Matthew Hocking
@matthoc.bsky.social
Trying to live more slowly, an occupational therapist amongst other things.
All views shared are strictly my own.
All views shared are strictly my own.
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Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid.
Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
“Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1.” Musician and activist Brian Eno explains why one song in particular matters this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid.
Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
Even better that you can activate it even if you’re unsure of your travel dates, but where to go? 😊
Less than 48h left to buy an Interrail pass with 25% discount (I already have!). Buy now, activate any date in next 11 months.
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Even better that you can activate it even if you’re unsure of your travel dates, but where to go? 😊
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www.gatehousetheatre.co.uk/whatson-even...
If you want to see a Lived Experience Recovery Organization bringing an age old story of human endeavour to life with heart and humour, book now!
If you want to see a Lived Experience Recovery Organization bringing an age old story of human endeavour to life with heart and humour, book now!
Wake Up Sammy - Stafford Gatehouse Theatre
A journey of one man’s life told by the people he met, loved and inspired. We celebrate the good times and reflect on how friendship and self belief can overcome life's trials and tribulations. A stor...
www.gatehousetheatre.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
www.gatehousetheatre.co.uk/whatson-even...
If you want to see a Lived Experience Recovery Organization bringing an age old story of human endeavour to life with heart and humour, book now!
If you want to see a Lived Experience Recovery Organization bringing an age old story of human endeavour to life with heart and humour, book now!
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If our cities are shaped by stories, then great books form the foundation of knowledge and inspiration needed to build more liveable, inclusive and prosperous places.
These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.
These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.
December 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
If our cities are shaped by stories, then great books form the foundation of knowledge and inspiration needed to build more liveable, inclusive and prosperous places.
These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.
These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.
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Last open day of the year today, we enjoyed chatting to potential future #OccupationalTherapists and telling them all about our wonderful profession 💚
If you are thinking you might #ChooseOT as a career or just want to know more visit our website or drop us an email:
[email protected]
If you are thinking you might #ChooseOT as a career or just want to know more visit our website or drop us an email:
[email protected]
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Last open day of the year today, we enjoyed chatting to potential future #OccupationalTherapists and telling them all about our wonderful profession 💚
If you are thinking you might #ChooseOT as a career or just want to know more visit our website or drop us an email:
[email protected]
If you are thinking you might #ChooseOT as a career or just want to know more visit our website or drop us an email:
[email protected]
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Just 4 days left on the Interrail sale: 25% off passes. Buy yours here 👉 www.interrail.eu/en
This is our best budget tip for comfort flight-free travel – don't miss it!
And read our guide to Interrail here 👇
This is our best budget tip for comfort flight-free travel – don't miss it!
And read our guide to Interrail here 👇
How to interrail
A guide to using Europe's rail-travel pass, Interrail
flightfree.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Just 4 days left on the Interrail sale: 25% off passes. Buy yours here 👉 www.interrail.eu/en
This is our best budget tip for comfort flight-free travel – don't miss it!
And read our guide to Interrail here 👇
This is our best budget tip for comfort flight-free travel – don't miss it!
