World Mental Health Day Open Art Session

An exciting day of arts and crafts that will be on display in Middleton Grange Shopping Centre during Hartlepool's Beautiful Mind event!

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Come along for tea, coffee, tasty treats and fun arts activities. All to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support!

Olympic Event

Wow apologies for the lack of posting for the past few weeks. We've been busy bees over here at Choices for Life, making, packaging and branding all our exciting products in preparation for the Olympic event as well as running our broad program of activities and sessions.

We all had a loads of fun at the event, despite the terrible weather which meant we were stuck inside. From sports activities to tasty snacks, it was a great chance to meet people from other services as well as show off just how brilliant Choices for Life is!

The stall was a big hit and our products, especially the tie dye tote bags and bath bombs were really popular. The response about our future cafe and selling social enterprise was really encouraging and people from lots of other services were very eager to get involved in our future ventures. 

Here are just a few pictures of our gorgeous products on our lovely stall! More to come.

Making Group

On Monday our Art Group had a hugely successful afternoon creating pieces to be sold at the Olympics event. In two hours everybody produced a huge amount and had loads of fun trying out different techniques. This week we did some felt making and tie dying and the results were fantastic! Next week we'll continue with these making sessions, as well as adding bathbombs to the mix and then spend the week after we'll focus on packaging and finishing everything off to a high standard.

Olympic Event

Although the official Olympic celebrations ended last night everyone at Choices for Life is looking forward to attending Creative Support's Olympic event. It will celebrate the opening of the Paralympics later this month and will include loads of fun activities. Also we will be there with a stall selling wonderful crafts and artwork created by our Service Users so make sure to look out for us.

Hope to see you all there!

And to get you in the spirit here is one of the really wonderful adverts created as part of Channel 4's Meet the Superhumans advertising campaign for the London Paralympics 2012. How inspirational!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw

Seal Watch and Walk

A couple of our Service Users braved the British summertime weather to head over to Seal Sands in Hartlepool and watch the wildlife. This was a walk run by the Country Wardens and open to the public.  There was a lot of photo opportunities and a chance to socialise with other walkers and enthusiasts from outside our Service. Despite the sunshine not quite making a lasting appearance everyone had a great day out.

Felt Making

Our very talented Art Group took part in some felt making sessions last week with great success! The bright and colourful final pieces will look beautiful framed and are definitely works of art.