigma Free Futures work, but by all means, borrow the ideas, build on them and make them better. Stigma Free Futur
stigmafreefutures
17 hours ago2 min read
How to take these ideas into your context
Support conversations about stigma-free practice and help drive change in your organisation or community Following the Stigma Free Futures online launch event in September 2026, our intention is for you to use these resources, practical tools, learning and ideas in your space and with the community you’re involved with. We want you to honour the integrity of the Stigma Free Futures work, but by all means, borrow the ideas, build on them and make them better. Stigma Free Futur
stigmafreefutures
17 hours ago
Stigma Sucks: addressing stigma to overcome poverty
In this blog Steve Arnott, Founder, and CEO of Beats Bus Records and member of the Exploring Stigma and Poverty design team, shares how important personal lived experience is to the work the group is doing. I’m part of the ‘Exploring Stigma and Poverty’ design team, a group that’s been created to look at the issue of stigma and the impact it has on poverty. Our discussions and exploration have been deep as well as wide-ranging. When we met in January 2023 we looked at the imp
stigmafreefutures
Aug 24
Reflections on stigma and poverty in the UK
The JRF ‘Exploring Stigma and Poverty’ design team met in January 2023 to explore how stigma plays out in society and impacts poverty in the UK. In this blog post Hal Khanom, Head of Economic Development at Bromley Council, shares her reflections of the day. I’m on the train back to London from the session, glued to my phone reading Judith Herman’s ‘Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence’. I’m reading about abuse because I was struck by one insight we uncovered whilst
stigmafreefutures
Aug 24
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