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25/02/2022

CALLING ALL CAREWORKERS!!

We'd like YOU to help test our new online learning platform -Neurocare Knowhow. We need you to view the short films and podcasts, complete an online questionnaire and give us your honest feedback. Shopping vouchers will be given to all testers!

Neurocare Knowhow has been developed in collaboration with care workers and people with neurological conditions. It takes a symptom led approach to learning about neurological conditions, and includes learning around diverse conditions, such as Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy and multiple system atrophy.

The Neurocare KnowHow team are the University of Sheffield, NIHR Devices for Dignity, Ammba Digital and Optical Jukebox

Watch the film to find out more and email us at [email protected]

Neurocare KnowHow is a new online learning platform for care workers who support people with neurological conditions The Neurocare KnowHow team, including th...

29/06/2021

I'm very proud to have been director of photography on a recent live-streamed performance of 'Outlier' at Bristol Old Vic. Translating theatre into cinema is a challenge and one that is new to BOV and to us too but everyone put their creative minds together and the results were fantastic! They also received a well deserved four-star review in the Guardian.

Malaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol – but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn

03/03/2020

You can now find both our information resources for people living with MND/ALS - the brand new myBreathing and myTube - via one web address. Featuring short films of people's real life experiences of using feeding tubes and non-invasive ventilation, supporting people to make choices that are right for them.

https://mymnd.org.uk/

28/02/2020

Today we launch the myBreathing website - supporting people living with MND/ALS to make choices around options for breathing support, such as non-invasive ventilation. It features short films with real life stories, as well as expert clinical advice.

Created in collaboration with Sheffield MND Care Centre, Manchester MND Care Centre, North West Ventilation Unit and the MND Association. Funded and supported by the South Yorkshire and Manchester and District branches of the MND Association.

15/01/2018

Proud to see our portraits of the stars of our documentary ‘Yemeni Dreams, Sheffield Steel’ on display in Kelham Island Museum, as part of the ‘1916: steel, steam and power’ showcase. Exciting planning underway for a 12 min version of the film to become part of the permanent exhibition, showing the diverse communities that built the Steel City!

03/11/2017

We were thrilled to have our doc film 'Sheffield Steel, Yemeni Dreams' shown at Kelham Island Museum last night, as part of their '1916: Steel, Steam, Power' project showcase. In discussions about an abbreviated version of the film become part of the permanent exhibition! Watch this space....

20/09/2017

A double-whammy news article for myTube and Jason and Liz Liversidge who took part! It covers our team's wins at the BMA Patient Information Awards on Monday night, and also how Jason has recently raised abut £8k through his abseil off the Humber Bridge. What a hero!

Jason earns recognition at BMA patient information awards

19/09/2017

Hurray! We won! A big team of us put a lot of hard work and love into making the myTube website, and now we've won 2 awards and runner up in another at the BMA's Patient Information Awards! A group of patients, carers, clinicians, researchers, digital wizards and us filmmakers collaborated to make this resource for peopel with MND considering having a feeding tube.

08/09/2017

The amazing Jason Liversidge and his wife Elizabeth Liversidge (of our myTube website team) are at it again! Jason is terminally ill and paralysed due to MND. That won't stop him though! He's just climbed Snowdon in an electric wheelchair, and now this Sunday they'll abseil off the Humber Bridge! Please sponsor him - this man is fundraising legend, and his legacy to the world is awe inspiring!

A terminally ill man is to complete his next daring challenge by abseiling down the Humber Bridge.

07/09/2017

Wonderful news to learn our myTube patient education website has won CN Magazine's 2017 Resource of the Year Award! This is down to the amazing team of patients, carers, clinicians, researchers, the MND Association, and the digital makers we worked with over a good few months collaborating on this last summer and autumn.

https://www.nutrition2me.com/cn-awards/cn-awards-the-winners

19/06/2017

Tomorrow eve! Tues 20th June! A double doc film dose to follow Doc/Fest last week - Banyamulenge (João Paulo Simões) with Q&A and I Call You Yemen - both exploring the effects of conflict and massacres. Members of theBanyamulenge community living in the UK will be at this screening, and the makers of both films will be in attendance. 7pm, free (donations) at Cafe #9, Nether Edge, Sheffield.
www.nowthenmagazine.com/sheffield/issue-111/filmreel/

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