What does making mean to you?
What have you made today?
A work of art? A cuppa? A friendship? A pair of gloves? A connection? A cake?
A difference?
We believe everyone is a maker. We'd love to hear what you've made.
#WhatShallWeMakeHere?
Applications are now open for the Movers and Shakers Community Fund - a brand new fund by and for people living in Amber Valley.
£1 to £1000 for new, imaginative ideas that benefit you and the place you care about in Amber Valley.
https://t.co/FekLo7xn4Q
Tomorrow we welcome out Neighbourhood Creative Agents to our first session together with @Platform_Thrty1. Six neighbours, living in towns and villages across Amber Valley, working together to activate and mobilise creativity on their doorstep👇👇
🔗 https://t.co/WSWAecdrr9
This week we’ve had the absolute pleasure of hosting workshops, meet-ups and workspace at the glorious @grow_outside in Butterley. Thanks to the many community decision makers, collaborators & friends who joined us and to Claire and Kirsty for looking after us so well 💚🙏
Great 2 gather in chesterfield today & hear from @ClaireWard4EM@RebeccaBlackma6@ace_midlands about priorities 4 new EMCCA. Thanks @davidjubb@CitizensInPow for reminder that there is urgent need for experimentation, creativity & courage to do things differently💥💥
Calling all makers! 📢 Help us MAKE Assemble 2024…
✨SAVE THE DATE: Assemble is back 26th October
If you’re a maker who’d like to get involved in Derby’s Making Festival this year, we’d love to hear from you https://t.co/sSvZantM1O
Assemble 2024 is supported by Vaillant UK
🎉Applications are open to People & Place 2025
Do you have a bold idea to deliver long-term change in your neighbourhood?
@FootworkTrust provides 1-2-1 support, an unrestricted £5K grant and a peer network of community innovators
Find out more & apply👇
https://t.co/ZQ46MTOM7O
⏳ Last chance to register for tomorrow’s open-to-all Intro to Collective Care Webinar! Learn how to bring more care & sustainability into your social justice work. ✨
🔗 Grab one of the last places by registering via the link below!
https://t.co/sRicIOzdUZ
NEW COMMISSION OPPORTUNITY!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@JunctionArtsUK & videoclub want to commission LGBTQIA+ artist to work with community in and around Chesterfield to create new artwork for projection onto Bolsover Castle in November.
💰£4,000 fee
ℹ️https://t.co/OM8r9nK1OD
⏳Deadline: 31 July 24
How do we weave healthy communities? That's been our inquiry for the past 5 years. And so proud to share with you all the Community Weaving Framework. It has 5 elements: The Fire, the Web, the Rhythm, the Circles, the Spiral. How does this resonate? https://t.co/Di0uJ6K2l6
We had a great day at #HeanorHorticulturalShow on Saturday modelling a community garden together!
Do you think we missed anything? What else should a community garden have?
And sign up to the next workshop on Monday ✨✨What it means to work on your doorstep ✨✨ Sharing tales and talking through the beauty and brutality of combining our roles as professionals and neighbours https://t.co/Vk6iAJr6ak
We started the week in style with a brilliant workshop hosted by @Platform_Thrty1 at Infinite Wellbeing Community Centre digging into all things Community Co-Creation ✨✨
If you’re curious about what if takes to hold space for connection and collaboration where you live. You can dive into some of the content from the workshop here https://t.co/PLogRA61pW