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Creating Community |
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The
Art Ministry joined the national Warm Welcome Spaces initiative
thanks to funding from the Government's Community Organisations Cost of
Living Fund, delivered by the National Lottery Community Fund. Warm
Welcome Spaces opened their doors to local communities across the country,
offering everyone a free, warm, welcoming and friendly space. The Art
Ministry's Warm Welcome Space, was a great place to connect with your
community, to make new friends, while spending a couple of hours doing art
and craft activities get creative and keeping warm. Our
fundraising meal at the Shagor Tandoori
Restaurant on 26th October was attended by 40 people and raised
£300. We
provided free art and craft activities at the Lions Mid Summer Sports Day and
Fun Festival for Disabled People on 29th July. You can see photos on our Facebook page - Lions
Mid Summer Photos We
held a Seaside Summer Crafts afternoon at our base in Hadleigh
on Thursday 20th July. We were indoors and outdoor, the weather was good to us and the event was
well attended by the local community and our service users. There were free
activities and others costing just 50p or £1 and refreshments including drink
and a cake for just £1! We always strive to make our events accessible to
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We
had a fundraising meal at the Maharaja Indian restaurant in Benfleet on 25th
May and raised £450. Thank you to all who came and who donated raffle prizes. We
have received a Magic Little Grant of £500 from the People’s Postcode Lottery
towards art and craft materials for our weekly session for young people with
special needs. Thanks to funding from
the Comic Relief Community Fund and Essex County Council we were able to open
up to the whole community for free our Monday morning, 11 to 1, and Thursday
afternoon, 2 to 4, creative sessions from January to March. Thanks to additional
funding from the Co-op Warm Spaces initiative we were able to keep these
sessions free until the end of April. Our Cosy Crafts session is featured on the BBC East website - BBC East The Art
Ministry You
can see our schedule in our calendar We managed to provide services
throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. At first we delivered bags of craft items to
our regular attendees, then started to run sessions via Zoom and made some
instructional videos – see here Financially we managed to keep going
thanks support from the National Lottery Community Fund, Southend
Community Investment Fund, Southend Emergency Fund,
Comic Relief Community Fund and many others. If you would like
regular updates from The Art Ministry by email please click here "Keep in
touch" |
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The Art
Ministry, 1 Church Road, Hadleigh, Essex, SS7 2DQ, Registered Charity Number:
1108227 |
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