Congratulations to our winner in December. It’s A Girl Thing – http://www.Fempads.com In an endeavour to break down barriers ‘Its A Girl Thing’ work with a wonderful eclectic mix of people in sewing and fundraising groups to show we can ALL work together for the greater good. These include Hippies, Muslims, Pagans, Christians and Quakers, […]
Read more "Winner of Worcester Soup #2"By using recyclable, reusable and natural resources our group of young volunteers make seasonal crafts which we will sell and help raise money for the Worcester Roots Foundation charity. How will you use the money: to buy more equipment and for marketing, such as session promotion posters, leaflets and also so we can attend crafts […]
Read more "Recycled crafts"Within our Emotional support group for young people we have developed with young people a mental health first aid kit. This is a bag of resources that young people can use to help reduce anxiety. The kits have been developed and reviewed with young people which has led to some changes and further development. Within the kits are such […]
Read more "Mental Health First Aid Kits"Worcester Welly Library is a ‘not for profit’ organisation (running since early July 2015) based in Worcester, lending children’s wellies to those in need! We aim to help parents provide their child/ren with appropriate footwear. We also accept donations of unwanted wellies from local families, businesses and the community to help reduce the negative impact […]
Read more "Worcester Welly Library"Web address: allsortsofpa.co.uk We are a non-profit community group that professionally trains and gives opportunities to all by engaging social interaction with children & young adults in the community. This encourages children to explore their talents in the performing arts thus building confidence. We are all fully committed to the active promotion of equal opportunities in […]
Read more "All sorts of performing arts"Care Ceramics CIC is a Community Interest Company set up to provide pottery activities to adults with a learning disability and other groups who may find it difficult to access arts activity. Care Ceramics is outreach and centre based work with the aim to provide interesting pottery activity with the potential to develop skills in […]
Read more "Care Ceramics CIC"Congratulations to Julia and Aspie Avengers who are our first winners of Worcester Soup, taking away a crowd fund of £324.65. Here is some background on Aspie Avengers and the other 3 pitchers on the night. All of you did an amazing job. PROJECT NAME: ASPIE AVENGERS Web address: aspieeverywhere.org.uk Facebook: facebook.com/aspieUK ASPIE is a social self-help […]
Read more "Winner of Worcester Soup #1"January is always a natural time to reflect on the past year and look forward to what the new year will bring. For this reason we are kicking off 2016 with a Worcester Soup New Year Meet-up at Cafe Bliss at the Arts Workshop on 29th January from 7pm. As always, everyone is welcome. It is a chance to meet […]
Read more "Want to help take Soup forward in 2016?"It is easy to see why, on first look, Worcester Soup seems to be all about being the winning pitch and taking home the crowd funded pot of cash – but it is much more than that. When our small team got together in May we wanted to learn the lessons from Detroit. They had put great […]
Read more "Much more than the money"Hi. It has been a while since I’ve managed to get the time to write a blog entry, but with just over 24 hours to go until our first Soup it was clearly time to make time. So much has happened it is tricky to know where to start. I think I’ll start with some announcements for […]
Read more "Detroit meets Worcester tomorrow. Will you be there?"