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Reachout Create

2.30pm Tuesday 3rd December 2024
Hear Us Croydon / Reachout Challenge / Reachout Create
Image that reads Reachout Create. On the left is a megaphone with creative materials coming out of it like a paint brush, camera, and music notes.

Hear Us’ newest project, Reachout Create, enables mental health service users to share their stories of lived experience in creative and inclusive ways.

Thanks to funding from the London Community Foundation through the Adobe Fund, we are launching our newest project: Reachout Create. Our research from other Hear Us projects (like our Linkworking project) has shown that some people in our community with lived experience of mental health conditions find it easier to tell their story in creative ways.

Based on this, we’ll be hosting a series of creative sessions and workshops over the next two years and they will be run by artists with lived experience. With your permission, the work that you create in these workshops will be added to our training materials as part of our ‘ReachOut Challenge’ anti-stigma and mental health awareness campaign.  

Our future workshops may include creative writing, photography, animation, drawing, and more.

We hosted our Reachout Create Open Day on December 17th at Orchard House. Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to a warm, peaceful, and creative atmosphere.

Attendees got a taster of our newest project, and suggested ideas for future creative workshops. Some suggestions included journalism and calligraphy. What free creative workshops would you like to take part in in the coming two years? Contact may@hear-us.org to share your suggestions. If you have a creative skill you’d like to share with the community, please drop us an email and we can organise a workshop together! 

May Elroubi
Reachout Coordinator
Hear Us
Orchard House
15a Purley Road
South Croydon
Surrey
CR2 6EZ
Tel: 020 8681 6888
Email: campaignsproject@hear-us.org
Webpage: www.hear-us.org/forum/