Community Craft Skills Project

Creativity is at the heart of this project. Creativity mixed with imagination to be precise and sky is the limit. Skills such as Dressmaking, Embroidery, Knitting, and Crochet or any skill that you enjoy. Our expert tutors are at hand and the environment is friendly and welcoming. We are all inclusive. This Project will help service users to build personal development, come out of isolation, meet others in similar situation and socialise. This continuing process will help enhance social cohesion. The improved confidence and high self-esteem will make service users feel less isolated and depressed through participating in cultural and age-sensitive activities with tutor and peer support. Thus, helping to bring people together and build strong relationship.

For this project we have formed links with a major London hospital and we will be making and supplying gifts to the children’s wing. We will be making fancy Children’s blankets that can be used in both winter and summer. Additionally, we will be making cardigans, hats, gloves and woollen fancy shoes etc. adhering to the hospital safety requirements.

This is another innovative project that we have started and thanks to National Lottery Community Fund we are in the second year of the project.

Expansion of this Project & Further Information - Valentine Day Launch

Keeping up with our ambitious aim to improve our services, we have moved this project to a new venue with a Valentine Day 2023 Launch. Following are the details.

The New Centre

The centre is known as Slade Centre (Address: Slade Hall, Erindale, Plumstead, London SE18 2QQ). The Slade Centre is very close to our fundable neighbourhood and for some members within walking distance. It’s on the ground floor with wheel chair access with plenty of free off-street parking and good transport links.

Project Timings & Extra Services

We will be running this project on Wednesdays from 12noon till 4pm with the following timetable.

12 noon till 12.30pm – Exercise session

12.30pm till 1pm – Lunch

1pm till 4pm – Craft Skills session

In addition to exercise and lunch, we will be inviting guest speakers to provide information and run workshops about healthy eating, cost of living crisis, community safety matters in neighbouring streets, diabetes, keep warm during winter, mobility, stress management and self-care etc.

Please watch this space for more information

For further information, please contact our Coordinator Mrs Kulvinder Rayat on 07930397021.

Joint Effort by Our two Projects

Thank you letter from St. Thomas' Hospital

Dear Bal,

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Please thank all of the team for the amazing job they did providing so many gifts for us to share this Christmas. We were able to provide quilts for all the babies across the unit and the teddy bears were a huge hit with the families. We really appreciate all of the effort that everyone has gone to. Please send best wishes to all.

Sister | Neonatal Unit

St Thomas' Hospital

 The Teddies were made by our Community Crafts Skills Project and

The Jumpers and blankets were made by our Community Sewing/Textiles Project. 

Well done!