Exciting News! Back To Books Receives a Health Belief Grant!

Image by Rikk Sharpe, made at The Resource Centre during out Pilot Project

Back To Books is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant for a two year project in the Avondale Grange Ward in Kettering. The grant has been awarded by HealthBelief, a Community Interest Company committed to raising money to address health inequalities in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. 

www.healthbeliefcic.org.uk

The Health Lottery is operated for and on behalf of 51 Community Interest Companies across England, Scotland and Wales, all holding society lottery licenses issued by the Gambling Commission. www.healthlottery.co.uk

It works closely with each Community Interest Company distributing grants. www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk 
People’s Health Trust is an independent charity addressing health inequalities across Great Britain. 

The View From Here Project Overview

Back To Books believe that fostering creative skills helps build creative communities, improves self-esteem and develops transferable skills. The project will share craft / creative writing activities and are designed to take pressure off participants enabling conversation to flow freely, ideas to be shared, prejudices challenged in a warm and friendly fashion. Difference is most frightening in the abstract, through these sessions difference will be made concrete and by doing so, will be demystified. We hope that the project will encourage the community to feel that The View From Here is more positive.

We are looking for a group of between 10 / 20 children or parents and children from the streets listed below to participate.

Margaret Rd, Cora Rd, Doris Rd, Edith Rd, Judith Rd, Dorothy Rd, Naseby Rd, Jean Rd, Stamford Rd

Lime Rd, Gorse Rd, Ivy Rd, Centre Parade, Heather Rd, Aster Rd, Almond Rd, Dahlia Rd, Weekly Glebe Rd.

Image created by Shelagh Rigby at the Resource Centre during our Pilot Project

The project has 4 strands and sessions will take place once a week for 92 weeks between September 2014 and September 2016 and are free.  • The View From Here -  poetry and printmaking sessions - outcome – small books to support health and wellbeing to be shared / read on difficult  days reminding participants that The View From Here can change and grow. •       Tat and Chat - learning a traditional craft combined with conversations exploring The View From Here. Creating an intricate web of thread and conversation. •       The Binding Thread - Using the recycled textiles to conjure positive thoughts on The View From Here.        •       Mosaics - the group will produce mosaics reflecting The View From Here inspired by the landscape / activities on The Green Patch Community Allotments.  We can promise fun, laughter, lively conversation, the chance to celebrate the Avondale Grange community, learn new skills and make new friends. We hope this project will also provde opportunities for parents and children to share creativity and space.       Project Artists will be Carole Miles and Phiona Richards who will be assisted by a number of volunteers during the course of the project.  If you would like to join a small, creative, friendly group to make a mosaic for the Green Patch, write a poem, learn a craft, have a coffee, make new friends?  Then contact :- Carole Miles,  Back To Books       0796 - 905 0891 email – Fingerprints07@hotmail.co.uk 51 Community Interest Companies raising money to address health inequalities across England, Scotland and Wales through The Health Lottery.