Breathing Space
A health and wellbeing charity in Witton Gilbert, Durham. Providing friendly local activities including arts and crafts, forest school, men's shed, folk singing, wellness walks and more. Open to all, new people always very welcome. For details of our regular activities which do not require booking please see our website www.breathingspace.org.uk
Creative Writing with Peter Morris
Thursday 16 January 2025
A series of four relaxed, fun, weekly workshops with Peter Morris.
Learn about the fundamentals of song writing including lyric writing, formation of hooks and song structure.
Begins on 16th January 2025 10am-12noon
Then 23rd January, 30th January and 6th February. You need only book once for the whole course.
Suitable for beginners.
St Michael & All Angels Church
Breathing Space Sensing the Seasons Mindfulness Walk
Between Friday 31 January 2025 and Friday 28 March 2025
Breathing Space offer an opportunity to get away from it all for the morning!! The Sensing the Seasons walk combines the beauty of the environment around us with physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Mindfulness is a really useful tool to support the development of positive health and wellbeing. Use the mindfulness techniques to enable the participant to be aware of themselves in the present and to allow judgmental thoughts and negative emotions to flow through.
St Michael and All Angels Church
Valentines Metal Embossing with Carrie Dennison
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Metal embossed valentines ornament workshop
A fun introduction to the art of metal embossing, learning how to make traditional ‘corazones mexicanos’ – Mexican hearts or sacred hearts, based on the Mexican artform of ‘milagritos’. We’ll start on a practice piece and will go through the method of transferring the design to the metal, learning the techniques of metal embossing. Then we’ll move on to designing and creating a heart, learning a few extra techniques along the way. Finally we’ll learn how to add a finish to your heart to make it look aged and will then decorate to add plenty of colour.
Each student will leave the workshop with one finished heart.
Suitable for beginners.
St Michael & All Angels Church
Woodland Wonders Ages 3-5 Feb 25th AM
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Children’s forest activities led by Pat, a level 3 forest school qualified facilitator!
Explore the woodland and churchyard, discover local wildlife, hear stories around the campfire and play active outdoor games. Winter theme.
We will be outdoors weather permitting so please come dressed for it!
Suitable for ages 3-5, no dogs please.
If you have not completed an online registration form this year we MUST receive a registration form for each child AT LEAST one week prior to the session. We reserve to right to cancel any bookings not accompanied by a form. Please get in touch if you are unable to complete the form, we will be happy to help. Form is found here https://forms.gle/K53idUnP3pJDJ7vC9
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Woodland Wonders Ages 3 - 5 25th Feb PM
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Children’s forest activities led by Pat, a level 3 forest school qualified facilitator!
Explore the woodland and churchyard, discover local wildlife, hear stories around the campfire and play active outdoor games. Winter theme.
We will be outdoors weather permitting so please come dressed for it!
Suitable for ages 3-5, no dogs please.
If you have not completed an online registration form this year we MUST receive a registration form for each child AT LEAST one week prior to the session. We reserve to right to cancel any bookings not accompanied by a form. Please get in touch if you are unable to complete the form, we will be happy to help. Form is found here https://forms.gle/K53idUnP3pJDJ7vC9
St Michael & All Angels Church
Woodland Wonders Ages 6-12 Thurs 27th Feb AM
Thursday 27 February 2025
Children’s forest activities led by Pat, a level 3 forest school qualified facilitator!
Explore the woodland and churchyard, discover local wildlife, hear stories around the campfire and play active outdoor games. Winter theme.
We will be outdoors weather permitting so please come dressed for it!
Suitable for ages 6-12, no dogs please.
If you have not completed an online registration form this year we MUST receive a registration form for each child AT LEAST one week prior to the session. We reserve to right to cancel any bookings not accompanied by a form. Please get in touch if you are unable to complete the form, we will be happy to help. Form is found here https://forms.gle/K53idUnP3pJDJ7vC9
St Michael & All Angels Church
Woodland Wonders Ages 6-12 Thurs 27th Feb PM
Thursday 27 February 2025
Children’s forest activities led by Pat, a level 3 forest school qualified facilitator!
Explore the woodland and churchyard, discover local wildlife, hear stories around the campfire and play active outdoor games. Winter theme.
We will be outdoors weather permitting so please come dressed for it!
Suitable for ages 6-12, no dogs please.
If you have not completed an online registration form this year we MUST receive a registration form for each child AT LEAST one week prior to the session. We reserve to right to cancel any bookings not accompanied by a form. Please get in touch if you are unable to complete the form, we will be happy to help. Form is found here https://forms.gle/K53idUnP3pJDJ7vC9
St Michael & All Angels Church
