Significant Seams, The Turning Tides Project, Devon
Art Tuition, generously supported by members of Sustainable
Crediton's Community Larder group are pleased to be co-presenting
an exciting programme of summer activities and sharing of food over
13 dates in the school summer holidays for 11-16 year olds.
Significant Seams has secured funding from Devon County Council to
enable young people entitled to Free School Meals to attend for
free.
The programme is part of the Devon County Council
Holiday Activity & Food Programme (#HAFDevon2024), supported by
GWR, Hodemedod Foods, and Awards for All. (Additional support is
welcome to ease real pressures on the costs of delivery. The core
delivery budget has had no increases for the cost of inflation in
two years.)
On each of the day of the programme, except 30 August,
activities will include outdoor cooking and food preparation,
art-making with artists and Bronze Arts Award candidates who are
sharing a skill, music and song making, outdoor exploring/discovery
activities. Activities will include flower pounding, rock painting,
paper and mask making, puppet making, fabric decorating, MAKING THE
ARTICULATED WINGS OF A GIANT DRAGON SCULPTURE for an outdoor
Amphitheatre, and 3-d decorated letters. Participants will meet at
the Turning Tides Tea Rooms at Crediton Train Station and walk to
Four for All, the Turning Tides Woodland Community Garden
overlooking the train lines accessed from Four Mills Lane.
It all sounds a bit mysterious doesn't it? But dragons
and adventures in the woods are meant to be!
It will be amazing fun. Come join us! Details
of our events day by day and booking arrangements are
detailed here. Also on the QR code
on the poster below.
On 30 August we will have a group trip via GWR to
Exeter Northcott's Barnfield theatre in Exeter. GWR are providing
us free travel, and confident travel training tips. We will then
have pizza as part of the performance of Pizza Wars at Barnfield
Theatre, and return to Crediton by train together.
Across our programme, once introduced, most activities
will stay available to participants through the following days of
the programme. Booking is essential. We have 15 FREE places
available each day for 11-16 year olds entitled to free school
meals. Additional spaces are chargeable on a not for profit basis
(and individuals can donate to enable further free spaces at £35
each). Any surpluses will support future initiatives for youth,
health and wellbeing.
The activity programme
features:
Wednesday 31 July, noon-4pm:
Making from Nature: Flower Pounding, Drop Spinning,
Flower Crowns, Rock painting, Wild Weaving
Thursday 1 August, Monday 5 August - Friday 9 August,
noon - 4pm:
Making masks from a clay form, making puppets
Monday 12 August - Friday 16 August, noon
-4pm:
Making dragon wings
Friday 30 August:
Group trip via GWR to Exeter Northcott's Barnfield
theatre. Meet at Crediton train station at 5:30pm, collection at
Crediton train station at 9:45pm.
Volunteers interested in supporting the programme are welcome to
get in touch. Sustainable Crediton Community Larder group and
Significant Seams are coordinating this activity. Volunteers
can:
- Help pre-make meals (or part of meals), stews, breads, smoothie
kits etc to feed 20-25 people on the 13 days of the programme;
- Help source or collect donated dry goods
and foodstuff;
- Help engage/lead young people in food
preparation during the programme delivery;
- Contribute recipes to the new Community
Larder Recipe Bank project.
Volunteers will be supported to acquire required
certifications where needed. All involved in food prep will need a
current food hygiene certificate and those interacting with young
people will need an enhanced DBS check. To express interest in
becoming involved, email admin@significantseams.org.uk.
![2024 summer youth prog](/media/979320/summer-prog.jpg)