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Posts with tag: Halesworth

Listening to each other and understanding and working towards peace Blog posts

Taking some Extra Time to volunteer

We took along the Extra Time football banner and story boxes to a volunteer event in Halesworth, to explore how it might be used by support staff and carers in the community.

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Suffolk Artlink Project Officer Gabrielle and a resident from Manor Farm Care Home reminisce about Suffolk Artlink’s football heritage. News

Good news, but lots still to do.

Suffolk Artlink’s funding news

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Extra Time and the Olympic Torch

When we learnt that Beech House is organising a procession through Halesworth to mark the Olympic Games, we were only too happy to help them make a torch for the event.

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A group of school children stand behind a tower (podium) of cardboard boxes on which stand a variety of cardboard trophies Blog posts

A Triumph of Trophies

The penultimate session, and Beech House residents and the team from Edgar Sewter primary school get together to finish off the trophies and find out what people have enjoyed about taking part in Extra Time.

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Hacksaws and toilet rolls

The residents at Beech House spent a happy morning cutting up cardboard tubes and fashioning a series of trophies, after which the children spent the afternoon decorating them with art work created over the last ten weeks.

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What’s Heritage?

Whilst the Beech House Bakers blow bubbles and create gold medals, the children return to Halesworth and District Museum, to explore their heritage a little further.

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How to kick, volley and swerve … and make poetry

With the children on half term holiday this week, Dean, Candida and Amanda visit Beech House with the Extra Time Kit Bag, for a bit of a poetic chat.

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Everyone’s a Winner

The children visit the Beech House Bakers at home, where they pair up to create unique origami Trophy Booklets, inspired and prompted by poet and part-time chanteur, Dean Parkin.

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