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Community Craft Workshops joined: Southwark Hive 2 years ago
By Threads
We want to provide a space for the community to come together. Our nurturing environment offers a space of connection to rediscover what we have in common whilst crafting, making and creating.
Threads is a grass roots community organisation and we love to bring people together! We offer free crafting workshops in community venues, where individuals connect, spend time together and learn new crafting skills. In a fast world, crafting and making helps us to slow down benefiting our emotional and mental wellbeing. Threads will deliver 18 workshops, aiming to support community building. Each 2 hour workshop offers card making or fabric painting and includes a welcoming activity, allowing for plenty of experiential learning and support for learners at all different stages. We will be building on successful workshops previously delivered on the Aylesbury Estate, SE17, continuing to develop our relationship with residents, wider community and Creation Trust. Threads workshops are more than a place to learn, we warmly welcome and care for every individual, nurturing a collective feeling of wellbeing, a true sense of achievement and the rediscovery of the power of community.
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Why it's a great idea:
Threads workshops will support individuals to engage in the act of crafting and creating which is scientifically proven to have a positive impact on mental health and wellbeing. Individuals will benefit from the opportunity to interact and share with others within the warm, nurturing and caring environment of the workshop setting. The Threads team will prepare carefully considered resources and refreshments for each workshop imbuing a personal touch and a sense of value on each participant. All are welcome to Threads workshops, including but not exclusively those who face barriers, whether poverty, isolation, mental or physical illness or prejudice. Attendees will benefit from Threads’ non-judgemental ethos, reducing stigma, promoting social cohesion and the opportunity to reconnect with their community. Threads takes an ethical approach to workshop delivery, adopting the practice of recycling, reusing and sharing in everyday life. We care about our planet.
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VolunteerThreads is a small grass roots community group. We run a variety of inclusive craft workshops for all, irrespective of financial, physical or mental barriers. The core team is connected through existing relationships. Our aim is that Threads becomes a place for the wider community – where individuals can come together and benefit from spending time with others whilst learning a new skill. It is important to us to always create a safe, warm, welcoming environment to nurture individuals and the wider community, one conversation at a time.
We make decisions together as a team and believe in co-operative values, operating within a non-hierarchical structure. We are in the process of setting ourselves up with a formal legal structure, but we remain an informal group for now. Threads is an ethical and values based organisation offering the opportunity for decent and fair work for its freelance workshop leaders and outreach workers.
Threads consciously sources the materials we use. We are committed to sustainability and minimising waste. The health of our planet is important to us. At Threads, we always make decisions as a team and work collaboratively.
We have a track record of delivering workshops. We have previously been funded by the Mayor of London Culture Seeds to run indigo dyeing workshops on the Aylesbury Estate, SE17. Due to the pandemic, half of the workshops were delivered online and were well attended, receiving extremely positive feedback, providing participants some relief during difficult times. We aim for all of our workshops to lift the spirits.
Project Owner: Threads The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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