SUNDIAL CENTRE
6th March 2019 - Dail Francois receptionist at the centre
I just wanted to chat to someone about an overview of the centre?
I think the best person would be - if you’re looking at an overview rather than individual projects - would be Sally. Her email is sally.codling@peabody.org.uk
Yesterday I met with her and we were talking about room hire - so for an overall view of the centre it would be best to chat to Sally. For the individual projects would be Natasha but I know all about the room hire. Say to her you spoke to me regarding the room hire
So this page is for the Sundial centre for whatever you guys want to include…
Just email and say that you spoke to me and that you’ve got a page for us. Brilliant. Thankyou.That would be really helpful - because from my point of view, the communities can use the rooms. I mean it’s not… Lets be honest it is a financial thing - at the end of the day - the prices we hire for are so cheap.. £25. Those could be used for art classes, all those things - yoga is very popular here on a Monday.
This will be printed as a newspaper and I’ll give some back to you, but also Peabody will get to see this work I’m doing too.
Thats what I was saying to Sally - that would be amazing! If this could get out to colleges, all around and everything it can be used. I always say word of mouth is the best thing. Nothing beats it does it. I’m so glad I saw you!
Natasha Middleton - Outreach Co-Ordinator for Peabody Sundial Centre
Email Correspondence - 7th March 2019
Could you put in a bit about how I aim for inclusion and encourage people to attend from other backgrounds and with disabilities . You could say that the Partnership I have built up with ELATT enables Bengali women to meet others at the centre through activities and also we are hoping to start some conversation groups. I also try to encourage older frail men to attend as they are overrepresented in the loneliness statistics.
Thanks!
What does community mean to you? And what do you think the importance of community is?
Natasha Middleton - natasha.middleton@peabody.org.uk
What does community mean to you?
To me, community means having a support network that you can call on when you need to and who are also people you can meet with and socialise with. Community means friendship. The importance of community is that is provides an essential cushioning against the difficulties of life. Community means having people to turn to for help and to laugh with. Community is the way to stop loneliness and isolation in the city.
Dail Francois - dail.francois@peabody.org.uk
What does community mean to you?
In these times this question seems so hard to answer – A sense of belonging.
And what do you think the importance of community is?
Support
Jeffrey Parkinson - parkinsonjeffrey18@gmail.com
What does community mean to you?
“Community means trust and that is important to build togetherness. Without this essential ingredient, as with plants nothing can grow without oxygen. When we look around the planet everything is a formulation of communities; birds nesting, termites building mounds, bees creating hives and humans living together. All animals form varying degrees of community.
People can and do rebuild communities investing their time through skills and money to nurture growth through the love and desire to re-establish a new community. Each of us has a personal duty to ask ourselves how can we be part of a community that we feel we belong to? and what can we give to build it? Each of us will have a different answer according to our views and experience. When we see this as an important duty, then collectively working together we can build trust towards a common purpose and ideal - each contributing one segment of a part of the circle. An orange for example cannot hold together without its component parts each area being dependant upon the next for support in order for its integrity to hold together.
In our western industrialised civilisation, a very high prevalence of mental and physical ill health exists compared with indigenous communities. One aspect of this dissonance is that human communities have become fragmented as economic monetary gain being a fundamental priority has far exceeded in importance the essential human ingredient of love. It is fully understood that the Industrial revolution which began in England began to fragment communities from the very beginning. Areas with cities of concentrated production drew in people required to facilitate that production. This pattern continues today with vast movements of people gravitating to concentrated centres of high wealth which is a product of production. Many areas around the world are left devastated and culturally destroyed as a result of this. As a species this seems to be a feature of humanity itself.”
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