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Radical Gifting: Wellbeing Boxes 2024
Radical Gifting is a collaboration between People United, artists, people experiencing social isolation and the organisations and individuals who support them.
Weaving a web of care through intimate creative sessions, making, giving and receiving, Radical Gifting fosters wellbeing and generates meaningful connections by reconnecting people to coastal ecosystems in East Kent and beyond.
Weaving a web of care through intimate creative sessions, making, giving and receiving, Radical Gifting fosters wellbeing and generates meaningful connections by reconnecting people to coastal ecosystems in East Kent and beyond.
The second phase of Radical Gifting launched in May 2024 with artists Lo Lo No, Elly Rutherford, and Sadie Hennessy. These artist designed sensory objects, in collaboration with community participants, to be gifted onwards as a way to bring the coast to those who can’t access it.
Their creations were placed into twenty wellbeing boxes and distributed to socially isolated individuals across East Kent via our charity partners; the Kent Community Wardens Service (Positive Wellbeing Service), Porchlight, Canterbury Umbrella Centre, sheltered housing venues, and Age UK Swale.
Check out the zine from the project below:
Radical Gift Box Delivery with Muriel and Community Producer Mandy
