And 2025 is coming!!!!
We are hoping to open the year with a completely new cycle of sessions of heritage for mental wellbeing, so keep an eye on our website or get in touch by email: January will be the month and Zoom will be our ticket for conversation about all things heritage!!!
In 2024
After a long research about the WW2 and who the Black Troops were, we are pleased to say that we have launched a dedicated website in July 2024!
We were lucky to have the stories of many people that remembers and will not forget.
In total, we have almost 800 people going around, asking questions, telling us about their memories, and contributing with their support.
Well done Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and County Durham, we hope to continue to see many memories as time goes by!
Don't miss it!!!!
It was great to continue our workshops for mental wellbeing through heritage.
Again, we had many people joining us from Newcastle, Gateshead and County Durham.
We hope to see you all again next year, with more heritage, more wellbeing and much, much more!
In 2023
We want to support our BAME group that are working outdoors, with gardens and allotments! If you are growing vegetables, fruit or sowing seeds in Count Durham, get in touch we have wonderful offers for you!
Don't miss our workshops 'Heritage for Mental Wellbeing!' 6 sessions, 1 hour, 10 people! On Zoom!
In November we started a project to support ethnic minorities in County Durham due to the horrendous impact from the Coronavirus. The project started in January, in February we have sent free packages of materials for painting and sculpture and started Zoom sessions to create a sense of support and welbeing, which will run until April!
In October, up until December, we have launched a survey in Durham to ascertain who could not access the internet, and for those getting online, what did they want. Results will come out in February 2021. 5.000 surveys were distributed door to door.
In September we have launched a green wave to support carers:
Gardening is known to alleviate depression and stress, it is a wonderful topic of conversation and helps people to maintain mental health issues at bay.
Here, at Culture Healing Communities, we wanted to encourage our unpaid carers in Durham to start doing a bit of gardening and enjoy Nature, so, to help them to start planning ahead next year, we offered outstanding sets of gardening tools with a mixture of flower seeds to encourage Durham carers to start a wonderful and colourful garden.
But that is not all: to help them further, inside the box there was a surprise.
There were only 8 kits to offer, first come, first served basis, with the amazing support from Alpkit Foundation and Poundland Charity Trust, and the offer is for those living in a DH post code. Later, we got more tools and seeds and delivered to a further 11 carers.
It was a success and we are quite happy to know that we have provided a bit of chill-out!
And happy gardening!
In April we have launched a challenge, where 100 people in Durham would knit and crochet rainbow squares that would be stitched together to make a blanket.
We would then create an auction to sell the blanket and give all the money to the NHS.
We did not get a blanket.
We got SEVEN!
We have celebrated the Durham Community Spirit, the unification of people facing a pandemic and the indomitable will to support the NHS who has sacrificed dozens of its workers to take care of all of us.
Durham communities act together and support together.
Thank you.