Announcing our latest partnership: ‘PRISM’
Our co-ordinator, Nicky Smith has been working with a brand new arts and wellbeing collective and writes:
‘A new Wellbeing, Arts & Culture Centre opening soon in the North of the City. This is what happens when two northerners’ dreams collide!
A vision to create a space where we can raise money for local charities by offering very cool stuff! Expect sound journeys, women’s circles, men’s circles, music, dance, yoga, jamming, improv, bands, art exhibitions & more. Venue hire is also available. Oh and vegan cakes!
The synchronicity around this project has been wild, the kindness & support breathtaking, the fun & ease heart opening. Rob & I (and Bear, officially the cutest & fluffiest manager in the world) can’t wait to throw the doors wide open & welcome you.
We are deeply grateful to Realife Trust for supporting this new venture & carrying this first iteration under their wing.
We will be launching very soon!’
Hearts of Oak and Realife working together
Founding Director and now Trustee, Tony has been running the Realife Greenstage project from the wonderful setting of the Heaven Sculpture Yard in Suffolk for the past 5 years and we are pleased to say that Heaven’s new CIC, Hearts of Oak Organisation and Realife are working in an ever closer partnership, with Realife named as Hoo’s assett lock charity. Tony remains a trustee at Realife and is a Director at HOO.
Our Mark awarded a Churchill Fellowship
Realife chair Mark Brookes adds a Churchill Fellowship to his MBE and honorary Doctorate for his work on hate crime with Dimensions, the national learning disability housing and support agency.
This funding will allow Dr Brookes to undertake overseas learning to understand international approaches to disability hate crime politically, legally, and within law enforcement. For the purposes of this project, disability hate crime relates predominately, but not exclusively, to people with learning disabilities and autism.
Dr Brookes will travel to the USA, and within Europe to research positive initiatives and approaches to victims of disability hate crime and the application of hate crime legislation in these countries.
The Noisy Women Collective grant award
Fara, Nicky, Ames and the rest of the collective have been awarded a £10000 grant from the Serpentine Trust and it comes with a support and mentoring package to expand their work nationally.
Move it or lose it!
Nicky Smith from the Realife Wellbeing Centre held a workshop Seniors Fair at the Cambridge United Football Club where participants joined in with a ‘Move it or Lose it clas’s