Janet Thorne
@janetthorne.bsky.social
CEO of Reach Volunteering, Trustee of The Movements Trust.
Trying to distract myself from worrying about the state of the world
Trying to distract myself from worrying about the state of the world
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🚀 We’re live! 🚀
The new, upgraded Reach platform is here — making it even easier to volunteer your skills or post volunteer opportunities.
Check it out 👉 buff.ly/YZM5Nzx
We’d love your feedback — and your help spreading the word 💙
#ReachVolunteering #Launch #Volunteer
The new, upgraded Reach platform is here — making it even easier to volunteer your skills or post volunteer opportunities.
Check it out 👉 buff.ly/YZM5Nzx
We’d love your feedback — and your help spreading the word 💙
#ReachVolunteering #Launch #Volunteer
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚀 We’re live! 🚀
The new, upgraded Reach platform is here — making it even easier to volunteer your skills or post volunteer opportunities.
Check it out 👉 buff.ly/YZM5Nzx
We’d love your feedback — and your help spreading the word 💙
#ReachVolunteering #Launch #Volunteer
The new, upgraded Reach platform is here — making it even easier to volunteer your skills or post volunteer opportunities.
Check it out 👉 buff.ly/YZM5Nzx
We’d love your feedback — and your help spreading the word 💙
#ReachVolunteering #Launch #Volunteer
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Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too
We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
www.easterneye.biz
September 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too
We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
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Charities employ 1.25M staff and rely on 6.5M volunteers, no wonder they need HR expertise on their boards! Have you got HR skills? You could make a real impact as a #trustee. Check out some current roles in our video or browse more here: buff.ly/o1UTEA4 #Volunteering
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Charities employ 1.25M staff and rely on 6.5M volunteers, no wonder they need HR expertise on their boards! Have you got HR skills? You could make a real impact as a #trustee. Check out some current roles in our video or browse more here: buff.ly/o1UTEA4 #Volunteering
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Some people on the left have argued politics is destined to become 'blame the migrants vs blame the rich'.
Fair or not, this binary turns out to be a surprisingly useful question for dividing the country right down the middle!
Look at the generational splits, madness.
Fair or not, this binary turns out to be a surprisingly useful question for dividing the country right down the middle!
Look at the generational splits, madness.
August 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Some people on the left have argued politics is destined to become 'blame the migrants vs blame the rich'.
Fair or not, this binary turns out to be a surprisingly useful question for dividing the country right down the middle!
Look at the generational splits, madness.
Fair or not, this binary turns out to be a surprisingly useful question for dividing the country right down the middle!
Look at the generational splits, madness.
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What’s happening in Gaza is not a conflict.
It’s starvation, extermination, and the denial of an entire people’s right to live all in the name of security, religion, and history.
No law is above the life of a child. No land is sacred if it’s watered with innocent blood.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
It’s starvation, extermination, and the denial of an entire people’s right to live all in the name of security, religion, and history.
No law is above the life of a child. No land is sacred if it’s watered with innocent blood.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
July 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
What’s happening in Gaza is not a conflict.
It’s starvation, extermination, and the denial of an entire people’s right to live all in the name of security, religion, and history.
No law is above the life of a child. No land is sacred if it’s watered with innocent blood.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
It’s starvation, extermination, and the denial of an entire people’s right to live all in the name of security, religion, and history.
No law is above the life of a child. No land is sacred if it’s watered with innocent blood.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
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"Recent reports claim that there is a growing shortage of volunteers, but this is not a universal experience" - @janetthorne.bsky.social
Janet Thorne: Volunteering is thriving – just not where you’ve been looking
There is a consensus that volunteering is in decline, but news of its death has been greatly exaggerated
www.thirdsector.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"Recent reports claim that there is a growing shortage of volunteers, but this is not a universal experience" - @janetthorne.bsky.social
Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇
📢 Volunteering is thriving – Just not where you’ve been looking! 📢
It’s #VolunteersWeek - read the blog from our CEO, @Janet Thorne, challenging the perception that #volunteering is in decline: buff.ly/CGgSGQC
👇 Join the conversation 👇
Image: Daniela Yankova – @shadowschaser @fineacts
It’s #VolunteersWeek - read the blog from our CEO, @Janet Thorne, challenging the perception that #volunteering is in decline: buff.ly/CGgSGQC
👇 Join the conversation 👇
Image: Daniela Yankova – @shadowschaser @fineacts
June 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇
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🌟 Next week is officially our favourite week of the year! 🌟
Join us for #VolunteersWeek from 2 to 8 June as we celebrate skills-based #volunteering. Take a look at our video for the full line-up and if you feel inspired to find out more about volunteering your skills, go to: buff.ly/2LBxyky
Join us for #VolunteersWeek from 2 to 8 June as we celebrate skills-based #volunteering. Take a look at our video for the full line-up and if you feel inspired to find out more about volunteering your skills, go to: buff.ly/2LBxyky
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🌟 Next week is officially our favourite week of the year! 🌟
Join us for #VolunteersWeek from 2 to 8 June as we celebrate skills-based #volunteering. Take a look at our video for the full line-up and if you feel inspired to find out more about volunteering your skills, go to: buff.ly/2LBxyky
Join us for #VolunteersWeek from 2 to 8 June as we celebrate skills-based #volunteering. Take a look at our video for the full line-up and if you feel inspired to find out more about volunteering your skills, go to: buff.ly/2LBxyky
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Please can I ask for your help?
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Please can I ask for your help?
