Celebrating You!
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elebrating you is a space for you guys to tell us what you’ve been getting up to and to share anything you might be really proud of. We love getting stuff from you, so please send in your poems, stories, pictures, jokes or tell us about something you’ve done, your favourite hobby or a new pet, and we’ll include it in the next issue of SpeakOut. membership@whocaresscotland.org 40 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6HJ
Catching Up with Care Experienced Week We ran out of space in the Winter 21 issue of SpeakOut to share what you’d been up to for Care Experienced Week back in October, so we thought better late than never. Celebrations for Care Experienced Week were held across Scotland, here’s a sneak peek into some of the week’s activities!
Celebrations in Edinburgh
Our Edinburgh Communities that Care team held a celebration for local Care Experienced children, young people and their families to connect with each other, celebrate and have fun. Participants got involved with a silent disco, arts & crafts, a special FX workshop, food and more!
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Lanarkshire Showcase Over in Lanarkshire, 18 creative Care Experienced members took part in a public showcase of their art. This included baking, arts & crafts, and creative writing. One of the creatives in attendance, Amy, designed a doll’s house to help visualize what being Care Experienced can mean: “I decided to create a giant doll’s house, because it’s so easy to play with dolls in the same way it is to play about with a child or young person’s life. These dolls can be picked up and moved to the next room, and this is what inspired me to draw nine of the bedrooms that I’ve lived in – for me to highlight these major issues in today’s society, to create a better future for our children. Just imagine, if only I could superglue these dolls to the floor. Think about how much more resilient they would be – harder to knock over, and firmly placed within a single household. This is the future that we need to imagine for Care Experienced people. My hope is that if someone were to recreate my doll’s house in the future, there would be a lot less rooms.”
