🌿 Our July Newsletter is here - Catch up on everything we’ve been creating, sharing, and celebrating! 🌿

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Some of our incredible Stronger Together Leaders visited the @trustforlondon.bsky.social London offices — not just to say thank you, but to honour three years of transformative support behind our #NoticeUs campaign.

Their belief in us helped spark confidence, connection, and courage.💛

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@trustforlondon.bsky.social @citizensuk.org www.fixthefivebasics.org

Special to be part of an action across London to launch Fix the 5 basics Campaign with Better TA Alliance.
An opportunity to celebrate what achieved so far with our Cabinet Member for Housing & reconfirm the commitment to work together to make stays in TA healthier, safer and better for everyone 🌱✨️

Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey ✨, especially to Brookhill Children Centre for letting us use their space and feeding us the most delicious lunch. We’re excited for all that 2025 still holds for us! 🧡💛💜

Yesterday, we had a fantastic day celebrating and reflecting on a year of creativity, connection, and cross-cultural sharing ✨ We’re so proud of our amazing women who delivered powerful presentations with such confidence 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

What a performance! 👏🏼👏🏼 Today we watched the amazing Citizens of the World Choir at the House of Lords. Our own talented members, Karen and Ijeoma, sang together with the group 🎶. The event marked the end of Refugee Week celebrations and showed how music and poetry can truly bring us together. 🧡🧡🧡

'I like cherry trees, because the fruits are always hanging out at least two or three together, like us.'

In My Creative Skills, we’ve been learning embroidery, drawing inspiration from trees and their fruits 🌳✨

Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for supporting this project 🌸

Last week in our Creativity for Wellbeing session, we said a heartfelt goodbye to our wonderful Rajni 💞

To mark the occasion, we all wore green — the colour of mindfulness, growth, peace, and hope 🌿 Rajni, thank you for your warmth, creativity, and the light you brought to every session.

Our June Newsletter is Here!
Summer is blooming — and so is community, creativity and connection at Creating Ground 🌿🌞
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We’re so proud to have been part of Protein Dance's 'There and Here: A Celebration' for #RefugeeWeek2025! 🎉

What we created together was more than choreography. It was trust. Joy. A reminder that we belong.

Huge thanks to our brilliant facilitators and Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund 💛

In Online Creative Skills we explored the theme of connection - what it means to us, when we've felt connected to ourselves, someone or a place. After sharing we each added to an online image - a collective expression of connection, shaped by every voice in the group.
Thanks @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

✨ Our 2024–2025 Impact Report is here! ✨

“No matter what difficulties we go through outside, when we come here we always laugh."

Read our full story of creativity, connection and change 👉
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Thank you to everyone who’s created, shared and built this with us 💕

🎨 One week, we wrote a collaborative poem.
🎨 The next, we each made a “strengths patch” reflecting on our personal power.
Together, we used these to decorate the poem and celebrate our collective strength 💛

Thank you to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for helping make this online space possible

So proud our Director, Laura won Best Leader of The Year award at @citizensuk.org South London Delegates Assembly on Tuesday. We also won Best Alliance of The Year! A very emotional event for us all!

Excited for our next steps working on chosen priority for South London: Housing

Stronger Together

Welcome Ewa to Creating Ground ✨ and to our team 🤗 we are so excited and happy to have you as our Stronger Together Community Organiser thanks to @citybridgefndn.bsky.social
Getting stronger and stronger 💪🏼💫

Our latest newsletter is here! We are excited to share:
🌷 Our Impact Report 2024-2025
🌷 Highlights from May
🌷 Upcoming Refugee Week event details

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We had a wonderful day at Westcombe Woodlands, thanks to Rich and Andy, sat round a fire roasting yams, corn, plantain, and fish, and walking through the woodlands.

"I went to nature, appreciated it and now I am bringing it home"

Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for supporting this project 🌱

Huge thanks to Greenwich Mental Health Hub @selmindcharity.bsky.social for supporting this project 💫

Creativity for Wellbeing was even more special last week as we all wore something white. Our guest facilitator Eric, a local actor, through stories and drawing, made us reflect on kindness, what it means to us, how it has helped us and how it can contribute to making this world a better place 🌹

Powerful day on Monday in Parliament with ‪@citizensuk.org and @trustforlondon.bsky.social at the launch of their new report on temporary accommodation, calling for 5 basic standards: cooking, info, WiFi, laundry & storage.

So proud of our Leaders who spoke ✨

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🚨 A new report launched today 'A long way from home: Improving the experiences of people in temporary accommodation' by @citizensuk.org & @trustforlondon.bsky.social reveals the dire realities of #TemporaryAccommodation (TA) in the UK.

Thousands of families are trapped in a broken system. 🧵

Thanks to University of Greenwich and Erene Kaptani we're exploring playback theatre in our Theatre in Action group, a new tool to use for our social action work. Such an exciting new door opening for us to share stories, reflect and create connections, solutions, awareness and dialogue 🌟

So nice to spend the day celebrating together our 9th anniversary. An opportunity for us to relax, unwind and get to know each other better 🎈☀️❤️

Thanks to Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund and @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for supporting us to make this day happen, and to all our wonderful members!

Huge thanks to Sef Townsend, an international storyteller who told us a story that brought us together and made us reflect on belonging, home and what it means to create a community around you with kindness and resilience.

#migrefhealth project
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✨ Creating Ground is 9 years today 🥳
So grateful and lucky to have been in this incredible journey, with so many of you, and thanks to so many of you. We thank all our supporters, funders, partners, team members...each and everyone of you made CG what it is today.

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In Creativity for Wellbeing we started to introduce new ideas into our project thanks to the professional development courses through Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund. We are excited to see the impact this will have on our projects and how we use creativity and arts for wellbeing.

"I am usually shy but here I have come out of my shell"
"Freedom - when I come here I feel my shoulders are light"

Last term ended with a creative evaluation of our project and we can't wait to take those reflections forward.

Starting again on Wednesday 30th April 🌟

See flyer for more info 💚

Very happy to be together again after the Easter Break. Together, we made plans for the term ahead, and then relaxed with some stone painting led by the wonderful Lucie.

Huge thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for supporting our My Creative Skills project 🎨

We run a session for the Housing Inclusion Team at Greenwich Council yesterday showing "The Snow Inn Hotel", as part of our #Noticeus campaign with @trustforlondon.bsky.social
An opportunity for connection, mutual learning & understanding, a great reminder of how much stronger we can be together ✨️