Worcestershire LitFest Fringe
Grow Your Dough Writing Workshops
Fundraising for St Richard's Hospice Foundation
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We are taking part the St Richard's Hospice, £40 challenge - Grow Your Dough!
Together with the other teams taking part, we are hoping to help St Richard's raise £40,000 in their 40th year of providing hospice care!
Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe are holding virtual by-donation workshops & events on Zoom every Monday (7 - 8pm GMT) from October to mid-December, to raise funds for St. Richard's 'Grow Your Dough' challenge.
Nina Lewis is a Director of WLFF and a poet, she has 10 years experience facilitating workshops and knows first-hand St Richard’s Hospice and the wonderful care given. Her Grandma, Betty Parry, was a patient and her Grandpa, Bert Parry, received support from the specialist Community Nursing Team at home.
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Our December Workshops & Events
OUR NEXT EVENT:
BY-DONATION:
Fri 20th Dec 7-8pm GMT ~Zoom~
Shared Reading for Workshop Participants
& a Mini Nature Workshop
Our FINAL event in the GYD series.
For a £2+ donation you can join us to listen to workshop poetry and writing. The second part of the hour will be a writing prompt based on Nature & a virtual Snow-walk.
Open to any level of writer.
More details below & on our website: https://litfestworcs.org/events
HOW TO JOIN A WORKSHOP:
Donate & Email
1) Donate here.
2) Email us at bookingsworcslit@gmail.com stating which workshop/event(s) you are coming to.
We will send the link on the day.
ALL Bursary spaces have been allocated for Nov/Dec.
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We appreciate all your donations for October and November.
Since the campaign was extended we have spent time creating additional events to increase our fundraising total.
It costs the hospice over £12 million a year to provide free care and support to thousands of people across Worcestershire, so every penny is crucial.
To join a December workshop, please make a new donation.
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If you are not interested in attending any event or workshops, we'd still love your support ~ leave a donation and share this page.
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WORKSHOP INFORMATION:
Open to any level and those who do not consider themselves writers.
Bring a notebook, something to write with and a drink.
We don't share our work during the hour but participants in the workshops are invited to read on the 20th December.
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----DECEMBER EVENTS & WORKSHOPS----
BY-DONATION:
Our Final GYD Event of the series.
FRI 20th Dec 7-8pm GMT ~Zoom~ Shared reading for workshop participants.
FREE to workshop participants.
DONATE if you want to come and listen and join us for our final writing prompt.
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THE STORY SO FAR
We had a collection and the GYD raffle at our LIVE WMHD SpeakEasy at Boston Tea Party, Worcester on the 10th Oct.
Thank you to you all for your generous donations.
We added £60.00 to the total.
PAST WORKSHOPS -
7th - Buds & Flowers
(Writing for Grief and Loss)
This workshop is the most intense of the series as it deals deeply with our experience and feelings. Please be gentle with yourselves.
Using poems and photography to explore our experience through a series of prompts.
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14th - Writing with Nature
Brings nature to the screen. Nature brings us a sense of calm, peace of mind, validates emotions and raises our spirits. A generative writing workshop which includes multiple prompts.
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21st - Writing for Wellbeing
Using poetry, journaling and a mindful/journal activity to help our mental and physical wellbeing.
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28th - Mindfulness (Guided activities)
Utilising Guided Activities, this workshop is centred around the sensory writing experience. We finish with a guided relaxation/ Heart Breath exercise.
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Then news came from the Hospice, they extended this campaign to last until the end of 2024.
We created 6 NEW events which take us to mid-December.
After that, we welcome public donations for the final couple of weeks of the year to see us through to the end of the GYD campaign.
NOVEMBER
4th - Listen & Write
Workshop participants from October shared their writing in a community reading, followed by a writing prompt taking inspiration from a poem by Rumi.
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11th - City Write (Hidden Stories)
Discover parts of Worcester you never knew, prompts, photography, plans and a sprinkling of History.
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We have created 1 new workshop and a sharing event to round off December. After 20th December the page will remain open for DONATIONS.
If you are interested in future workshops join our mailing list for event listings.
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18th Birds (of Paradise) Workshop
Escape into a wonderful world of birds. Using film, photography and facts, explore nature in your writing.
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25th OPEN, Open Mic Night
November workshop participants to share their writing (+ open mic)
and a nature writing prompt.
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DECEMBER
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2nd Seasonal Writing Workshop
A fun and creative workshop to get you in the mood. We'll use a series of short writing prompts, followed by 2 longer writes.
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9th Seasonal Writing Workshop
More Christmassy! We'll use a series of short writing prompts, followed by a longer write to create alternative Christmas poems.
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16th Winter Landscapes
with Guest Writer ~ Bramwell Griffiths
Our FINAL workshop in the GYD series.
A festive introduction to capturing winter landscapes in poetic verse from the comforts of your own home. We'll look at contemporary poetry and discuss simple techniques leading us to create our own exciting collaborative verse.
For more information check our FB page or email bookingsworcslit@gmail.com
If the hospice can raise £40,000 in St Richard's 40th year it will allow them to fund two months of specialist care provided to patients in the In-patient Unit.
With your support of our fundraising, they can continue to provide free care so that St Richard’s can always be there for those who need them.
Please help St Richard's Hospice continue to offer free care by raising funds.
Please help us continue to care in uncertain times, supporting more than 1,220 patients, loved ones, carers and the bereaved every day.
We care for adults with illnesses which cannot be cured who have complex needs which cannot be met by other services. These include cancer and neurological, respiratory, cardiac and renal conditions.
We aim to improve patients’ quality of life, helping them to live as fully as they can to the end of their lives, however long that may be. We work with other health-care partners to prevent crisis intervention and hospital admissions where possible.
On 1 May 1984 we accepted our first patient and our service to our communities in Worcestershire has continued unbroken since. Since then St Richard’s has received more than 73,000 referrals for people to access its service for patients, their loved ones, carers and bereaved people.
'With your fundraising and dedicated support, we can continue to provide free care so that St Richard’s can always be here for those who need us.'
