Who are Mindful Art Club?
Are they a business, a charity, a CIC or a community group?
And what are they going to do next?!
Mindful Art Club® is an unincorporated association. We have a small group constitution and a management committee. We recently held our annual general meeting to report on the organisation’s activities. The three trustees were present: Emma, Peggy and Clare, and the minutes were circulated to our regular volunteers, Lee and Linda.
First Emma reported on our funding bids. We were unsuccessful in two bids since the last general meeting. However we have been successful in bids with Comic Relief, Sparks Community Fund and have also received £250 from Plymouth Octopus Project. Emma is about to submit another bid to POP and a bid for Arts Council funding to run two groups.
Because of this funding Peggy reported that the following groups will begin after the current lockdown restrictions end.
- Sunflower Women’s Centre on Mondays, funded by Comic Relief.
- Zoom on Tuesdays funded by individual donations.
- Ivybridge Salvation Army to start after lockdown, funded by DRLC
- Emma to start a Friday group at The Clipper in Union Street, Plymouth funded by Sparks Community Fund.
- Various online courses to be funded by Devon Recovery Learning Community.
- Friday afternoons at Ocean Studios to be funded by Community Sparks Fund.
- Rees Centre, wellbeing course, Tuesday evenings funded by individuals.
Since our last meeting we have networked with a lot of different community organisations including Devon Mind, the Wolsley Trust social prescribers, Plymouth Argyle, Shekinah Mission, Devon Recovery Learning Community and The Clipper.
We have decided to invest in regular professional supervision meetings with a mindfulness teacher, retreat host and counsellor.
We have written a six week course, Doodle Your Recovery, and a three week course Zen Doodles for DRLC which will be run on Zoom.
We have joined the Loneliness Action Group with Labour councillor Kate Taylor, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care.
We have been featured in The Plymouth Chronicle twice and Emma has been on PTown Radio and Omnium Radio.
We celebrated one year in business with a dinner party, and made a video of it and sent thank you cards as a PR activity. We promoted our anniversary on our website and social media.
And finally, Emma and Peggy have both completed a five week business course called AWE Sofa Sessions with Dartington School of Social Entrepreneurs. Emma is now going to study the Nuts and Bolts of Business course with them.
To find out about when our next online courses and real life groups are launching join our mailing list now. As a thank you for joining, we’ll instantly send you a mindful colouring bundle with meditative art activities inside, to try at home.
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