The idea
Get Crafty with Words aims to improve literacy skills for children and adults living in Oswestry and the surrounding area.
For children, storytime shouldn’t be just at bedtime and for adults, there's more to life than reading a utility bill. Strong literacy and reading skills positively impact many aspects of life, including communication, employability and mental wellbeing. By combining arts and crafts with reading, the project will encourage individuals of all ages to join a group focused on using creative skills to improve literacy and reading abilities.
This will be achieved by offering a relaxed environment that encourages learning through creativity. Members of the group will learn, and build confidence to improve their reading and writing skills by engaging with others through creating their own short story with illustrations.
What we'll deliver
- Improved literacy skills for 100 people
- Improved reading skills for 100 people
- Achieve an improvement in wellbeing as a direct result of participating in the group
Why it's a great idea
The Get Crafty with Words project will deliver the following benefits -
-Improved mental wellbeing for all attendees as a result of engaging with others;
-Increased social skills, confidence and willingness to be an active part of their community;
-Improved literacy and reading skills;
-Build multi-generational friendships that are unlikely to have occurred without the initiative; and
-Improved employment opportunities due to stronger literacy and reading skills.
Steps to get it done
- Recruit Project Lead
- Recruit volunteers
- Agree Get Crafty with Words workshop dates
- Marketing and promotion for programme of workshops and sign up members
- Order arts and craft materials
- Check books already available and arrange a shout out if more are needed
- Members to complete baseline survey
- Run programme of workshops
- Arrange and promote exhibitions
- Members to complete follow up survey
