Child services worker Michelle Cunningham (CF 2014) has been awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England this month. Michelle will use the funding to create an interactive children’s ebook that aims to support their mental wellbeing.
Artist Leon Clowes (CF 2011) was interviewed by the BBC about his storytelling project this month. Leon shared his experience of kinship care and his work through the Nans Kids project to tell the stories of those raised by their grandparents.
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The work of assistant head teacher Heba Al-Jayoosi (CF 2019) was featured in the online news website My London this month. The piece discusses Heba’s Activate Fund project, which is using flexible seating arrangements to support autistic pupils in her school.
By Heba Al-Jayoosi,
Prison Reform Trust Associate Sarah Beresford (CF 2012) was interviewed by the Centre for Justice Innovation about her Activate Fund project on 4 November. Sarah is using her Activate grant to pilot a new assessment framework for supporting children who have a parent or carer in the criminal justice system.
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Charity founder Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (CF 2016) ran a pilot training session this month on economic wellbeing and maternity for employers at the charity she founded, Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA). The training formed part of Nicola’s Covid-19 Action Fund project, which is developing ways of preventing economic abuse.
By Nicola Sharp-Jeffs,
