Community Craft Workshops

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Funded on
16 Mar 2021

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.

£4,510 Raised of £4,501

2 Backers

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Our Delivery Report

Funded on 16 March 2021 | Delivered on 28 March 2022

£4,510

RAISED

2

BACKERS

33

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£4,500

From Mayor of London

21

people have visited this project!

28 March 2022

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Every Tuesday morning this all female Threads team share their sewing and crafting skills with other local women. They drink tea, laugh, chat and produce some wonderful things!

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More about our impact

The environment

We used recycled materials where possible and tried to reduce waste.

Arts, culture & heritage

Our workshops offered the variety of arts and craft skills as anticipated. This opened up the conversation around culture and heritage. One week participants talked about their journeys to the UK and many different stories were shared about cultural expectations surrounding social activities. Similarities of behaviour and experience were acknowledged, regardless of cultural background. The diversity of the Threads workshop leaders helped foster a sense of acceptance, recognition of commonality and community cohesion.

Activity, health and leisure

The workshops managed to find the balance of being action packed whilst providing calm and relaxation to participants. One participant commented specifically that she had struggled with her mental health, had been encouraged to come by a friend and the workshops had helped her find hope when she felt hopeless. One week explicitly provided mindful crafting and all weeks gave participants the opportunity to relax whilst learning a new skill and discovering their own creativity.

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Threads 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.