We have a hilarious epic fail from Nikki, we’re chatting about stars visiting the North East with Will in our Showbiz news, and finally we have a fantastic guest, Gareth the poet. Gareth is probably the most unlikely poet you could meet – by his own admission!
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V E Day Inspired Care Packages
In May 2020 we were all planning on celebrating V E day in style but that was not to be! The pandemic hit and almost everything and everyone stopped and stayed at home. Pimm’s and Needles were keen to get out there and help in any way that we could so we applied to The […]
Supporting our Silver Ladies
We are very grateful to County Durham Community Foundation for believing in us and our vision since the very beginning. CDCF provided us with our first ever grant back in 2017 to run a ‘Silver Members Club’ specifically aimed at elderly women who needed social interaction. The group has engaged around 50 ladies each month […]
Intergenerational Pen-pal scheme
The Hadrian Trust kindly gave us a grant fund to be able to continue an intergenerational Pen- pal project which we established in the Autumn of 2020. The pen pal scheme was launched with funding from County Durham Community Foundation with the aim of bringing together both young and old. Children from Croft C of […]
850 Winter Activity Care Packages for elderly residents of County Durham
Durham County Council and their Area Action partnerships provided us with one of our largest grants to date in December 2020.This project was a huge undertaking and took a huge amount of co-ordination to get it off the ground.In January, just as The prime Minister had announced the country was heading back into full lockdown […]
Online Friendship Programme
In December 2020 Comic relief provided funding for us to deliver Friendship Programme with a blended learning approach.This project was open to people of any age who were finding it difficult to cope with lockdown and suffering from mental or physical health concerns due to the pandemic.We had 50 participants who took part in the […]