For further info please follow our separate compassionART page…. 💗
Hi all, Dilly Arts has been asked to share this info by the Northumberland Recovery College who you may recall we linked with via the funding from the NHS Northumberland Winter Resilience Fund whilst delivering our last run of compassionART sessions for people living in Northumberland with long-term chronic illness:![]()
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“The Northumberland Recovery College offers courses and workshops to provide knowledge and skills to improve wellbeing. These cover a wide range of topics from Yoga to budgets, mindfulness to coping skills. Anyone is welcome to attend the college workshops, courses and activities, as well as be involved in the development of the college directly.![]()
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We are always really keen for people to join the Development Groups of the recovery college, so that they can share what activities they think the different areas of Northumberland need. So if anyone from compassionART would be interested in that too, that would be brilliant.”
PLEASE sign and share. The government is planning to dramatically cut funding to a wide range of arts subjects in higher education. Please stand with me and others, including my colleagues in the arts against this 💗🙏💗![]()
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572300/signatures/thank-you
Petition: Do not cut UK higher education Arts Funding
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On the 21st January, Gavin Williamson announced that 50% of the funding will be cut for a range of ‘non-strategic’ subjects - including The Arts. Due this system the Arts will also loose all extra... Haha! Just opened the front door and found this on the door mat! Apparently I’m a ‘Lockdown Legend’, ‘Hexham Hero 2020’ and I’ve won a Hexham Golden Gnome Award.... I understand it’s for the work I’ve done in the community to help people living with long~term chronic illness with my Compassionart project during the pandemic. Huge thanks to all the fabulous artists who have previously delivered sessions and are delivering sessions in our current programme and to Graeme for his technical wizardry! 💗🙏💗
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. Humbled to have been asked to do this interview with the Hexham Courant for their ‘Person of the Week’ feature. The interview came off the back of an interview I did earlier in the month when the Courant picked up on our marketing for our current round of CompassionART sessions. The journalist Rebecca Curry was interested to hear about me, my career in arts development management working across many different communities ranging from asylum seekers and refugees to very young mums (aged 12+) who are by definition also rape survivors to prisoners and their families to people living in extreme poverty and more laterly people living with long~term chronic illness, she also wanted to know about my improved health from ME and being accepted to do my PhD ~ so she called me last week to ask if I’d do the interview. My motivation for the interview was to highlight people living with chronic long~term illness within our communities and to give hope that in some circumstances (sadly I know not all) we can ‘get better’ even when we may have lost all hope of daring to imagine a future.![]()
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Although I spoke of it the article didn’t mention my suicide attempt ~ and nor did it mention the huge credit and thanks I give to Graeme, my wonderful supportive mum and dad (who were amazing at helping out for so many years! THANK YOU!), my children Esmée, Inigo and Effie ~ and to my anam cara Suzy ~ thank you all for being there and helping me through the darkest days of my illness ~ and in Graeme’s case still loving me unconditionally whilst spinning aaaall the plates of holding down an intense full~time job, looking after the children and house whilst caring for me. He shouldered everything! Thank you to all these people but especially Graeme and my children who lived every day with my illness almost as much as me and I know Graeme’s life must have felt like it was put on hold almost as much as mine. I love you mum, dad, kids and Suzy ~ and I love you Graeme! So many with ME are not only dealing with the constant pain and exhaustion but also with the unnecessary and cruel burden of not being believed of being accused of being lazy or having an illness which they can cure with ‘mind over matter’. I was surrounded with acceptance, help and love and I’ll always be grateful for that. ![]()
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The article also doesn’t cite my plea that as the world opens up post lockdown that we don’t forget those who’s lives continue to be within 4 walls due to chronic illness. The pandemic has taken more events, projects and opportunity for participation online and this has been wonderful for the chronically ill community as it’s opened up access for them. Please don’t forget as we move further out of lockdown that for many people ‘lockdown’ is a continuous way of life to which we don’t know if there will ever be an end. Remember this and remember these people ~ please! ![]()
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(Photo credits for the article I’m featured in: Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell) ![]()
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I share the paper this week with among others my friend Ginnie who is featured for her wonderful work setting up the Hexham Fresh Food bank which helps give surplus freshly grown produce to people in our communites. ![]()
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For more info on compassionART and if eligible to book places on our current sessions (we still have some session slots available) please please go to our website compassionart.org.uk and/ or go to/ follow our Compassionart Facebook page. ![]()
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. Dilly Arts is delighted to have received funding from the NHS Northumberland Winter Resilience Fund to enable us to run more of our CompassionART online creative sessions. Due to our funding these sessions are only for people living in Northumberland with long-term chronic illness, including mental health issues. The sessions are self-refer and places are limited with booking essential. We have chosen to deliver this project as part of the launch of the Northumberland Recovery College. ![]()
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To book your places please go to compassionart.org.uk/booking
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The programme for the 2021 run of CompassionART is now online. Lovely to have a piece in the Hexham Courant this week for our CompassionART online project which starts on 12th April. We’ve been asked this week if long term chronic illness includes mental health ~ YES IT ABSOLUTELY DOES! So if you have depression, anxiety or other mental health issue we’d love you to sign up for sessions (Pssssst ~ and we don’t ever ask what your illness is). Places are limited and booking essential. Thanks, ally 💗🙏💗![]()
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Dilly Arts is delighted to have received funding from the NHS Northumberland Winter Resilience Fund to enable us to run more of our CompassionART online creative sessions. Due to our funding these sessions are only for people living in Northumberland with long-term chronic illness. The sessions are self-refer and places are limited with booking essential. We have chosen to deliver this project as part of the launch of the Northumberland Recovery College. ![]()
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To book your places please go to compassionart.org.uk/booking
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The programme for the 2021 run of CompassionART is now online. GREAT NEWS! We received confirmation yesterday of a grant of £20,153 from the Northumberland Winter Resilience Fund to run more CompassionART online creative sessions for people living in Northumberland. So if you, or someone you know are living with a long term chronic illness and would like to access free online creative activities whilst meeting other people from across Northumberland living in similar circumstances please follow our CompassionART Facebook page for further details (including our timetable of sessions) coming soon. Places will be limited and booking necessary. Thank you, ally 🌸
The mental health charity Mind produced this online information, resource and signposting pack to help people who may be struggling with different aspects of living through covid times. Please share.... Stay safe and well everyone. Sending lockdown love. This too shall pass 💗🙏💗![]()
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www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2JV0rGWM-w-KtYdoId5tkxKierJss6NuKmLv6...
