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Together TV to distribute 500,000 sunflower seeds to boost well-being and connect communities again.

We were very excited to hear that Alexandra Genova’s Our Land commissioned by Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund has been nominated for the BAFTA Television 2022 Short Form Programme. The ceremony will be hosted Sunday, 8th May.

Monty Don leads us down the world's garden paths in five gardening programmes to share the history, happiness, and joy that gardens bring to people no matter the place or time. Monty Don’s Italian, French, American, Japanese, and Paradise gardens showcase gardens from around the world and can provide you a little inspiration on how to bring the world’s gardens to your own. 

• Judging panel will consist of senior experts from broadcast, production, editorial and charity
• £100k fund will commission five emerging filmmakers to create 20-minute documentaries telling the pivotal unknown stories from the LGBTQ+ community in the UK
• This year's theme is LGBTQ+: Queer Lives Today
• The Diverse Film Fund will provide one-on-one mentoring with senior industry professionals and exclusive webinars with media giants
• Together TV's Diverse Film Fund 2022 applications close on Thursday 31 March 2022 at 12 pm (BST)
• The chosen filmmakers' documentaries will premiere on Together TV in November 2022

BFI Flare co-hosted a webinar with us to discuss Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund, representing diversity in film and TV, and a Q&A for applying for the fund.

Celebrate LGBTQ+ history with programmes like Gamechangers: Transmilitary and The Beyonce Experience. For the largest part of history people in the LGBTQ+ community have not been able to express themselves and have their voices heard, which is why having a platform to share their stories is so important. 

We spend a lot of time in our homes, and it should be a place where you can relax, decompress, and practise self-care. Self-care is hard to practise in a space that doesn’t reflect the happiness you are trying to accomplish.

Through sprucing up your home and doing things that will make you happy, you will be able to set and achieve attainable self-care goals. 

As they say, there's no better time than the present to  kickstart a new habit. And self-care is often left at the bottom of our priotry lists. However, whatever stage of your life you're in, it's always important to care for your health and well-being.

A simple way to start your self-care routine is to look at it in terms of pillars. This might sound like a lot, but once  you know them, you can better recognise what needs work in your life instead of trying to do everything.

LGBT+ History Month is every February and was started to give visibility to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people, their history, lives and their experiences through curriculum and the wider community. The LGBT+ History Month charity works hard to get this history into the educational system, and a dedicated month aids the campaign.

Holocaust Memorial Day occurs annually on 27th January. It is a day for everyone to remember the millions of people who were murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi rule and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

The day is observed in many ways and is important for reminding people of the devastating effects racism, hatred and discrimination has had. It is a chance for people to teach, learn and grow to protect our societies and people.