This week at Pulling Together we completed our fabric book for the A-Z of Britishness.

This week at Pulling Together we were able to distribute some amaryllis plants as part of our Blooming OT project. We will post images of the bulbs after they have flowered.

This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our A-Z banner of Britishness. Thank you to all of the members who have helped prepare the squares and to those who have helped in stitching it together.

This week at Pulling Together we have been creating our printed fabric book for our A-Z of Britishness project.

This week at Puling Together we almost completed our A-Z of Britishness digital display but were unable to decide on what we could display as Z. Most of the words have multiple entries so various techniques will be used including embroidery and quilting fabric printed books.

This week at Pulling Together following the sad news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.This weeks session was spent talking about the news and what everyone was feeling. It was decided that over the next few days members would take part in local memorials and go to The Proclamation of the Ascension in their local areas. Some of the members signed books of condolences and some lay flowers. Many of the older generation of families remembered when a call was made to countries of the Commonwealth to help rebuild Britain after the second world war. It was through this that many of the families came and settled here to work in local factories.

This week at Pulling Together as part of our A-Z of Britishness members of the group were given some plants to help create their own English Gardens. Whilst talking to members of the group many of them spoke about how they loved to look into gardens and admire what people were growing. Being able to make containers and grow vegetables reminded some of the members about when families had small plots of land in their homeland and often grew mangoes, lemons, figs and tamarind.

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.