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Gawthorpe Textiles Collection

gawthorpe textiles collection

5.0(9)

Padiham

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection (GTC) is the operating name of independent museum and registered charity The Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Textile Collections. Since its establishment in 1959, the charity has existed to deliver its powerful founding vision focused on education, public access to the collection for all and the promotion of wellbeing. The aims and purposes of the charity have never been more relevant as the country faces the challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic. GTC operates from the Gawthorpe Hall estate in Padiham, Lancashire; family home to founder Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth MBE (1886- 1967), a life long collector of global textile and craft items. Rachel was a prolific lace maker and embroiderer. She was also a philanthropist who devoted her life to actively improving the social welfare of the communities on her doorstep. The charity’s long term ambition is to work in partnership to realise Rachel's vision of creating a craft house, a centre of excellence for learning in textiles. As the only dedicated textile collection of its size and variety in Lancashire, the collection which stands at over 30,000 pieces of global provenance, is a truly remarkable resource. It is one of the most diverse, interesting and encyclopaedic textile collections in the UK and is known to specialists worldwide. In a digital age which is seeing a strong resurgence in the value of hand crafts, GTC champions traditional craft skills, celebrates creativity and delivers programmes of activity which have profound and positive life changing effects on individuals’ mental wellbeing and life skills, promoting a sense of community - all through participation in craft. Key activities undertaken by the charity fall into two strands; management and care of the collection including research, documentation, acquisition, interpretation and conservation. Secondly, sharing the collection with the public; catering to a broad range of ages, cultural backgrounds and skill levels. This includes delivering historic and contemporary exhibitions, artist collaborations, workshops, talks, tours, research and study visits, as well as outreach in the local community through Valley Street Textiles Studio (a joint initiative with Calico Homes).

Headstart Sports Consultancy Ltd

headstart sports consultancy ltd

5.0(1)

Epsom

About Us BOOK NOW Our family business has been providing Day Camps locally since 1991. Mark Smith, Director, runs the front line, and holds MSc in Exercise & Sport Science and consults within local schools, sports teams and organisations. Founder of EK, Jeff 'Eagle', has over 45 years experience within education and brings invaluable expertise to the development of the Headstart ethos - 'providing supervised care of your children in a fun and safe environment'. As parents ourselves, we know just how important your children are, and so are personally available to answer your questions as and when they arise. We invite you to enjoy our unique experience... Our Team Friendly, caring, enthusiastic Activities supervised by our team of reliable, caring and enthusiastic coaches who have worked with us for many years and are vetted, trained and DBS checked. Many of whom have come through the Camp as participants! We are fully insured and have first aiders on site at all times. Your children are in safe hands! Our Ethos Happy childhood memories We provide a fun and safe environment where children have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of activities. Our 'play' approach allows children to try new things and choose their games, all supervised by an enthusiastic coaching team. Children make friends, develop physical and social skills, and learn transferable life skills. Our Times/Prices Daily bookings available Price: £40/day Arrival: 8.45am-9.00am Pick-up: 3.45-4.00pm Ext pick-up: 5.00-5.30pm Fridays are FREE when booking the whole week! Our Venues St. Martin's Junior School, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7AD Stamford Green Primary School, Christ Church Mount, Epsom, KT19 8LU St Christopher's School, 6 Downs Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 5HE Warren Mead Infant School, Partridge Mead, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 1LS Over the sites we have both indoor and outdoor facilities including large halls, gym, art room, drama studio, hard courts, astroturf pitches, and playing fields.

By Our Hands We Make Our Way

by our hands we make our way

4.9(41)

Freckingham Street

Making anything right now is a radical act in defiance of fear: making something however simple seeming – baking bread, making the bed; making art or a garden; a stiff drink or your mind up. It’s time to get creative and figure out how to keep our fingers busy, hearts full and souls satisfied. Time to roll sleeves up and get those hands dirty (as long as you wash ’em before and afterwards!) Finding ways to continue connections and sustain friendship feels so important, we’re glad that you’re a part of our community. Whatever comes next we have to make it together. Even if we can’t be with you here there are things that we’d like to share. There are tools at the workshop waiting for hands to use them. We’ll be glad to see shavehorses, benchhooks, chopping blocks, mallets and whittling tools loaned out to good homes, keeping folk crafting. We were so lucky to recieve a lot of wood before the doors closed, we’d love to see it go out to people who can use it. Let us know if you’d like a delivery of fresh green cherry, birch, whitebeam or oak. There are books in the library that could keep you busy learning something new over the next weeks and months. We’re working online too, hosting a shared space to chip away at whatever you feel like. Making a place to talk, weep, dance, laugh while we carve something beautiful together. Fridays are a good time to try, if someone is in the studio then you are virtually welcome to sit and have a cuppa, what’s on your mind?