This year we worked with Kirk Hallam Academy and Redhill Primary in Ockbrook, to create the WTF Well Dressings, this was on the theme of the Baton of Hope tour which takes place in September around Derby.
It was a very hot week and the well dressings were difficult to keep damp but we got there in the end and they made a great display at the West Hallam Village Fair in July.
Kindly funded by Erewash Small Grants Scheme and Joanna from Why Talking Fixes.
We partnered with the charity 'Why Talking Fixes' to create a well dressing for the West Hallam Well Dressing Trail. The charity help young people to recognise suicidal thoughts and where to go for help. We worked with 3 secondary schools - Kirk Hallam, St John Houghton and Ormiston Academy, to make the well dressing while talking about how to combat feeling down, feeling like their is no hope and to talk to someone we trust, friends, teachers, family.
We took photos of the well dressing at the event and created postcards with support information on the reverse, these will be placed in care bags which are given out to young people by the charity.
The project was funded by Erewash Small Grant Scheme.
