This week at Pulling Together  will see us preparing our meals using food from our Ready, Steady, Cook challenge. We have now delivered food bags to all of the members that wished to take part in the challenge and asked for them to photograph the meal prep and the final meals. We will post these images next week. Good luck to all those that are taking part.

 

 

This week at Pulling Together the group met after a break of one week. It was good to welcome the group back after our second lockdown Eid. With the group being in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester we all had to go back into lockdown and so plans for family Eids had to be changed at the last minute.

The group have asked for us to do a Ready, Steady, Cook type session. So we will be delivering some food products to the members that wish to take part and see what they make with those items.

The group would also like to congratulate  Robina on winning her “EPIC STAR” award that she was nominated for by Cllr Robert Chilton.

This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing sessions on Zoom. The benefit of a virtual session over our actual sessions is that we can schedule in extra sessions during the week to discuss how we make masks and where to find the best patterns for masks. The mask patterns that some of us have decided to use are from Patrick Grant of The Great British Sewing Bee as part of the Big Community Sew Project.

This week at Pulling Together we would like to thank our group in helping to stitch together the panels into our banner. The banner is a wonderfully creative piece of work to display our time in lockdown.

This week at Pulling Together has been very busy we have begun to embroider our individual panels for our Lockdown Banner. Drawing, designing and adapting each image into a special format for the embroidery machine took a while however the end results were very impressive.

This week at Pulling Together’s Zoom meeting we continued to decide what images would be added to our A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing banner. After 100 days of lockdown it was decided that this banner would reflect the last few months and the changes we have all made. Working through the list it was fun to see how new words had all become part of our everyday vocabulary- Social Distance, Zoom, Covid-19. Whilst working through the list talking about each of the topics became an important part of the project especially when we looked at isolation and the problems it caused to our mental health and wellbeing during lockdown.

Thank you to everyone who sent these images through during the session.

This week at Pulling Together we met  for the first time time since lockdown  began in March. After the change to government guidelines a few members of the group met up with one family in their garden to make planters. It was wonderful to meet up and be creative at the same time.

This week at Pulling Together we had another virtual meeting on Zoom.  It is always good to see everyone on Friday evenings even if it is online and see what every one has created in the past week.

This week at Pulling Together we continued with finding information about what we needed to add to our scrapbook. Using the internet we have all tried to research and compile the information about our A-Z.

When Pulling Together applied to Comic Relief for this funding, Corona Virus was something that no one had heard of. By the time the funding was awarded Corona Virus had changed all our lives, because of this the final project that we will create will be centered around Corona Virus and the changes it has caused.

This week we held our first Zoom session on our latest project A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing. After a few technical hiccups it was great to see all our group together even if it is online. During the session we managed to work out  some ofwhat we wanted for each of the letters. No points for guessing what we picked for C and V.