Crafting Happiness
Volunteers design and produce craft-making kits, which are donated to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire for patients to use during their stay. We also work with charities such as Post Pal and design custom made cards for serioulsy ill children.
Volunteering Opportunities
Crafting happiness supports UHCW Charity in offering creative art packs for the Hospital’s Healing Arts Programme, distributed via Artie the art cart which visits wards daily in an effort to cheer up patients and offer free crafts and games. The arts have a key role in improving the wellbeing and health of patients and can help to speed up recovery. We also support charities such as Post Pal.
Sessions are held on campus and volunteers meet to design prototypes and make deconstructed crafts packs. Volunteers make a range of different craft packs including bookmarks, gift bags, jewellery and cards for many different occassions including birthdays Christmas and Easter.
Location
Volunteer sessions are held on campus.
How to get involved
Sign ups are now closed for the academic year 2018-19
Visit the Crafting Happiness Facebook Group
For more information about the Healing Arts charity please visit:
https://uhcwhealingarts.wordpress.com/art-cart/
For more information on how we design cards for children please visit:
http://www.postpals.co.uk/
Time Commitment
Volunteering is flexible as you can attend as many sessions as you want and join at any time during the year. Sessions last for approximately two hours on a Thursday eveining of term time.
Requirements
No previous experience is required. Enthusiasm and joy to give back to the community is all we need.
Why get involved?
Crafting happiness is a great way to de-stress, do something good and have fun whilst making new friends. More than that a great addition to the CV.
Read Jinghann's blog about her experience with Crafting Happiness
Read Soumya's blog about volunteering with Crafting Happiness