Creating Ground has been running My Creative Skills workshops since September 2016 and thanks to Near Neighbours and University of Greenwich we have been able to continue. 

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These participant-led workshops unite women from migrant backgrounds to develop their leadership skills and share their creative strengths and unique ideas. 

We are continuing to run these sessions online.

Creating Ground partnered with Citizens UK, supported by Near Neighbours & Church Urban Fund, on a programme to strengthen leadership and inspire community action.

We continue to explore issues that are affecting many more people and communities like ours in our online sessions. We look forward to sharing with the world the work we produce at the end of this project.

Starting from September, we will run a free 96-hour English course within the programme “English My Way”. The course is addressed to migrant women with no or low level of English who have been living in the UK for at least one year.​

If you need any further information or if you would like to attend the course, please email us at info@theground.org.uk. 

We just finished our course on Diversity, Cultural Awareness and Inclusion:  working cross-culturally. We had a great group from Turkey. We have seen how to be ourselves and what it means to overcome language and cultural differences to enable dialogue, understanding and inclusion. 

Even this year we have celebrated the Refugee Week with lots of events.

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The first one was made in collaboration with the Woolwich Common Community Centre and the visitors of the Greenwich Migrant Hub. Visitors made a wonderful tree as part of My Creative Skills sessions funded by Near Neighbours Church Urban Fund.

We finished our one week course of Teaching through drama. Wonderful feedback from the participants about the importance of  learning and practising different drama techniques to use in their classroom. 

We finished our one week course on Diversity, Cultural Awareness and Inclusion. Wonderful feedback from the participants about the importance of being aware of our own culture, of thinking positively about actions of change to implement in our own practices and about how an emphatic, honest, respectful and non judgemental approach can open doors to the encounter with those who we consider "the other". Recognising, valuing, validating and appreciating differences whilst acting on commonalities.

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Creating Ground have established a regular music event called A Night of Music at the Old Library in collaboration with Theatre Delicatessen.

A Night of Music at the Old Library aims to bring all different members of the community together to meet and dance together, and to showcase music from different genres and cultures in an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere.

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The first Night of Music Event took place on 25th November 2017.

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Photo by Malachy Luckie / Theatre Deli

An intensive one week course on learning and practicing Mindful Communication for work and personal life attended by teachers from different EU countries.

Another successful KA1 professional training course for teachers from Spain, Portugal and UK.

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On 21st March we also run an half-a day session for ESOL teachers from the UK

A new series of creative workshops for the visitors of the Greenwich Migrant Hub.

Sessions start on 20th November and take place every Monday from 11am to 1pm for 12 weeks. The sessions are funded by Swan Mountain Trust.

The project is called Mapping, assessing and validating competences of youth educators working with young migrants and refugees (VAL). It is part of the KA2 - Strategic partnership for youth funded by the Erasmus + Programme. The project aim is to map the competence profile of youth educators working with young migrants and refugees, and develop a methodology for assessment of their competences called expertise check-up, a E-course course for assessors, a European certification and a register for assessors and youth educators.

Partners in the project: Coordinator: Folkuniverisitetet Kristianstad Sweden;

VHS Cham e.V. – Germany; IDEC – Greece; Correa – France; Creating Ground CIC – UK

This course looks at how teachers can use drama as a tool to engage, motivate and support students. We will look at why drama can be used in teaching and we will learn different drama techniques to use in classroom. The course will be very participatory and practical. The participants will do drama games and warm-up activities, watch videos, experience the techniques and plan and teach their own lessons.

One-week course (9.30-1.30pm):

12-17 February 2018

£350 (concession fees available)

One-day workshop (10.30 – 4.30pm):

Saturday: 27 January; 24 February

£90

Half-day workshop (9.30-1.30pm):

7 February; 7 March

£50

An art workshop for the visitors of the Greenwich Migrant Hub as part of the Refugee Week celebration.

Thanks to a small grant from Edith M Ellis Trust, Creating Ground has run the first series of My Creative Skills workshops in their new office at the Greenwich West. The sessions saw the participants engage in different drama games, craft and art work whilst also talking and focusing on important information on their life in the UK.

• Would you like to learn how to write a short drama?

• Are you interested in finding a creative way to talk about migration, identity, culture and social inclusion?

Join this 4-day Intensive Drama Writing course run by Francis Rolt, Founder and Director of Radio for Peace Building.

You will learn:

• the basic ingredients of a radio drama

• How to address different issues

• How to develop a story and its characters

If you want to learn English and improve your vocabulary, join our two English classes on Tuesdays starting on 18th April:

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- English for Beginners 10am-12pm

- Conversational English for Intermediate and above 1pm - 3pm

Iyengar Yoga emphasises correct alignment and uses props to make yoga accessible to all, regardless how flexible or inflexible you are. You can learn healthy alignment while practicing yoga poses and develop strength, stamina and flexibility.

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If you are interested, join this 6-week course on Wednesday evenings from 22nd February from 6pm to 7.30pm.

This is a project devised for the parents of the children attending the Rainbow Club, AFRIL Saturday Supplementary School. It runs on 6 Saturdays between January and March to support AFRIL parents find a space where to express themselves, expand their network and become more confident in their skills through a creative process.

A FREE Spanish taster session and if you like it, you can then join a very interactive and fun Language and Cultural Spanish course in Greenwich.

This is an 8-week project devised for the Greenwich Migrant Hub visitors. It run once a week from 12th October to support migrant women become more confident in their skills as new Londoners and mothers in the UK through a creative process.

A very interactive and practical 4 hour session for four groups of teachers from different countries participating in an Erasmus Plus - KA1 project. Sessions took place on 27th July, 5th October, 6th December 2016 and 16th February 2017.

Creating Ground worked with the Accademia Europea di Firenze (www.aefonline.eu) on the Erasmus Plus Mobitec 2 project hosting 13 students and a teacher from the Secondary School "Sismondi - Pacinotti" for 32 days in June 2016.

A 4 hour workshop for a group of charity workers from Turkey on the charity sector in the UK and how to run a not profit organization as part of an Erasmus Plus KA1 project.

A very interactive and practical 4 hour session for a group of 8 teachers from different EU countries who are participating in an Erasmus Plus - KA1 project.