And read our guide to Interrail here 👇
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Dementia care news:
• Dementia Frontiers Fund launched → buff.ly/7bABAEW
• Carers UK State of Caring 2025 → buff.ly/fd0E8V4
• Care Innovation Challenge 2026 → buff.ly/NDv4AbT
• Alzheimer's Society advice for cold weather → buff.ly/FrLdIwH
• Dementia Frontiers Fund launched → buff.ly/7bABAEW
• Carers UK State of Caring 2025 → buff.ly/fd0E8V4
• Care Innovation Challenge 2026 → buff.ly/NDv4AbT
• Alzheimer's Society advice for cold weather → buff.ly/FrLdIwH
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Dementia care news:
• Dementia Frontiers Fund launched → buff.ly/7bABAEW
• Carers UK State of Caring 2025 → buff.ly/fd0E8V4
• Care Innovation Challenge 2026 → buff.ly/NDv4AbT
• Alzheimer's Society advice for cold weather → buff.ly/FrLdIwH
• Dementia Frontiers Fund launched → buff.ly/7bABAEW
• Carers UK State of Caring 2025 → buff.ly/fd0E8V4
• Care Innovation Challenge 2026 → buff.ly/NDv4AbT
• Alzheimer's Society advice for cold weather → buff.ly/FrLdIwH
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💙 Supporting people living with dementia starts with the right knowledge & care. Our accessible, person‑centred resources for the adult social care workforce covers:
✔️ Prevention ✔️Before/after diagnosis ✔️Support ✔️Family carers ✔️End of life care
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pSH6um
✔️ Prevention ✔️Before/after diagnosis ✔️Support ✔️Family carers ✔️End of life care
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pSH6um
December 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
💙 Supporting people living with dementia starts with the right knowledge & care. Our accessible, person‑centred resources for the adult social care workforce covers:
✔️ Prevention ✔️Before/after diagnosis ✔️Support ✔️Family carers ✔️End of life care
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pSH6um
✔️ Prevention ✔️Before/after diagnosis ✔️Support ✔️Family carers ✔️End of life care
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pSH6um
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Great listen on a huge scandal . Worth checking out . . .
New Episode!
❄️🐻❄️❄️
The Secret Trade in Polar Bears
🐻❄️❄️🐻❄️
How do you save an animal everyone thinks is already protected?! David talks with award-winning filmmaker, @abrahamjoffe.bsky.social, who's trying to do just that.
www.treesacrowd.fm/abraham-joff...
❄️🐻❄️❄️
The Secret Trade in Polar Bears
🐻❄️❄️🐻❄️
How do you save an animal everyone thinks is already protected?! David talks with award-winning filmmaker, @abrahamjoffe.bsky.social, who's trying to do just that.
www.treesacrowd.fm/abraham-joff...
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Great listen on a huge scandal . Worth checking out . . .
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NEW: 50+ transport and health groups have written to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3, as well as a comprehensive plan for a national active travel network, matching the long-term strategic focus given to roads.
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
NEW: 50+ transport and health groups have written to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3, as well as a comprehensive plan for a national active travel network, matching the long-term strategic focus given to roads.
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Our next webinar is tomorrow.
Last chance to register. Sign up closes at midnight tonight.
Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2 to 3pm (UK time)
Speaker: Alison Keizer
Register:
buff.ly/V0LlEej
Follow us on Eventbrite:
buff.ly/QIDwALo
Last chance to register. Sign up closes at midnight tonight.
Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2 to 3pm (UK time)
Speaker: Alison Keizer
Register:
buff.ly/V0LlEej
Follow us on Eventbrite:
buff.ly/QIDwALo
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Our next webinar is tomorrow.
Last chance to register. Sign up closes at midnight tonight.
Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2 to 3pm (UK time)
Speaker: Alison Keizer
Register:
buff.ly/V0LlEej
Follow us on Eventbrite:
buff.ly/QIDwALo
Last chance to register. Sign up closes at midnight tonight.
Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2 to 3pm (UK time)
Speaker: Alison Keizer
Register:
buff.ly/V0LlEej
Follow us on Eventbrite:
buff.ly/QIDwALo
Sustainability in sport, FGR leading the way.
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sustainability in sport, FGR leading the way.
I’m English by birth/residence but have for most of my adult life unconsciously developed and enjoyed a strong identity as a #european .
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’m English by birth/residence but have for most of my adult life unconsciously developed and enjoyed a strong identity as a #european .
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This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Tried this cashew cheeze, made with live cultures and remarkably it has wonderful texture and is creamy whilst being #dairyfree
I’m dipping a toe into artisan nut cheeses, I’d previously declined to try them but am pleasantly surprised.
I’m dipping a toe into artisan nut cheeses, I’d previously declined to try them but am pleasantly surprised.
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Tried this cashew cheeze, made with live cultures and remarkably it has wonderful texture and is creamy whilst being #dairyfree
I’m dipping a toe into artisan nut cheeses, I’d previously declined to try them but am pleasantly surprised.
