Thank You For Helping Us Grow Some £10s!

Back To Books is a Not For Profit Community Organisation specialising in arts and wellbeing projects. We raise funds on a project by project basis and have completed many successful creative projects in Northamptonshire. We have been awarded grants for past projects by Awards For All, Northamptonshire Community Foundation and The People's Health Trust. We work with all ages and abilities and hope to build on our creative approaches to walking and wellbeing. We created a public Mosaic Trail for the Brampton Valley Way, artworks and mosaics for The Green Patch Community Allotments and have worked with many groups in rural or deprived areas. We have been delighted by the support we received from friends and well wishers during the Grow Your Tenner campaign in October 2016. We managed to raise £1000 which will be used as matched funding for a new project in 2017! Kettfest at The Green Patch Celebrating Our Senses - Lyvden New Beild Mosaics along the Brampton Valley way Felting The Landscape

Making Connections

Carole was contacted by by a member of Kettering Civic Society for some mosaic advice which resulted in a long and lively meeting at Kettering Station and the Green Patch. The Civic Society now have a project room on Platform 1 at the station, they are also trying to raise funds to reinstate a 1960s mosaic panel by artist Kenneth Budd.

Some history

Proposed location

Events and ways you can help

Fund raising dinner menu

Ways to donate

Key to the mosaic

During her conversation with Monica, it transpired 

that Monica's father, Allan Page, had had a wool shop 

in the Grange Place shopping precinct in the 1956's. 

Allan was also concerned that there was nowhere for the young people to hang out so he also opened a tea room with a milk machine, the height of 50's chic! The Wool Shop was directly opposite what is now the Grange Place Resource Centre. 

The pink swing dress in the 

window could almost 

be part of the Fashion exhibition currently 

on at Kettering Museum!

The log tables are really inventive and 

could almost be from The Green Patch of today.

Seeing these photographs seems almost like time travelling 

- the brick planters looks very smart and is no longer there today.