Laura Anne Collier
@lacollier.bsky.social
🏴🏳️🌈 Freelance digital marketing & fundraising, library campaigner, Ashgrove & Stockethill Community Councillor, Girlguiding volunteer, M.E. advocate, writing student, book nerd.
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This Sunday is 'pay what you can day' at Charleston in Lewes. So you can pop along and meet Bobby and Robert and be dazzled by their work and their world and meet their friends and lovers and the contemporary artists inspired by them. Signed books in shop ;) www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...
Charleston — Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders
Explore the lives and work of the 'Two Roberts'
www.charleston.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This Sunday is 'pay what you can day' at Charleston in Lewes. So you can pop along and meet Bobby and Robert and be dazzled by their work and their world and meet their friends and lovers and the contemporary artists inspired by them. Signed books in shop ;) www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...
I haven't been on this much, as the last few months have been a whirlwind - a new family member, a parent diagnosed with dementia, plus the usual juggle of trying to work as much as I can, live within our means and manage a chronic illness.
And then there's just the state of the world.
And then there's just the state of the world.
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I haven't been on this much, as the last few months have been a whirlwind - a new family member, a parent diagnosed with dementia, plus the usual juggle of trying to work as much as I can, live within our means and manage a chronic illness.
And then there's just the state of the world.
And then there's just the state of the world.
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The One Show - Dads Rock featured on last night's One Show
Thanks to all the Dads and families who took part, it focuses on our work with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
You can watch it here, it's about 19 mins, 30 seconds in:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Thanks to all the Dads and families who took part, it focuses on our work with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
You can watch it here, it's about 19 mins, 30 seconds in:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
June 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The One Show - Dads Rock featured on last night's One Show
Thanks to all the Dads and families who took part, it focuses on our work with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
You can watch it here, it's about 19 mins, 30 seconds in:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Thanks to all the Dads and families who took part, it focuses on our work with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
You can watch it here, it's about 19 mins, 30 seconds in:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Today my thoughts have very much been with the people in Graz. Every time news like today’s comes I’m immediately transported back to March 1996.
Once again, it hit a little close to home thinking of pupils at my sister’s school in Vienna who made us these bracelets for our wedding.
Once again, it hit a little close to home thinking of pupils at my sister’s school in Vienna who made us these bracelets for our wedding.
June 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Today my thoughts have very much been with the people in Graz. Every time news like today’s comes I’m immediately transported back to March 1996.
Once again, it hit a little close to home thinking of pupils at my sister’s school in Vienna who made us these bracelets for our wedding.
Once again, it hit a little close to home thinking of pupils at my sister’s school in Vienna who made us these bracelets for our wedding.
Paediatric first aid training with St Andrew’s ambulance done.
Now I just need to get my first aid kit restocked to be ready for Surf Camp this summer!
Now I just need to get my first aid kit restocked to be ready for Surf Camp this summer!
June 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Paediatric first aid training with St Andrew’s ambulance done.
Now I just need to get my first aid kit restocked to be ready for Surf Camp this summer!
Now I just need to get my first aid kit restocked to be ready for Surf Camp this summer!
So awesome to be back at Grampian Pride again this year after missing last year. Thank you Mother Nature for not raining on our parade even if you soaked us going back to the car 🤣
June 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So awesome to be back at Grampian Pride again this year after missing last year. Thank you Mother Nature for not raining on our parade even if you soaked us going back to the car 🤣
I had three days off booked weeks ago all so I could go see Lilo & Stitch at a cinema tomorrow and now I won’t be able to get there because they’re closing all the routes to the cinema tomorrow and all the roads with disabled parking bays. Thanks SO much Aberdeen.
May 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I had three days off booked weeks ago all so I could go see Lilo & Stitch at a cinema tomorrow and now I won’t be able to get there because they’re closing all the routes to the cinema tomorrow and all the roads with disabled parking bays. Thanks SO much Aberdeen.
Today was a successful day. A morning of naps, an afternoon trip to beach for ice cream, a work project complete, roast dinner and evening listening to Joni Mitchell live at Newport Festival on vinyl.
May 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Today was a successful day. A morning of naps, an afternoon trip to beach for ice cream, a work project complete, roast dinner and evening listening to Joni Mitchell live at Newport Festival on vinyl.
