This week at Pulling Together we began our new project funded by GMVCO – Health Is Wealth comicstrip. Using digital resources we have begun to develop stories for our latest comic book. We have looked at issues surrounding our local community and ways to solve these problems. The first issue we looked at was diabetes and how we can take steps to improve our health

This week at Pulling Together we continued with our A-Z of Britishness Book. We continued with our discussion and collection of images and words to include in our project books. Looking at these words and objects and how they make us feel British and a part of our community we live in. We have continued making our digital slideshow of the images that come to mind and have continued up to the letter L.

This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our comic book and talked about how people can improve health and wellbeing using the 5 Ways of Wellbeing established by the New the New Economics Foundation (Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Give, Keep Learning and interpret them as –
Discover Something New, Change How You Feel, Connect With Others, Take Some Time for Yourself
Develop New Skills.

This week we completed the collection of postcards for the Our Place project. Members have enjoyed using Canva to make their designs and decide on the finished images. Look out for all four of the postcards in local libraries.

This week at Pulling Together we continued with our Health Is Wealth Comic book. Through the comic strip various scenarios were created by the young women to help raise and resolve some of the issues and dilemmas that affect Old Trafford and South Asian communities that impact on their health and wellbeing. Some of the young women were discussing the fact that they will be moving on to University in September and were beginning to feel a little nervous about their first time living away from home and family.

This week at Pulling Together we have been looking at some of the words we wanted to go into our A-Z of Britishness books. So many suggestions have been given that all deserve a page in our book that perhaps multiple books will be developed for us to display at our end of project event. Using these images we can help the women understand and comprehend the history and customs of Britain and how they impact on South Asians especially the Commonwealth countries. 

This week at Pulling Together we began our latest project “A-Z of Britishness”. In this project we will use creative arts to compile A-Z of Britishness books that will look at what makes us British. In our ever changing society we will discuss what we see as “being British” and what South Asians have taken from Britain during the past 70 years and what we have adopted to create a unique British Asian.