Honouring Chalkhill’s past, present and future community

Together Forever was a multi-disciplinary, intergenerational community wellbeing project designed to honour the people, places, and memories of the Chalkhill community.

I led the project from concept to completion, facilitating creative and therapeutic workshops that brought different generations together to share experiences of loss, resilience, and renewal. Working with local residents and children from Chalkhill Primary School, we co-created a large-scale memorial mural and a poetry resource book exploring grief, wellbeing, and creative expression.

The project strengthened community connection and created a lasting visual legacy celebrating memory, healing, and hope.

Poetry Resource book
The engagement with young people was enhanced by the use of a specially edited poetry resource book, featuring a series of poetry-based resilience activities, providing pupils with opportunities to discuss and explore wellbeing and mental health, specifically grief and loss through ideas, expression, and performance.

Readers were invited to participate in several poetry-led activities, sharing different poetic styles from classical through to the modern era, whilst gaining an understanding of creative writing and poetic vocabulary.

Activities included poems to read and reflect upon, poems to write and explore feelings, poems to engage with others, and poems to perform.