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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 3d

🗺️ We had a wonderful first session of Exploring & Sharing Our Heritage project, made possible thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund!

We discussed heritage - exploring memories, traditions, fabrics, how we show respect, language, music, food, treasures, spirituality, play, trees, and seeds.

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 5d

In our Creative Session funded by @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk we spent time to really get to know each other - we shared dreams, memories and passions. We then created artworks using symbols to represent our partners.

The power of listening, kindness and openness 🪷🦋✨️

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 9d

🍂 Our September Newsletter is ready for you! 🍂

Read all our latest news here: theground.org.uk/so/f5PcBm8Kn...

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 10d

September was busy for our Stronger Together Leaders 💪

👉spoke at a roundtable with SE London hospital executives as part of the migrant charging campaign with @citizensuk.org
👉 prepped for the October South London Citizens Assembly (with some creative surprise 👀).

More to come this autumn 🙌

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 12d

From now on we can drink coffee and tea from our own personalised cups! ☕
Our Creative Sessions have started and we are looking forward to spending time together in our new space, respecting, supporting and encouraging each other to grow and reach higher 🌳

Huge thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 16d

🎬 Thanks to @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social we filmed Home in a Bag - a performance co-created by theatre-maker Erene Kaptani and our Theatre in Action group.
We are incredibly proud of our members, who have turned lived experience of Temporary Accommodation into art with a strong call for change. 🌱

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · 18d

We're incredibly grateful to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for supporting us with funding for 4 ongoing creative projects for the next 3 years! 🎉

They're also supporting us with our organisational growth and being able to offer regular wellbeing and reflective meetings for our wider team 💞

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Sep 8

At the Greenwich Overview & Scrutiny Panel we had the privilege of sharing why it matters so deeply for us that Greenwich is a Borough of Sanctuary.

We spoke about what sanctuary means for us at Creating Ground, and for us personally as residents and migrant women who call this borough home. 🌱✨

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Sep 7

On Friday we switched off lights at SET Woolwich and switched on lights at GWest Community & Arts Centre.

It felt like going back to our roots in a year where we will be thinking of growing deeper, being more rooted whilst reaching higher ✨️♥️

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Sep 1

"This is a very important beginning for us as this academic year marks our 10th anniversary."

We begin with gratitude and hope, seeking deeper growth, stronger roots - finding strength in ourselves, in each other, and in our group.

Read our full August newsletter: theground.org.uk/so/88PZDiLfN...

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Aug 27

💛 We are sad to be leaving our space at SET Woolwich, but happy for what is ahead of us.

Moving to GWest Community and Arts Centre feels like returning to our roots, and we can’t wait to make it another welcoming home for our community, carrying everything we’ve grown at SET into the future. 🌱💫

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

theground.org.uk/so/24PXVdatH...

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.💛

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 17

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 🌱✨️

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 16

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! 🧡💛💜

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 9

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. 🧡🧡🧡

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 8

'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 🌸

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our June Newsletter is Here!
Summer is blooming — and so is community, creativity and connection at Creating Ground 🌿🌞
theground.org.uk/so/9ePUj3StS...

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jun 24

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 💛

creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jun 12

✨ 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 👉
www.theground.org.uk/_files/ugd/4...

Thank you to everyone who’s created, shared and built this with us 💕

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creatingground.bsky.social @creatingground.bsky.social · Jun 10

🎨 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

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