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Heart of Salford Award Success
The Heart of Salford Awards took place yesterday, Thursday 3rd June 2010 and Start in Salford were extremely proud to be nominated for the Organisation of the Year Award by volunteer Sian Roberts.
Our Arts on Prescription volunteer Constance Fearne won the 'Personal Achievement' Award for all that she has overcome and achieved whilst working as a volunteer at Start in Salford.
Introducing our Ceramics Coordinator, Will Broughton!
"Hi, I'm Will, the Ceramics Coordinator at Start in Salford. In the last few months the ceramic department has shifted up a gear to become a hive of industry.
Our income generation volunteers have been producing our Lowry figures as fast as they can to cover orders. Thanks to them for all their hard work- keep it up guys!
As well as this there is a new entry & level one ASENTIS program which is due to complete it’s first year in June. Well done to all those on the course everybody has made excellent progress this year!
Salford Mayor visits Start
We were honoured to have the company of Mayor and Mayoress of Salford to Start.
On their visit they had a look around our different departments and viewed the work done by our members, from woodwork to photography, to our recently refurbished garden. It is safe to say that they were very impressed with all the work done here at Start.
They also visited the people's gallery, where they were shown around by artist of the exhibition, Sydney Cauldwell (pictured, taken by Phil Hamer).
It was a lovely visit and we hope that they come back to see us again soon.
Add content to our new website
Now that our website is up and running we are planning a series of short workshops introducing the site and learning just how easy it is to create content. Initially this will be for the Start team/staff and later for members.
Keep an eye on the Start team/staff Forums for postings about sessions.
The development of the site and its success will depend upon updates and fresh content being added on a regular basis and is the perfect way of showing just how great the work is here at Start in Salford!
AOP volunteer Constance Fearn leads her first sessions!
Arts on Prescription volunteer Constance Fearn has recently successfully led a 6 week member skill share session for the user led group. The work produced in the sessions were outstanding and feedback from members has been very positive. Well done Constance, we are so proud of you.
New Staff at Start in Salford
A huge welcome to our three new staff members; Volunteer Coordinator Cathie Jones, Ceramics Coordinator Will Broughton and Woodwork Coordinator Ian Saville; we very much look forward to working with you all.
'A landmark in the landscape' Start in Salford's garden book
The therapeutic and educational benefits of gardening are well documented particularly by the research carried out by Thrive and Loughborough University.
Here at START we commissioned a book that documents a year in the life of our gardening group, aptly titled by one of our members 'A landmark in the landscape'. The publication beautifully illustrates the meaning and the benefits of engaging in a community horticultural project and the impact it has on individual’s social, physical and mental and emotional wellbeing. Transcribed interviews and photographs taken by the members and truly capture the essence of the project.
Celebrating World Mental Health Day 2008
World Mental Health Day is a specific day each year which focuses on mental health, and celebrates the positive work that is being carried out in the mental health field.
In response to World Mental Health Day, Salford hosted a number of events which took place throughout the week, culminating with an event on Friday the 10th October 2008 at Princes Park, Salford.
Start in Salford visits 'Woodfest' in North Wales
Start in Salford attended the 2008 Woodfest event in June, where we showed off our yurt as a gallery space for the ‘Start Creative’ products. Sales were extremely good, but what really made the weekend a success, was achieving a commission to produce another Yurt!