I’m dipping a toe into artisan nut cheeses, I’d previously declined to try them but am pleasantly surprised.
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Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
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December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...
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I should add that the post below was accessed via @thercot.bsky.social Innovation Cafe Sustainable Healthcare, great work by those involved in the project.
The benefits of OT’s using E-bikes for local access visits went way beyond reduced carbon emissions and financial costs, health and well-being of the clinicians was also positively impacted. #SusQi @thercot.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I should add that the post below was accessed via @thercot.bsky.social Innovation Cafe Sustainable Healthcare, great work by those involved in the project.
The benefits of OT’s using E-bikes for local access visits went way beyond reduced carbon emissions and financial costs, health and well-being of the clinicians was also positively impacted. #SusQi @thercot.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The benefits of OT’s using E-bikes for local access visits went way beyond reduced carbon emissions and financial costs, health and well-being of the clinicians was also positively impacted. #SusQi @thercot.bsky.social
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There are over 3,800 OTs working in social care. Its so important their voice is heard as it develops proposals for long term reform of the sector. 👏
Three occupational therapists represented the OT profession in evidence sessions for the Casey Commission on Social Care.
FInd out more about the evidence sessions, our future plans and have your say in the Commission: https://loom.ly/uGfsqsI
FInd out more about the evidence sessions, our future plans and have your say in the Commission: https://loom.ly/uGfsqsI
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
There are over 3,800 OTs working in social care. Its so important their voice is heard as it develops proposals for long term reform of the sector. 👏
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Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
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Joining Erasmus+ is essential for restoring young people's freedom, allowing them to study, work, and explore different cultures across Europe. This is a positive step.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Joining Erasmus+ is essential for restoring young people's freedom, allowing them to study, work, and explore different cultures across Europe. This is a positive step.
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The new issue of the Journal of Dementia Care is now out - and completely free to read!
📄 Web version: buff.ly/q55Unbh
📘 PDF download: buff.ly/Ld7652n
This special November/December edition focuses on technology in dementia care.
📄 Web version: buff.ly/q55Unbh
📘 PDF download: buff.ly/Ld7652n
This special November/December edition focuses on technology in dementia care.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The new issue of the Journal of Dementia Care is now out - and completely free to read!
📄 Web version: buff.ly/q55Unbh
📘 PDF download: buff.ly/Ld7652n
This special November/December edition focuses on technology in dementia care.
📄 Web version: buff.ly/q55Unbh
📘 PDF download: buff.ly/Ld7652n
This special November/December edition focuses on technology in dementia care.
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📣Calling all UK OTs with experience in mental health.
I am Renata, an MSc OT student conducting research on motivation in adult mental health settings in the UK. I would greatly appreciate your participation!
#OccupationalTherap #motivation #mentalhealth #MH4OT #OT4OT #UKMentalHealth
I am Renata, an MSc OT student conducting research on motivation in adult mental health settings in the UK. I would greatly appreciate your participation!
#OccupationalTherap #motivation #mentalhealth #MH4OT #OT4OT #UKMentalHealth
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📣Calling all UK OTs with experience in mental health.
I am Renata, an MSc OT student conducting research on motivation in adult mental health settings in the UK. I would greatly appreciate your participation!
#OccupationalTherap #motivation #mentalhealth #MH4OT #OT4OT #UKMentalHealth
I am Renata, an MSc OT student conducting research on motivation in adult mental health settings in the UK. I would greatly appreciate your participation!
#OccupationalTherap #motivation #mentalhealth #MH4OT #OT4OT #UKMentalHealth
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If you’re thinking about swapping flights for trains next year, Interrail’s 25% off deal is actually decent. Makes planning way less painful. www.interrail.eu/en #BudgetTravel
#Wanderlust #GreenTravel
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If you’re thinking about swapping flights for trains next year, Interrail’s 25% off deal is actually decent. Makes planning way less painful. www.interrail.eu/en #BudgetTravel
#Wanderlust #GreenTravel