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• Cancer Connections Glitz & Glam Ball

  Sat 03 Dec 2022

  On Saturday 26th November we had the honour of attending Cancer Connections Ball. We then had the privilege to be asked to sing at the event. The members who took part done amazing, all at Arts 4 Wellbeing are very proud.

  

• Christmas is a time for giving even if its a smile

  Sat 26 Nov 2022

  Huge HUGE thank you to Andrew Wilkinson who kindly gifted selection boxes to each individual member. Such a lovely gesture, we are so grateful.

  

• The Little Haven Christmas Menu

  Sat 26 Nov 2022

  Look who popped into Arts 4 Wellbeing, Jan, Michael and Natalie from the Little Haven Hotel. 

   

  A couple of weeks ago, we came up with the idea that our members would design the background of the Christmas menu. All three staff would get the deciding choice on which background they would have.

   

  Our members started creating their entries. The staff from The Little Haven then came to our Studio to pick the winner. Even though, all are winners - one winner will be revealed when we attend the Little Haven for our Christmas Event.

   

  Well done to everyone took part!

   

   

  

• It’s all in the fingers green fingers

  Thu 01 Sep 2022

  What a great morning our guys had a Green Fingers Garden Centre, our members met the Manager Michelle and all the fantastic staff who were so accommodating to all our lovely members.

  We were given a lesson on mixing soil and compost, repotting of plants and how to care for them.

  we also visited the wonderful cafe where we had refreshments followed by a tour around the whole building including the amazing fruit and veg shop which smells devine.

  

• Giving back to our community

  Thu 01 Sep 2022

  Our new partnership journey began with our first Chit and Chatter session with some beautiful people we now call friends. Meeting residents from Garden Hill Care Home was a powerful reminder of what it means to truly connect with people, how enriching and fulfilling communication can be. 

  

• Strangers Kindness

  Mon 06 Jun 2022

  A random act of kindness can change people’s lives, about 10 days ago I met a beautiful lady called Caroline who wanted to donate her late Mam’s art materials to our centre, long story short there was so much art materials Caroline’s husband Jonathan popped along with Caroline to help deliver the materials, I showed Caroline around our building, and they were both inspired, Jonathan’s company Royal IHC decided to donate 6 computers to our learning suite. 
  Our new computers were all set up this week by Jonathan and a member of his team, our members can now basic computers and learn how to stay safe on the net. 
  You can see by the photographs our suite is now complete. 
   

  A random act of kindness from strangers who are now our friends. 

  

• Kind donation

  Sun 05 Jun 2022

  Thank you to the Asda Foundation for their kind donation towards our Platinum Jubilee Party, Mavis their Asda Community Champion kindly donated the cheque. 

  

• Beaming with pride

  Sun 05 Jun 2022

  Two of our Platinum Jubilee Paintings are being exhibited in our Town Hall.

   

  Our members and staff are beaming with pride that their creations are pride of place at the entrance of the stairwell to our Town Hall 

  

• Kind donation from Wickes

  Sun 05 Jun 2022

  Wickes Community Project kindly donated products which will make a massive difference to us, toilets which will help with our refurbishment of the ladies bathroom and paint products for our redecoration of our hallway. 
  Our Chairman went along with our Manager to receive the products. 
  We would like to thank Wickes for the warm welcome, great customer service and the kind donation. 

  

• Preparing for our celebrations

  Thu 05 May 2022

  It’s all systems go for our Queens Platinum Jubilee here at Arts 4 Wellbeing. We’ve been looking at how other artists have created portraits of the Queen and painted our own tributes using their work as inspiration. We hope they’ll be hanging somewhere in South Shields soon.