Spring has sprung, and so has our new monthly theme! April is all about ‘Get on Growing’, encouraging you to get into your green spaces, grow your own and learn different ways to grow beautiful flowers and delicious fruit and veg. Whether you’re a keen gardener, or exploring it for…
To mark the beginning of spring and the start of planting season, we want to invite you to Get on Growing! Tying into April’s theme of growing your own and getting a head start on your garden, we are launching a sunflower competition to bring the sunshine into your green…
It is with immense pride that as of the 1st April 2023, our dedicated team of 4 community workers and volunteers at Creative Football leave Creative Support after 20 years! It has been truly fantastic to see the team's development from a small intervention in Blackburn to its wider influence…
This week marks World Autism Acceptance Week, an opportunity for people to come together and support and celebrate our autistic family members, friends, and colleagues. This year’s theme is all about colour, and celebrating the beauty of every part of the spectrum. Autism is classed as a ‘spectrum’ disorder, meaning…
Supporting lower-income families, care-leavers, and the children’s social care system is crucial to ensuring a good and fair quality of life for all. Unfortunately, people who fall under these umbrellas have faced constant cuts to their funding, and the impact is hard to understate. Since 2010-2020, Government funding to councils…
We’re so excited to announce one of our biggest competitions yet. As part of ‘Love Your Library’ month, we want to give our staff the opportunity to share their stories and write from the heart. All you have to do is put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) and…
We are so proud to announce that Aliphina, one of our incredible Support Workers in Leeds, had won this year’s Leeds Quality in Care Awards in the Paid Care or Support Worker of the Year category! She beat off some stiff competition, going up against 45 other nominees, but the…
This March it’s Love Your Library Month, where we’ll be sharing all the wonderful ways libraries help our community! You can read our article on getting your own library card here, which gives you access to all the wonderful things your local library has to offer. Having a library card…
On the 7th March, we had an Open Mic Night at Creative Together to celebrate International Women's Day. We would like to thank every single person who joined on the night, who were supportive of the theme and welcoming people who visited for the first time. We had three poems…
We are proud to announce that Creative Support has been re-awarded an 'Investing in Volunteers' accreditation thanks to the incredible efforts of our wonderful volunteers, supportive colleagues, and Social Value Team. During the pandemic we sadly had to put our volunteering programme on hold, but since we have come…
