by Sara Lucassen | Nov 2, 2022 | News, review
The Value of Work The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, i.e. the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are...
by Sara Lucassen | Nov 2, 2022 | News
James Wins a Human Rights Award We were thrilled to learn that James Harris has won the Shared Lives Plus human rights award for free expression. Each year it is given to a person supported by a Shared Lives carer for speaking their mind, growing in confidence, and...
by Sara Lucassen | Aug 17, 2022 | News, review
Art Exhibition In June, a group of EVCC artists exhibited their paintings in a small community gallery in a Middlesbrough shopping centre. It’s a modest place and yet the two people who run it, Adrian and Miranda, have worked miracles with it. It’s such an...
by Sara Lucassen | Mar 10, 2022 | News
New garden season With the echoes of Candlemas, and perhaps Imbolc for some of us, we make our ways into the nourishing realm of spring. The snowdrops are living up to their name and painting the soil with green and white, and the daffodils are poking their heads up,...
by Sara Lucassen | Dec 23, 2021 | News, review
Advent Fair, and The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future If 2021 has been about trying to adapt to the New Normal in a pandemic world, for our community the question has been about how to retain a healthy social life while we navigate through the changes. Too...
by Sara Lucassen | Oct 28, 2021 | Fundraising, News
Breaking Bread Update The long awaited second oven has arrived at Breaking Bread Community Barkery, and not a moment too soon! Along with orders from EVCC and regular customers in the wider community, the joint enterprise with our partners at Common Cause has a...
