In November 2018 we launched our new parent coffee mornings after successful funding from The National Lottery Community Fund Awards For All. Thank you for the support as we’ve been able to give parents a range of experiences including storytelling and jewellery making. Parents are putting some of their new skills into practice with leading
We had a great time over February half-term with a trip to the cinema, seeing Cirque Berserk at the Birmingham Rep and a play day at Calthorpe Wellbeing Hub. A particular highlight was seeing Chris Cooper’s The Silence–a new play for young people held a shortwalk from our base in The Gap’s Basement Theatre at
Fun, laughter, dancing, running and lots and lots of COLOUR! It didn’t matter how long it took, it just mattered how much fun everyone had. And that wasn’t the end of the fun as we then had passes to the theme park. “We as a family of six attended the colour run with the support of CATS project. On arrival, the whole atmosphere of the park was totally brilliant and lit up
The children and young people decided that they wanted to have large graffiti murial at the CATS base with words that make them think about CATS. Words they associated with us were: Happy, Fun, Family, Friends, Lol, Love…. Local artist Dan Burwood from Some Cities arranged for us to work with graffiti artist Martin AKA HOAKSER. Everyone was excited to hear from HOAKSER that in 2016 he worked on the set for Steven Spielberg’s science