This month at Pulling Together we have been working on our latest project Relationship Realities: You, Me and Us. We have been looking at the different relationships and how to try and make healthy choices in making new relationships and what to do to maintain existing relationships.

Looking at the types of relationships we all go through in our lives: friendship, aquantance, parent-child, teacher-student, romantic, sibling, neighbour, classmate, mentor, team-mate, co-worker, boss-worker.

We also looked at what makes a healthy relationship and discussed how to decide if a certain relationship is good for you.

The group decided that they would like to make individual scrapbooks about their healthy relationships

and what each person means to them and how these relationships develop over time.

This month at Pulling Together we completed our Heartstone Banner. It was wonderful to see how the individual panels came together to tell a story of its own. A story of a local group who shared their own histories whilst meeting and creating the textile and chose what they thought best told the story of Chandra and the mice in the search for the Heartstone. Her experiences with racism was something we could all identify with and her courage to overcome these attitudes was what we all have had to do in the past. Using the Union Flag cloth as a backing for our banner was a choice made by the group by showing how the flag is often hijacked by groups who are against immigration and can make us feel uncomfortable in feeling proud for the flag of the country we have all chosen to call home. The most exciting news is that the banner will go on show in the Trafford schools that took part in the project including Urmston Grammar School.