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Stitching, crafting, making good shit with good people 🫶
Knitting #blanketsfortheworld for people experiencing houselessness 🧶
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🌟 New and improved: let’s work together! 🌟

We frequently get asked how we work with organisations and individuals. These slides should answer all your frequently asked question, including the most important one: we DO NOT work for free ❤️

All our facilitators are paid according to @artistsunionengland rates as we value artistic and craft work. As a not-for-profit we mainly function through grant funding, donations, collaborations and commissions. We believe in the power of collaboration and invite like-minded organisations and individuals to join forces with us: whether through sponsorships or commissions, we can create meaningful projects that align with our shared values and amplify our social impact 🌎

We welcome inquiries and collaborations, so please reach out to us directly via email at info@craftforward.com after reading our slides, and for the people at the back: please, don’t expect us to work for free! We don’t 🫶

Help us shape a world where creativity, inclusivity, and community thrive. Together, we can make a difference one craft workshop at a time 🧶

#craftforward #collaboration #socialimpact #community taken in London, United Kingdom by @craft_forward

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The most wonderful time of the year is BACK! All addresses will be updated next week: we can’t wait to make an even bigger impact this year ❤️🧶 by @craft_forward

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Here comes September, and is there a best time to reintroduce ourselves? 🫶

We’re Craft Forward: your local crafty not for profit! We run workshops, events, initiatives to get together and make ❤️

Hope you’ll join us for another year of madness and yarn 🧶

#craftforward #knitting #crochet #crafts #community #blanketsfortheworld taken in London, United Kingdom by @craft_forward

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We are so excited to be back at the Big Cathedral Knit at the end of November, we hope to see you there! There are a few of tickets left, get them while they’re still there (via the link in our bio) 💖 by @craft_forward

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Unpacking blankets that have recently arrived featuring Elle’s very expressive face 💌🤪 Thank you to everyone who is getting involved this year- we couldn’t do it without you! by @craft_forward

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The Big Cathedral Knit at @southwark_cathedral is powered by a wonderful team of volunteers each year, and as the day is approaching we are doing a call out for anyone who is interested in volunteering on the day this year.

The event is on 28th November 10am-3pm, and any time that you are able to give is very appreciated! Please click the link in our bio to find the form to fill out if you are interested, we’d love for you to join the team and help us make it our biggest event yet! 💌🥰 by @craft_forward

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Elena is away getting ready for her wedding 💌🥰💖 so join Elle while she stacks squares ready for wonderful volunteers to pick them up and assemble 🧚‍♂️ by @craft_forward

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10 days ago

LAST BLANKETS FOR LONDON WORKSHOP BEFORE OUR COLLECTION DEADLINE 🚨🚨

Our last Brixton workshop! Come make squares and assemble Blankets for London 2026 🫶

If you’d like to help us assemble blankets, please get in touch with us right now: EMAIL ONLY ✉️ taken in London, United Kingdom by @craft_forward

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE RALLY OUTSIDE CITY HALL (E16 1ZE) TODAY AT 12PM! 🚨🚨🚨

'International House is unique because of the community it brings together. Together, we achieve far greater impact than any organisation could alone. The loss of International House would not simply mean relocating organisations. It would dismantle years of collaboration, remove genuinely affordable workspace from Brixton and the future of many community services at risk.
The value of International House cannot be measured simply by the organisations it houses, but by the thousands of Lambeth residents whose lives are improved because those organisations are able to work together from one affordable community hub' - Richie from @grooveschool

Today is the last day that we can try and influence the fate of International House. If @Sadiq approves the redevelopment, we risk losing hundreds of community organisations, and hundreds of community members who have been working hard to support us over the past 9 years. The impact that this would have on our communities is too devastating to quantify.

If you can't come to the rally, please leave a comment on the GLA application by 12pm letting them know why International House and POP Brixton matter to you. Link & guide in bio.

#gla #saveinternationalhouse
#popbrixton #Gentrification #london by @craft_forward

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🚨Brixton's communities are under threat!🚨

For almost 10 years, 3Space International House has been serving our communities when we have needed it the most. Food poverty, a lack of third & youth spaces and youth unemployment are just a few of the things that International House's 141 charities have been tackling.

@londonsquaredevelopments & @lambeth_council want to evict our community and refurbish the building into primarily luxury housing.

A lot of the charities working there have annual revenues below 10k. Eviction from free/peppercorn leases would be the end of their services. Once they are gone, they are gone. The last thing we need is luxury housing to replace them.

@sadiq will decide the fate of International House & its hundreds of tenants tomorrow.

Join our rally tomorrow to let him know that we are tired of community services being ripped from us whilst we continue to struggle.

🗓 Monday (TOMORROW) 5 October, 12PM

📍Outside City Hall, Kamala Chunchi Way, E16 1ZE

If you can't make it, please leave a comment on the GLA's planning application! More info on how to do that in our bio.

#Gentrification #eastlondon #gla #saveinternationalhouse #Brixton by @craft_forward

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Christmas Big Cathedral Knit is back 😍 get a free ticket at the link in our bio, we can’t wait to see you there ❤️

Volunteers opportunities coming soon!! taken in Southwark Cathedral by @craft_forward

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At our latest Big Cathedral Knit, an amazing blanket was donated to us. Not only was it soft and warm, it also featured SNOOPY! And if you know us, we loveee Peanuts 💖 thank you so much to the wonderful participant who made this blanket, it was so beautiful we had to share! 🍁💌🎃 by @craft_forward

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