Author: Joe

Over the last few days I’ve complately rebuilt www.whitewaterwriters.com. It was a very generic site advertising an academic project to strangers and now it’s for our writers to see the results of their work. It took quite the mental shift to go from ‘we are running educational interventions’ to ‘we are a publisher that runs […]

We’re looking for trustees! eQuality Time would like to add two to four new trustees over the next few months, both to replace trustees that have moved on and as part of a general desire to continually bring fresh views in. We are looking for individuals who can offer the following: A commitment to the […]

At their meeting on 1st April,  eQuality Time’s trustees decided to put the COO (the only current member of staff) into furlough from the 6th April. The decision process and reasoning are covered in this briefing document that was written ahead of the meeting: eQuality Time Coronovirus Response. Until 6th of April, the COO will […]

For the next few months eQuality Time is going to be focusing it’s efforts on a complete rewrite of the code for the Open Voice Factory, as well as experimenting with creating virtual White Water Writer camps. There’s a lot of reasons for the rewrite: The old github repo is extremely large because it contains […]

Today I’m looking into the proper costs of a White Water Writers camp.  I periodically do back-of-the-envelope calculations for quoting invidual camps but it was about time that I got some proper numbers involved. I’m doing it publically for all the normal reasons and one extra one: it might help some organisations tailor their requests […]

We’ve completed out 2030 Strategic Plan! You can read it here. Edit: this was written before COVID. It should be considered ‘asperational’.

Joe presented at Communication Matters this year and we’ve just realised we didn’t make the slides available (well, they are on the web, we didn’t link to them). Our bad: Our abstract is: Last year Comic Relief gave us £45,000 to make copyright-free resources for AAC.  We made what we thought would work, interviewed some […]

We’re looking for artists. At MCM in October I saw various artists selling custom sketches for £20-£35 and thought “£50 worth of that sort of art would be good enough for us to use as a cover for White Water Writers books”.   So I contacted a bunch and we’ve had some awesome covers come […]

In February we developed and applied for funding for a new project about improving recycling. You can see the developement at application here. I’ve now got around to blogging about it. This is rubbish increases recycling in a local area by working face-to-face with residents to give them the information, feedback, and, dare I say, […]

Caesar Bond is our first prison project. We have a collaborative writing project that we do in schools and universities.In involves groups designing a narrative together, and then each taking charge of different character’s actions as they work out the detailed steps of the plot. The writers keep control of their character right through until […]