Interviewing Saida Bello, Chair of the BAME Employee Network at Bristol City Council

By BWV reporter Laura Hillier BWV Community Reporter Laura Hillier met with Saida Bello, a solicitor working in Legal Services at Bristol City Council. Saida chairs the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) Employee Network at the Council, and she provided us with an overview about the role of the Employee Networks in promoting inclusion, […]
Festival of ideas: Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics

By BWV reporter Monika Komar I recently had the unique opportunity to listen to the MP for Leeds and labour politician Rachel Reeves talk about women in Parliament and her new book, Women in Westminster. Through interviews with females frequenting the halls of the British Parliament and throwbacks to the times of her precursors, Rachel […]
BWV reporter, Laura Hillier review: Nicci Gerrard at the Festival of Ideas: What Dementia Teaches Us About Love

Our Community Reporter Laura Hillier attended a talk by the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard, who is also one half of the psychological thriller-writing duo Nicci French (Nicci and her husband Sean French). Her talk at Waterstones on 29th April was a part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas and focused on her recent book […]