INSP to launch new report looking at impact of journalism training academy

The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) is set to launch a new report which celebrates the impact of its Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy, which provided skills training and writing workshops for people with direct experience of homelessness and poverty over 2025.

Partners and supporters of INSP are invited to join them at a special event at the Social Hub in Glasgow on Thursday 17 February from 6pm onwards.

With thanks to the backing of five funders (Albert Hunt Trust, Endrick Trust, National Lottery Awards For All, People’s Postcode Trust and the Robertson Trust) INSP worked with two groups of people providing them with training workshops and giving them the opportunity to complete written assignments. The results were that all participants published articles to the INSP’s global news service, a newspaper was created (The New Narrative), participants received a Certificate of Atendance & Achievement, and it has led to new educational pathways for some participants.

The event will be a relaxed opportunity to meet with INSP, our partners and supporters. You will hear directly from our media trainers in the project – Mike Findlay-Agnew, CEO of INSP and Mairi Damer of Word Up Communications – as well as participants who took part in the training.

INSP board members from both Norway and Sweden will also be in Glasgow for this event and will talk about the wider global street paper movement and efforts to tackle homelessness and poverty.

The event is a chance to discuss the wider theme of ‘Changing the Narrative on Homelessness and Poverty’, calling for collective action from across the homelessness sector to shift media and public narrative that accurately reflects the lived realities of people experiencing the issues directly.

Global Street Paper Summit in Glasgow 2026

INSP is excited to announce that we will host the Global Street Paper Summit at the end of August this year in our hometown of Glasgow. Glasgow Caledonian University will host our flagship event which brings street paper staff and entrepreneurs from across the globe to Scotland’s biggest city. The event on 17 February will also include some details of plans for this.

If you are interested in attending, lease register through the events page below. The event will take place in The Snug, on the group floor of the Social Hub at 15 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1TQ.