The Willow Walker is an umbrella project
which significantly supports, celebrates and encourages varied meaningful
activity amongst homeless people in Cambridge. This is promoted through
the production of a high quality quarterly magazine with a distribution
of 2000 copies per issue. The
Willow Walker is valued by clients and colleagues within the homeless sector as
well as reaching out to break down public stereotypes of homelessness. More info follows and at www.willowwalker.org
The Willow Walker is embarking on a period of transition as a result of the Editor and sole employee being made redundant by English Churches Housing Group. However there is a real hope for an exciting future for the Willow Walker building upon the many offers of moral, practical and financial support that have been pouring in since this news was announced.
A celebratory autumn edition of the magazine has just been released and with the support of all the people who have donated online and offline the Willow Walker Calendar for 2010 is now printed and ready for sale! You can order your copy/copies online at www.willowwalker.org, proceeds from sales go to Cambridge Link-Up; a community group led by homeless people. Many many thanks to Tessa Youell, Eversheds the Kenneth Miller Trust and many others who have donated to the calendar appeal.
All the agencies working with homeless people in Cambridge will receive a free copy reminding them of the talent and potential of their clients month by month throughout the year. 250 free copies are also given to people living in the homeless hostels and nightshelters as well as those starting their path back into housed living and mainstream life. Every room I've visited always has a copy of the calendar on the wall, often it is the only picture people have in their hostel room or flat.
This Just Giving page will continue to receive donations for the Willow Walker - every little helps to secure its long term future.
Wintercomfort for the homeless are kindly receiving Just Giving Donations on the Willow Walker's behalf.
Thank You
Kirsten Lavers
Editor, Willow Walker
www.willowwalker.org
editor@willowwalker.org
The
Willow Walker encourages meaningful activity by homeless and ex-homeless people
by working with them closely on a broad range of articles, creative writing and
artworks.
2006
- 2009
10
quarterly issues of the Willow Walker & 3 Calendars of artwork and poetry
available to download from
www.willowwwalker.org
also
...
3
Concerts of Words and Music – for Homelessness and Leprosy Sunday’s 07 - 09.
2
major music concerts at the Guildhall, Cambridge and the Man on the Moon,
Cambridge
Double
CD of spoken word and music (in partnership with Cambridge Link-Up)
City
Centre exhibition of artwork : August – October 2009
Involving
intensive work with an average of 38 individuals per annum.
Homeless people's involvement with the Willow Walker has led directly to the formation
of Cambridge Link-Up in 2007. Cambridge Link-Up is a fully constituted homeless-led community group which is now raising funds and running its own projects with
support from the Editor.
www.cambridgelinkup.org.uk
The
Editor of the Willow Walker also raised funding for (and delivered) two
extended projects in partnership with 209radio 105fm in (Community Radio)
training and supporting a team of homeless people in the production and
broadcasting of a fortnightly live radio programme called
Homeless Truths. The most recent Homeless Truths funding
has just run out leaving a core team of enthusiastic homeless radio makers
eager to continue providing a voice for the homeless community of Cambridge.
They are currently embarking on a fundraising drive for core costs see
www.justgiving.com/homelesstruths and are working on Christmas special to be broadcast live from
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