Follow up from Ward meeting

So, since the ward meeting on the 21st (our table at the meeting above) we have been following up on some of the contacts we made. In particular the Police community support officers in attendance were really friendly, and have been instrumental in forging links in the area. We are hoping that some workshops in local schools will result from our visit.
The workshops that we plan to do will involve a number of elements:
First will be a very hands-on workshop, where we hope to work with a local school to build a suggestion box. The suggestion box will be on a trolley, and of course, it isn't built yet, so we don't know exactly what it will look like; but we imagine it will be something like this:We also hope to link up with other groups to carry out other workshops where we will work with our hands, making wire sculptures, printing with our hands and using scanners and photography to capture our hands; we will be exploring how expressive hands can be; and how we use our hands to communicate. We will look at hand gestures, and sign language.
Within these workshops we will be gathering images of the hands belonging to the communities of Lozells and East Handsworth because Hands show our histories/our lives.
At the same time we will be asking people to tell us about the area, and what their hopes and dreams are for Lozells and East Handsworth and the communities that live there. We will be asking them which parts of the area we should visit to get a good idea about what the place is really like. This will help us to create a route map, which we will use later on out tour...
We will give them this postcard, and ask them to answer the question on the back (below):
They will then post their thoughts into the suggestion box.
Over the weekend of April 25th and 26th we will be going on the big Tour. Using the route map generated during the workshops, we will take our suggestion box onto the streets of Lozells and East Handsworth stopping people on the way to gather their thoughts and hands.

Anyone who may like to get involved, or knows a community group that would like us to come in and do a workshop with them, please do get in touch.