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When you’re living with a mental health problem, or supporting someone who is, access to the right information is vital. Hi all, I really hope everyone is as well as possible and you’re all looking forward to a happy Christmas.... I’ve been asked to disseminate this flyer to all our participants who live in Northumberland. The Recovery College are looking for more people from Northumberland communities to be involved with decision making on matters involving mental health and wellbeing. Anyone interested should follow the information on the flyer for contact details ~ it’d be great if some of our CompassionART participants got involved! 🌸 Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas and let’s hope 2021 brings joy, peace, health and happiness across the world 🌸 Ally
The wonderful Yvette Ja who is currently running our CompassionART Paper Art online sessions for people living with long~term chronic illness is offering a beautiful course in book~binding across the world. All the details you need can be found in this link 🌸🙏🌸
Artist Yvette Ja has made this beautiful little film of the books she taught our participants to make in our CompassionART Covid~19 online session yesterday. Our participants really enjoyed the session with Yvette’s wonderful experience and knowledge. I can’t wait for the next 5 sessions! Huge thanks to Yvette for being part of our project and bringing the opportunity of paper art and origami to our participants.![]()
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Most of our sessions are now full, but please do still follow the links below if you’re interested as we will happily add your name to our waiting lists if the sessions you want to participate in are full. We still have spaces in the singing sessions as these can accommodate larger numbers, thanks ally 🌸🙏🌸![]()
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Please head to compassionart.org.uk to find out about the new sessions.![]()
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Go straight to the booking page here: compassionart.org.uk/booking![]()
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Places are limited and bookings are on a first come first serve basis.
Yeasterday I was feeling unwell so wasn’t on fb to share that we had a fantastic first session of paper art with the wonderful Yvette Ja for CompassionART’s Covid~19 project. Such a brilliant session with an amazing artist, I’m looking forward to the next 5 sessions with Yvette in the coming weeks! ![]()
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Most of our sessions are now full, but please do still follow the links below if you’re interested as we will happily add your name to our waiting lists if the sessions you want to participate in are full. We still have spaces in the singing sessions as these can accommodate larger numbers, thanks ally 🌸🙏🌸![]()
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Please head to compassionart.org.uk to find out about the new sessions.![]()
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Go straight to the booking page here: compassionart.org.uk/booking![]()
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Places are limited and bookings are on a first come first serve basis.
compassionart.org.uk
Please tick the sessions you would like to attend, and complete your details in the form below. Places on the sessions are limited and are on a first come Update on Dilly Art’s compassionART Covid~19 sessions for people living with long term chronic health issues, including info for participants for tomorrow’s first yoga session 🌸🙏🌸![]()
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The CompassionART website for 2020 is now available. 24 new sessions incorporating paper-art, singing, up-cycled art, and yoga. Funding from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund has allowed us to offer these workshops free of charge. All of the sessions will be delivered online through Zoom.![]()
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CompassionArt is a project launched in 2018, working with people in and around the rural area of Hexham, Northumberland who are living with long-term chronic illness which prevents them from working, and has a major impact on their daily lives.![]()
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Please head to compassionart.org.uk to find out about the new sessions.![]()
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Go straight to the booking page here: compassionart.org.uk/booking![]()
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Places are limited and bookings are on a first come first serve basis.
Today we received the wonderful news that Dilly Arts has been awarded £9998 from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund to deliver on~line creative sessions for our ongoing CompassionART project. Our participants are all living with long~term chronic illness and this means that the vast majority are high risk and shielding. I’m now working really hard to try to get the sessions up and running ASAP and today I’ve already held discussions with a number of artists who’ll be leading the sessions. Please watch this space for more news including the opening of our on~line booking form. ![]()
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We are incredibly grateful for this funding and would like to extend our huge thanks to the Coronavirus Community Support Fund and the staff at the National Lottery Community Fund who are administering the grants! ![]()
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