2022 has been a big year for us; we’ve grown from a start-up to an established social business working in more spaces with even more people.
So, we thought we’d share with you our 2022 round-up…
We created 1440 free places for families to read, play games and make crafts at our weekly Story Box sessions across three community venues.
We hosted 5 Reading Folk Book Clubs for parents.
We created an International Women’s Day screen display at the Museum of Liverpool with Skywriters Ltd.
We organised six community clean-ups of Thirlmere Park working with GoodGym Liverpool and planted a wildflower meadow with children from All Saints Primary School and Scouse Flowerhouse.
Our 2022 Book Club read Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends; The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper, Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett and No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.
In the Spring, we brought our creative pop-up to 14 community spaces over the Easter break and Whit half-term. We read, played games and made lots of spring crafts!
In June, we launched Writing for the Soul, with Square Pegs exploring memoir writing with seven wonderful writers.
We had our busiest summer this year; we visited over 20 organisations bringing lots of stories, games and crafts with us. As well as hosting our Summer Story Box sessions for children under 11 and their grown-ups!
We had a Spooktacular October half-term, bringing The Story Box at Hallowe’en to libraries, youth clubs and community centres across the city.
At the end of November, we hosted a placard-making workshop with GFS England & Wales. 60 girls spent the afternoon talking about the issues they cared about and then made their own powerful posters.
To end the year we hosted 10 magical Story Box at Christmas events as well as Christmas Party for Babies under-1 and gifted over 100 books to celebrate the season; with the help of the amazing FACTCO.
If you would like to support our work in 2023, you can donate here.
