High Peak Community Arts

Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak

Help fund creativity in nurseries!

We need your help through crowdfunder…

For the Love of Books is our much loved early years project, working with nurseries in Gamesley (Glossop), Ollersett (New Mills) and Fairfield (Buxton) and we need help to reach our target match funding. When we hit the target The Ragdoll Foundation will release £30,000 for us to run the project for two years.

PLEASE SUPPORT US IF YOU CAN!

We have recently launched an exciting, new Crowdfunding campaign. It aims to raise funds for HPCA’s ‘For The Love of Books’ programme, which works with children and their parents/carers, and staff, at three nurseries in the High Peak. These nurseries are located in Fairfield, Gamesley and Ollersett.

The project involves professional artists working with the nurseries using books and the arts to inspire a variety of fun, engaging, hands-on learning sessions for families. These will include CPD(training) for early years staff, so that creative techniques can become part of their everyday practice. The project will ignite the imagination, developing a love of books, increased literacy levels in the under 5s and even stronger familial bonds as parents learn with their children.

The Ragdoll Foundation have agreed to fund some of this project, on condition we raise £5,000 from other sources. That’s where our
Crowdfunding campaign comes in! We have a commitment of £1666 from local county council funds and other applications pending, but we need a minimum of £1,200 more to be able to run any of this programme at all.

Crowdfunding is all about engaging people to raise money via them making ‘pledges’ to help fund work. People are offered ‘rewards’ in return for their donations.

Our rewards range from HPCA key rings to poetry books, trips to artists studios and potted ornamental trees. A range of artists have
been very generous in their support of this fundraiser.kids reading lying in a circle

The nature of Crowdfunding is that it is quick. In our case, 8 weeks to be precise. We are aiming to raise £1200 from now until the end of August 2017. Time is ticking!

Please help us if you can! By sharing information about this campaign, donating yourselves, or encouraging others that you know have a
passion for our work, to do so.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

For the love of Books!

High Peak Community Arts are proud to present their first early years arts project, For the Love of Books.

The project aims to promote a joy of books with early years children and their families, who can sign up for sessions with professional artists.  The artists have been asked to choose their favourite children’s book and develop fun, creative and open ended activities that animate the book further. drawing robot

Our first sessions will be running at Gamesley Early Excellence Centre in October, where artist Tony Hall will be making drawing robots with the families. Artist Katy McCall, who has a background in early years learning, will be bringing a range of unusual materials for children to play and experiment with. The session will be based on the book “Robots, Robots Everywhere” by Sue Fliess.

kiddy artWe are thrilled to be planning this early years work, supported by Awards for All from the Big Lottery and also the Clore Duffield Poetry and Literature Awards. All of the sessions will be designed to enable families and children to develop confidence in their creativity and nurture a love of books through playful and enjoyable activities.

This programme of workshops will be rolled out in New Mills, Fairfield and Gamesley between October 2015 and July 2016. For more information call Sophie on 01663 744 516, or email Katy McCall on katymccall@mac.com.