Heart Felt

Carole worked with people at 

Grange Place and The Green Patch

where pairs of felt hearts were chosen

and a design applied by needle felting.

 Lots of care was taken not to stab fingers in the process!

The pairs of hearts were then sewn together, a small

gap was left open to add stuffing then sewn up.

 If you would like to show someone a little love

Grow Wild have a downloadable card to colour here

Hearts and wild flowers, what could be nicer!

If you live in the Avondale / Grange ward do join us again

for our next Threads and Chatter session 

Tuesday 23rd of February

The Resource Centre, 

9 Grange Place, Kettering. 

NN16 0NT

Phiona Richards will be running her inventive, creative 

session between 3.30 and 5.00pm

Sessions and refreshments are family friendly, fun and free!

Time to Celebrate!

Sue, and Vicky invited us to 

The Green Patch Volunteers Christmas lunch

where the most amazing feast was laid out for

all to enjoy!

Later we made paper plate Christmas Wreaths

enjoyed more fabulous food

Santa Nigel arrived to give out our lovely gifts

twice in one week!

What's in the bag?

Time to feast and be jolly!

Sue and the volunteers had made the polytunnel

a grotto fit for santas elves!

who were busy more wreaths

and Flush Me Not angels

there was a bit of pizza making

with healthy toppings

and just a bit of cheese!

Whilst waiting Sue had organised

fun and games.

Here are more presents - these we made for Vicky's group.

Jamie tucks into his hand made pizza.

Look - some very cute reindeer!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas

So far The View from Here has been

fabulous, we've met and made , sewn and grown,

felt part of our local and wider communities.

We can't wait to see you again in the New Year!

It's In The Bag!

With Christmas fast approaching the group 

have been busy making Advent Calendars

and using fabric stamps

to embellish gift bags for the group and other 

members of  The Green Patch community.

We chose words that represented the fun 

and joy of the winter season. 

Our plan is to sew all the fronts 

to lovely patterned fabrics 

and fill them with a selection 

of small gifts and treats. 

30 fronts down and 50 more to go !

Here are Jamie and Jacob

With their felt panels now mounted on 

a felt mat to hang on their walls at home.

Nice work team!

World Book Night

We are always looking for ways to add elements to our projects and our Project Coordinator Carole Miles applied to become an World Book Night 2015 institutional volunteer and we gave out books in our project postcode area in the Avondale Grange Ward as part of our The View From Here project. We also gave books in other parts on other days to members of Back To Books.

We gave out

Assassin's Apprentice

Book Title: Spring Tide

All the books were wrapped in our specially created book 

wraps printed as part of our View From Here project 

and the books given out in out postcode area also 

contained a leaflet about the project. 

We had a fabulous week of book giving as you can 

see from all the smiling faces in our Flickr set here!

Rob Walker gave out books at KBA

and we gave out books at The Green Patch

and at the Resource Centre in Grange Square.

World Book Night is an annual celebration of reading and books that took place on 23 April. It sees passionate volunteers give out hundreds of thousands of books in their communities to share their love of reading with people who don’t read regularly or own books. World Book Night is run by The Reading Agency, a national charity that inspires people to become confident and enthusiastic readers to help give them an equal chance in life.

A Gift and a Garden

On a grey, rainy morning at The green Patch, 

Carole received a message from a friend 

who works in a local Garden Centre

"We have some plants that are past their best,

 do you think that The Green Patch 

might be able to use them?"

Carole and Nigel went to investigate 

and returned with a wonderful collection of 

past their best (for this season) plants, herbs, 

strawberry plants and bird feeders.

Such kindness totally banished the grey 

clouds and Carole and Nigel completely 

forgot that they were damp from head to toe! 

As a thank you for the contact 

lovely Green Patch volunteers planted some 

tubs and containers to make a little garden 

by The Mollie. Many of the plants have been 

planted in the Bee Garden, whilst others are in 

new borders around the site.

Sharing, creating and growing together helps build communities, supports wellbeing, makes opportunities to create new friendships and a brighter future for us all. The Green Patch and the Avondale Grange Ward are special places and we feel so lucky to be working and connecting with the community during our View From Here project.