EyPIC young carers have worked with Create for the past few years.
Create are the UK’s leading charity empowering lives, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing through the creative arts.
Take a look at some of the projects we have participated in, below.
Over February 2023 half-term, a group of our Young Carers attended a 3-day Drama workshop with Create.
We learnt money management skills through drama and game playing!
We looked at lots of different drama skills such as improvisation, building characters and telling stories, and used them to make short performances exploring the role money plays in our lives.
During the last week of July 2022, Create delivered a 3-day Change Matters music workshop for our Young Carers.
Our Young Carers explored both music and money!
They used music to help understand how money works, discovered the things money can do, and asked themselves how money makes them feel.
Listen to the music they produced.
Create ran a fabulous Visual Art workshop for us on Monday 23rd – Wednesday 25th August.
Chloe led us in a three-day visual art project exploring financial concepts through animation and other activities, including financial bingo!
We learnt about the difference between credit and debit cards, and created these very special animations!
Over the Easter Holidays, some of our Young Carers participated in a workshop to create a ‘World In A Box’ using recycled materials, led by Create. These boxes were created based on their memories, dreams, aspirations, and favourite things!
These two pieces of music were created by our Young Carers (in conjunction with Young Carers from Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource) in an online workshop over the Christmas holidays, led by Create.
change:matters has been designed to increase Young Carers’ confidence around managing money in the home.
The Young Carers did this by exploring the difference between a need and want; increasing their understanding of the different kinds of savings accounts and learning how to save money when shopping. By learning how to budget, the Young Carers were able to plan for the future and save for unexpected expenses, gaining an understanding of the different types of loans available should they need to borrow money and what to do if they ever get into trouble with debt.
These skills were gained through creative, interactive workshops lead by one of our professional artists. In the change:matters music workshops the Young Carers formed a band and wrote their own original songs based around the themes explored when learning about money. They worked together to write lyrics, come up with the melody and rhythm, play ‘instruments’ they find around the house and record these via Zoom. There was a sharing on the final day to which Young Carers could invite family and friends to be an audience for their finished songs.
In October 2020, a group of our Young Carers created their own zines in an online workshop delivered by Linden from Create.
Click to see the zines. One focuses on their hobbies, and the other is a ‘Museum of Us’.
For Young Carers Action Day 2021, Young Carers from EyPIC participated in a 3-day music workshop funded by Bloom and Wild through the Carers Trust.
Under the guidance of an inspirational professional musician from the award-winning charity Create, 14 Young Carers created 2 new pieces of music on the theme ‘Our Future’.
The ideas were drawn from the Young Carers and the pieces include voice, electronics, any instruments that the young people play and ‘found’ instruments (e.g. pan and lid / grater and pen!).
The theme, chosen by Young Carers and Young Adult Carers, was ‘Taking Action on Isolation’ and focused on securing action to help address the isolation they experience as young carers.
For Young Carers Action Day, a group of our young carers participated in an after-school online music workshop, led by Create, and funded by the Carers Trust and the Pears Foundation. They created a new piece of music around the theme ‘isolation’. The ideas were drawn from the young carers and the piece includes voice, electronics, any instruments that the young people played, and ‘found’ instruments (such as a pan and lid!)
Please listen to this incredible piece of music created by our talented young carers, who as they say, are UNSTOPPABLE!
Create led a fabulous photography workshop for us on Tuesday 3rd – Thursday 5th August 2021. Rachel led us in a three-day visual art project exploring experimental photography and image making to document the environment and surroundings at Enfield Town Park.
We collected natural materials to inspire and include in art making processes such as cyanotype photography, drawing and collage.
Our photos and visual artworks were compiled in a handmade artist book, and we enjoyed sharing our achievements with our families at the end of the workshop.
