We’re hiring!

30Aug

Please note- this job advert has now closed. We are heading into an exciting phase of development here at People United and we are looking for some additional help to move forward into our next chapter. We have an exciting opportunity for an organised individual to join our team; to help with the day-to-day running of […]

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Exploring Kindness | Arts Awards Explore: Case Study Part 2

15Jul

Exploring Kindness: Part 2  Following on from our Project Coordinator’s previous blog, Becky shares the activities which Newington’s youth group Chill Club did to achieve their Arts Award Explore and try out a new Arts & Kindness theme. Part C – Create Make a piece of artwork and record the process Two young people at Chill […]

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Exploring Kindness | Arts Awards Explore: Case Study Part 1

12Jul

Exploring Kindness : Part 1 Working with Chill Club in Newington, Ramsgate our Project Coordinator, Becky Vincer, led a series of workshops to support young people to achieve their Arts Award Discover. At the end of the project some of the young people were keen to keep working and so the Arts Award Explore Kindness […]

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Discovering Kindness | Arts Award Discover: Case Study Part 2

12Jul

Discover Part B & C | Arts Award Case Study Following on from the previous blog, our Project Coordinator Becky shares the ways in which the youth group ‘Chill Club’ achieved their Discover Arts Awards. In this post she focuses on Part B and C. Part B: Find Out Find out about at least one […]

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Scouting for Kindness in Canterbury

01Jul

Scouting for Kindness in Canterbury People United have been working with three Scouting groups from the Canterbury district to explore ideas for a new Arts & Kindness badge. In 2013 we created a Kindness Challenge Badge for Girlguiding with two Brownie and Guide groups, since then it has always been an ambition of ours to explore the […]

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Movement, Movements and Happy Memories at Tate Exchange

06Jun

Stacie, our Digital and Communications Coordinator, reflects on her time at Tate Exchange which took place from 29 – 31 May 2019. The theme of this year’s Tate Exchange at Tate Modern was Movement. As soon as I arrived at the stairwell that leads you to the 5th floor of the Blavatnik building, my ears […]

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Discovering Kindness – The learning | Arts Award Case Study

02May

Following on from our Discovering Arts Award blog our Project Coordinator Becky shares the ways in which the youth group ‘Chill Club’ explored and achieved their award through 20 hours of arts participation, learning and reflection. In this post she focuses on researching artists or craftspeople – focusing on pro-sociality – and how the group shared their […]

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Kindness Column: Decluttering our way to happiness

02May

Twelve years since People United’s beginnings and several years since moving into our office and it’s safe to say, we have accumulated a lot of ‘stuff’ along the way. Since our inception we’ve collected countless cupboards worth of paperwork, postcards, photographs, fan letters (really!), files and keepsakes, but with office space at a premium, we knew […]

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Kindness Column: Social Media and the Kindness of Mermaids

03Apr

Our Operations Manager, Charlotte, shares her story of how a stranger helped her overcome her fears and get back to nature in her column ‘Social Media and the Kindness of Mermaids.’ Yes this tail does include a real life mermaid!  Social media. It sometimes feels like we can’t move these days for hearing about it. Yet […]

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Discovering Kindness | Arts Awards Discover: Case Study Part 1

03Apr

Our Project Coordinator Becky shares her experiences of working with a youth group to achieve their Discover Arts Awards with a kindness theme. Newington’s Chill Club is a hub of activity. Every Monday night the young people who attend are encouraged to take lead on the kind of activities on offer. The group meet in […]

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