Visionary launches new series of Lived Experience Matters podcasts
Nina Chesworth speaks to exciting new guests about their lived experience of being blind or partially sighted and to organisation leads about the importance of making lived experience matter.
The new series of Visionary podcasts follows on from last year’s podcasts, where Chris Wilsdon, Services Manager (Health and Wellbeing) at Kent Association for the Blind and Nina Chesworth, Lived Experience and Campaigns Co-ordinator at Visionary who are both blind and partially sighted spoke to five special guests, each with lived experience of vision impairment.
The podcasts are produced as part of the ‘Making Lived Experience Matter’ project funded by Fight for Sight which highlighted the importance and value of lived experience in organisations, at leadership level. Read more about the first podcast series here – Visionary launches Making Lived Experience Matter podcasts – Visionary and listen to them on Spotify.
In series two of the Visionary podcasts, we keep the focus on lived experience and how that looks for organisations as well as for individuals. We broadened our conversations, inviting organisations nationally to take part as well as those outside the sight loss sector to discuss their lived experience, thoughts and experiences. We hope the podcasts will open up conversations across the sector and inspire organisations to look at their lived experience representation.
Nina smiling with her long red hair open and wearing a lilac blouse and silver pendant.
Nina Chesworth, Visionary“This second series was bigger and really gave us the opportunity to delve a little deeper with organisations into their thoughts with lived experience representation. It was such a pleasure speaking with each person, it is great to see the conversation moving forward and finding ground.”
Thank you to our special podcast guests for taking part and look out for their podcasts on Spotify:
- Craig Spalding, CEO of Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans
- Emma Tracey, Journalist at BBC
- Holly Tuke, Social Media Officer at RNIB
- Iain Pearson, CEO and Andrew Coleman, Learning Skills and Lifestyle Manager at Galloways Society for the Blind
- Kerry Firth, Programme Manager at Fight for Sight
- Kevin Kelly, Head of Policy, Partnership and External Affairs, Vision Ireland
- Lowri Bartrum, CEO and Nia Greer, North Wales Service Manager at Vision Support
- Mohammed Salim, Journalist and Producer for BBC Breakfast News for North West
Thank you also to Andre Lewis Shorts who provided the music and Steve Nutt at Computer Rooms for editing the episodes.
Call to action
In order to get more people to understand the importance and value of “making lived experience matters”, there are some things everyone can do:
- Listen to the podcasts.
- Share the podcasts with at least one person, whether that’s inside the sight loss sector or outside the sector.
- Add lived experience to your meeting agendas.
- Tell us about your experiences by emailing Nina Chesworth.
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