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Oh good. A pope that has gone on record as anti LGBTQ+ and covered up sexual abuse. Way to go backwards in the progress Pope Francis made…
May 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Oh good. A pope that has gone on record as anti LGBTQ+ and covered up sexual abuse. Way to go backwards in the progress Pope Francis made…
Once again, our local city neighbourhood has stickers, graffiti and leaflet with hate against Muslims, Black communities and LGBTQ+ communities. The far right are radicalising others, feeling emboldened and it is deeply concerning. I’ve signed this petition too.
I just signed Praxis' open letter calling on Minister for Communities Angela Rayner to stand up to hate and keep all our communities safe.
Right now, this Government is leaving far-right hate unchecked. Demand better. Sign the letter.
act.praxis.org.uk/sign-open-le...
Right now, this Government is leaving far-right hate unchecked. Demand better. Sign the letter.
act.praxis.org.uk/sign-open-le...
Sign our open letter to Minister for Communities Angela Rayner: Stand up to far-right hate and keep us all safe.
Dear Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, It's been over six months now since the racist riots. Since people of colour were attacked and since asylum hotels were set alight. The violence of last summe...
act.praxis.org.uk
April 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Once again, our local city neighbourhood has stickers, graffiti and leaflet with hate against Muslims, Black communities and LGBTQ+ communities. The far right are radicalising others, feeling emboldened and it is deeply concerning. I’ve signed this petition too.
I don’t need presents, but I’d love for people with M.E. to have the support they need, the understanding from PIP assessors and to not fear being in hospitals. Here’s how you can give me a birthday gift: www.justgiving.com/page/laura-a...
Laurie's birthday fundraiser for Action for M.E.
Help Laura Anne Collier raise money to support Action for M.E.
www.justgiving.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I don’t need presents, but I’d love for people with M.E. to have the support they need, the understanding from PIP assessors and to not fear being in hospitals. Here’s how you can give me a birthday gift: www.justgiving.com/page/laura-a...
Interested to know what my former neighbours at @edinburghzoo.bsky.social have to say - will they too stand with their cousins in Antartica? 🐧 #IStandWithThePenguins
If you’re new here, welcome. Our Antarctica Nudist Colony Government was formed after Seal hunters left our land around 1920. We occasionally allow scientists to study our 29 mammals, multiple seabirds, and limited flora, but have no permanent human settlement. Australia partially protects us 1/2
April 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Interested to know what my former neighbours at @edinburghzoo.bsky.social have to say - will they too stand with their cousins in Antartica? 🐧 #IStandWithThePenguins
Standing with the penguins.
April 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Standing with the penguins.
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Us finding out about the tariffs yesterday.
April 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Us finding out about the tariffs yesterday.
My husband and I received a £40 gift card for @dominiontheatre.bsky.social from friends at end of last year. After a tough weekend, we went to go use it today only to discover there’s no disabled access at all. Not even to get wheelchair into building. Utterly gutting and so disappointing.
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My husband and I received a £40 gift card for @dominiontheatre.bsky.social from friends at end of last year. After a tough weekend, we went to go use it today only to discover there’s no disabled access at all. Not even to get wheelchair into building. Utterly gutting and so disappointing.
Mentally trying to calculate how we will be able to afford to live as costs of everything continue to rise higher than pay and disability do.
It’s maddening to see the talk of DWP focusing on getting disabled back into work at the same time as there’s talk getting rid of remote & flexible working.
It’s maddening to see the talk of DWP focusing on getting disabled back into work at the same time as there’s talk getting rid of remote & flexible working.
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Mentally trying to calculate how we will be able to afford to live as costs of everything continue to rise higher than pay and disability do.
It’s maddening to see the talk of DWP focusing on getting disabled back into work at the same time as there’s talk getting rid of remote & flexible working.
It’s maddening to see the talk of DWP focusing on getting disabled back into work at the same time as there’s talk getting rid of remote & flexible working.
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Mums, Dads, Grannies, Grandads! Come along to our free First Aid. Thurs 20th March 7pm.
Taking place in Gorgie.
Sign up below:
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@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social
Taking place in Gorgie.
Sign up below:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Mums, Dads, Grannies, Grandads! Come along to our free First Aid. Thurs 20th March 7pm.
Taking place in Gorgie.
Sign up below:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social
Taking place in Gorgie.
Sign up below:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social
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We're conducting the biggest review of Facebook Challenges to date. We already have data from over 120 challenges, but now we’re casting the net wider.
📢 If your UK charity ran a FB Challenge in 2024 without Social AF, we’d love you to complete our quick survey:
👉 forms.gle/imB1oid8Xm39...