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
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Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
How voters for each party view the other parties
A Flourish data visualization by Paula Surridge
public.flourish.studio
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Good morning! Nearly 200 people have completed this survey so far. If you work in tech, no matter how loosely, and want to be part of a positive social movement, please take a look and share with your networks
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Fill out this survey, and help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
Survey: Society for Hopeful Technologists — Careful Industries
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Complete this survey to help shape the Society for Hopef...
www.careful.industries
April 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Good morning! Nearly 200 people have completed this survey so far. If you work in tech, no matter how loosely, and want to be part of a positive social movement, please take a look and share with your networks
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I’ve written for @thespectator1828.bsky.social about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...
April 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I’ve written for @thespectator1828.bsky.social about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...
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A really excellent discussion of what's desperately needed more than anything else: a vision of what we want our world to look like. Please read, share and consider.
Welcome back!
@davidrvetter.bsky.social on your closing question ‘So what in the name of this beautiful blue, green, finite Earth do we do next?’
Just published this, hope it could be a first step. ‘It’s Manifesto Time’
progressivestrategy.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-manif...
@davidrvetter.bsky.social on your closing question ‘So what in the name of this beautiful blue, green, finite Earth do we do next?’
Just published this, hope it could be a first step. ‘It’s Manifesto Time’
progressivestrategy.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-manif...
It's Manifesto Time
A citizen’s urgent plea for a new narrative
progressivestrategy.beehiiv.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A really excellent discussion of what's desperately needed more than anything else: a vision of what we want our world to look like. Please read, share and consider.
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Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
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We’re living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by what’s taking place around the world.
I want to remind Londoners that this is your home, and you are wanted here.
You help to make London what it is—the greatest city in the world.
I want to remind Londoners that this is your home, and you are wanted here.
You help to make London what it is—the greatest city in the world.
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We’re living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by what’s taking place around the world.
I want to remind Londoners that this is your home, and you are wanted here.
You help to make London what it is—the greatest city in the world.
I want to remind Londoners that this is your home, and you are wanted here.
You help to make London what it is—the greatest city in the world.
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Well, that's not good. Thank goodness we have such strong global leadership to tackle climate change.
We are in so much trouble.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We are in so much trouble.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C warming limit
Last year was the world's warmest on record, bringing temperatures above a politically symbolic milestone.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Well, that's not good. Thank goodness we have such strong global leadership to tackle climate change.
We are in so much trouble.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We are in so much trouble.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Morning. Happy New Year.
A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).
A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).
January 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Morning. Happy New Year.
A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).
A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).
Hair ice. Who knew of such a thing? Apparently it needs specific conditions - temperature, humidity and a fungus which creates anti freeze proteins 😍
January 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hair ice. Who knew of such a thing? Apparently it needs specific conditions - temperature, humidity and a fungus which creates anti freeze proteins 😍
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Writing isn't what you do after you have an idea. It's how you develop an inkling into an insight.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
December 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Writing isn't what you do after you have an idea. It's how you develop an inkling into an insight.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
The comments in this thread... This is what I have been missing since twitter. This, and the nature posts (pebble of the day, micro seasons)
December 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
The comments in this thread... This is what I have been missing since twitter. This, and the nature posts (pebble of the day, micro seasons)
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✊ Our united, cross-party call to MPs is clear.
🗳️ On 24 January, we need you to follow the science—and help secure a liveable future—by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill.
🐝 Join us—email your MP today—and ask them to back the #CANBill.
👉 action.zerohour.uk
🗳️ On 24 January, we need you to follow the science—and help secure a liveable future—by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill.
🐝 Join us—email your MP today—and ask them to back the #CANBill.
👉 action.zerohour.uk
November 27, 2024 at 5:46 PM
✊ Our united, cross-party call to MPs is clear.
🗳️ On 24 January, we need you to follow the science—and help secure a liveable future—by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill.
🐝 Join us—email your MP today—and ask them to back the #CANBill.
👉 action.zerohour.uk
🗳️ On 24 January, we need you to follow the science—and help secure a liveable future—by voting for the Climate and Nature Bill.
🐝 Join us—email your MP today—and ask them to back the #CANBill.
👉 action.zerohour.uk
Hardly get round to saying anything here, but am accumulating new followers at a rate I've never experienced anywhere before. My new followers don't seem to have much to say either 😂
Feels like the early stage of Monopoly when you collect everything you land on, just in case....
Feels like the early stage of Monopoly when you collect everything you land on, just in case....
December 4, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Hardly get round to saying anything here, but am accumulating new followers at a rate I've never experienced anywhere before. My new followers don't seem to have much to say either 😂
Feels like the early stage of Monopoly when you collect everything you land on, just in case....
Feels like the early stage of Monopoly when you collect everything you land on, just in case....
#BlackFriday is the frenzied gasp of late stage capitalism. #CitizenFriday is the future!
Resist consumer culture
Reconnect with life
Take action....
Resist consumer culture
Reconnect with life
Take action....
It's #CitizenFriday! What a great day to join @bsky.app. What can you do instead of #buying? Could you #volunteer your skills to support a #charity or group tackling society's biggest issues? Take a look at our platform for 1000s of different ways you could do your bit to help society.
November 29, 2024 at 6:00 PM
#BlackFriday is the frenzied gasp of late stage capitalism. #CitizenFriday is the future!
Resist consumer culture
Reconnect with life
Take action....
Resist consumer culture
Reconnect with life
Take action....