Let me give you a bit of background to the work we're doing...
The Happiness Project is a collaboration between Forest Hall Brownies and Guides and Park View Care Home in Forest Hall, Newcastle. The project was launched in January 2019 after Park View Care Home reached out to the community to see if anybody was interested in visiting the residents in the home. As Leader in Charge of the Guide unit, I thought this was a great opportunity and roped in the Leader in Charge at Brownies, and following a meeting with the activities coordinator at Park View we agreed that we would visit the home every month to meet with the residents, chat and do activities.
The purpose of the Happiness Project is twofold: first and foremost, we want to alleviate the feeling of loneliness in the residents of the care home but in addition to this we also want to encourage our girls to feel a connection with their local community.
We were very lucky at the start and received a grant from the lottery community fund to help us to deliver the activities. From our launch in January 2019 we have spent time chatting to the residents and running fun craft activities. Some of the activities we have delivered have included creating paper flower bouquets, decorating trinket boxes, creating happiness jars and flower arranging.
The girls and the residents get on so well together and the chatter between them is so heart warming, it's great to see the different generations coming together and sharing experiences.
Our little project has recently been selected as one of the Co-op's Community Fund causes and over the next year you will be able to select us as your chosen cause when you shop at Co-op. We will keep you updated on what we're getting up to through this blog and on our other social media pages
I hope you enjoy reading about what we get up to as much as we enjoy taking part in it.
If you want to see what we've been up to so far please visit https://www.facebook.com/HappyForestHall/
See you all soon
K
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