📢 If your UK charity ran a FB Challenge in 2024 without Social AF, we’d love you to complete our quick survey:
👉 forms.gle/imB1oid8Xm39...
Facebook Challenges 2024: The Big Review
Thank you for taking the time to complete Social AF's Facebook Challenges survey.
Having worked with so many amazing household name charities, we have stacks of data, which gives us a unique insight i...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We're conducting the biggest review of Facebook Challenges to date. We already have data from over 120 challenges, but now we’re casting the net wider.
📢 If your UK charity ran a FB Challenge in 2024 without Social AF, we’d love you to complete our quick survey:
👉 forms.gle/imB1oid8Xm39...
📢 If your UK charity ran a FB Challenge in 2024 without Social AF, we’d love you to complete our quick survey:
👉 forms.gle/imB1oid8Xm39...
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TWO DAYS left to respond to the UK Govt consultation on Copyright and AI. The AOI has created a brilliant guide to help with this - the consultation is onerous but their tips make completing it quick and easy for any creator, not just an illustrator. PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICE: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...
The Copyright and AI consultation - how to respond as an illustrator – The AOI
The Copyright and Artificial Intelligence consultation was published by in December 2024, and we are encouraging illustrators to submit a response to the consultation to demonstrate the negative affec...
theaoi.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
TWO DAYS left to respond to the UK Govt consultation on Copyright and AI. The AOI has created a brilliant guide to help with this - the consultation is onerous but their tips make completing it quick and easy for any creator, not just an illustrator. PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICE: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...
Got to catch up with friends from UCLA Writers Studio workshop on Friday. We all took a four day intensive class back in 2022 and have met regularly to critique each others work ever since. We all had a break from writing at end of last year as life was heavy. It’s so fab to get back in again.
February 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Got to catch up with friends from UCLA Writers Studio workshop on Friday. We all took a four day intensive class back in 2022 and have met regularly to critique each others work ever since. We all had a break from writing at end of last year as life was heavy. It’s so fab to get back in again.
Most amused to realise my friend wrote “Buy x chocolate” on the magnetic whiteboard cloud that we use for our to-do list when she was over for Valentine’s Day. It’s only taken me five days to notice 😂
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Most amused to realise my friend wrote “Buy x chocolate” on the magnetic whiteboard cloud that we use for our to-do list when she was over for Valentine’s Day. It’s only taken me five days to notice 😂
Today in the life of someone with M.E. - husband helped me get to optician so I could get my eyes tested & order new glasses. This took two hours as apparently I have the face size of “not quite an adult”. 😂
I then needed to be put to bed and had a three hour nap to recover.
I then needed to be put to bed and had a three hour nap to recover.
February 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today in the life of someone with M.E. - husband helped me get to optician so I could get my eyes tested & order new glasses. This took two hours as apparently I have the face size of “not quite an adult”. 😂
I then needed to be put to bed and had a three hour nap to recover.
I then needed to be put to bed and had a three hour nap to recover.
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The Father-inclusion Hub website was lunched just this month! A growing, co-created archive of ‘what works’ in embedding father-inclusion! Visit the site to access resources developed by leading organisations and get in touch if you have examples to share!
fatherinclusion.org
fatherinclusion.org
National providers of research, evaluation, consultancy and training, plus unique access to our resource hub; a growing, co-created archive of 'what works' in being father-inclusive.
fatherinclusion.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Father-inclusion Hub website was lunched just this month! A growing, co-created archive of ‘what works’ in embedding father-inclusion! Visit the site to access resources developed by leading organisations and get in touch if you have examples to share!
fatherinclusion.org
fatherinclusion.org
Working with CILIPS & Colin McGeoch (a fellow @foscotlibs.bsky.social member from Glasgow) as we try to work out just how many libraries in Scotland are under threat in the next council budgets next month.
The cuts to services over last 5 yrs are mind blowing. 🤯
And Scot Gov doesn’t track this.
The cuts to services over last 5 yrs are mind blowing. 🤯
And Scot Gov doesn’t track this.
February 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Working with CILIPS & Colin McGeoch (a fellow @foscotlibs.bsky.social member from Glasgow) as we try to work out just how many libraries in Scotland are under threat in the next council budgets next month.
The cuts to services over last 5 yrs are mind blowing. 🤯
And Scot Gov doesn’t track this.
The cuts to services over last 5 yrs are mind blowing. 🤯
And Scot Gov doesn’t track this.