Category: Values

  • Leaving Twitter

    Leaving Twitter

    Afallen was set up in 2018 to keep money and skills in Wales, and to help organisations understand, and implement, Future Generations ways of working.

    We’re a small business, and in common with most other organisations in Wales, we adopted a range of social media platforms to help communicate with our audience.

    Twitter (X) was one of those platforms. Over the years we have built our following into a modest 922 followers. However we have recently been shifting our focus to other platforms that include Mastodon, Pixelfed and LinkedIn. Twitter (X) has been getting progressively worse, a process turbo-charged by Elon Musk who has enabled, empowered and enriched those who seek to divide and misinform. 

    We believe that our use of the platform has become an implicit endorsement of an emboldened far right in the public discourse, and is now incompatible with the Afallen values, and with the Future Generation Goals in Wales. We have therefore decided to stop using our account, effective immediately.

    Screenshot of the Afallen Twitter profile, showing text saying 'inactive account, find us at toot.wales or LinkedIn, and with the numbers of following and followers (684 and 922)
    The Afallen twitter profile when we stopped using it.

    One of our Afallen values is “empowering open digital solutions” which is why we are very happy to have a presence on the open source social media platforms of Mastodon and Pixelfed. If you would like to connect with us on our other platforms of communication, please head to:

  • Making a living

    Making a living

    It shouldn’t be strange, unusual or controversial to want to pay people a decent wage. And yet discussions about salary and the value that people bring to a company can sometimes seem taboo.

    Afallen is a values-based organisation. We value diversity. We value the ecosystem which supports the myriad of things that take place within it. And we value highly the people that we work with.

    That’s why we’ve decided to sign up to the Living Wage scheme. This signifies our intent to stand with the people that we contract to work with us; that we will remunerate them with at least the Living Wage; and that we stand for social responsibility. We’re in good company – there are 119 other Wales-based organisations which have signed up to the scheme.

    The research demonstrates that businesses signing up to the scheme reap the benefits. Part of this is undoubtedly through reputation – something that is very important to a fledgling business like our own. But some of the benefits accrue through stronger relationships with staff or the wider supply chain.

    In common with many other employers, our primary motivation for signing up is alignment with our values, our commitment to social responsibility and an enhanced reputation.

    If our values align with yours, get in touch – we love to work with like-minded organisations to solve challenging problems which add value and meaning to the people and communities of Wales and beyond.

    You can view all our accreditations in the footer of the website.