Last Crafters Cafe Session Crickhowell before the summer break - what a totally absorbing morning of making with clay with @reuben2001jyoti and @melaniemademud
We will be back at @peakcymru on 11th September for an autumn term of friendship and learning new crafts - if you’d like to come along to our drop in sessions they run from 9.30am to 1pm every Thursday in term time, £5 donation suggested per session 😊
Please email us on [email protected] for details 👍
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Crafters Cafe Spring Fair today was a great success at St Mary’s Church Brecon - thank you to everyone who came along to support our fundraising 🙌
Will have details soon on our next fair in the summer in Crickhowell - all funds raised go towards running our 4 crafters cafes! Everyone is welcome for friendship, wellbeing and crafting.
Please share and support us if and when you can! 🙏
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Brecon - Crickhowell - Crossgates - Rhayader
Blissful morning at Crafters Cafe Crickhowell with excellent guidance from @minnie_la_la_designs - to trust the process of finding creative flow.
Mindful and relaxing and confidence boosting.
If you’d like to find out more about coming along to our craft cafes in Brecon on Mondays and Crickhowell on Thursdays please get in touch 👍 all are welcome, small donations for friendship and creativity ♥️
Contact: [email protected]
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Celebrating a wonderful season in the Making Well community garden as we continue to establish our new Apothecary Garden in the Brecon Beacons. A huge thank you to @nationalgardenscheme for supporting our work this year with a community garden grant. We are so looking forward to developing further opportunities for local people to join us in the garden next year.
To find out more about our work in the Apothecary Garden, click the link in our bio.
Big shout out too to @elladavies_art for creating our signage for the Apothecary beds and the healing qualities of the plants they tell of so beautifully. More pics to come!
And huge appreciation for all those who have sown seeds, planted out, tended the soil and fed the compost this year!
Happy autumning in the garden to all!
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A day of hay dolly making for our new yet very primitive garden shelter! Wonderful work by all taking part in the autumn Making Well course in Bwlch 🍃 🍂
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Making Well: Health & Healing through Green Crafts
Are you curious about exploring the benefits of traditional craft making & nature connection as a pathway towards improved health & wellbeing?
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If so, we still have spaces available on our next fully funded eight-week, 'Making Well' course, starting on Tuesday 3rd September, held in a beautiful natural setting near Rhayader.
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During each weekly session there will be opportunities to work alongside skilled craft practitioners, such as green woodworkers, basket makers and nature connection guides, who will support you in learning new craft-based skills with a focus on health & healing. Each Making Well course provides a closed-group setting, enabling a nurturing space for personal and social connections to flourish.
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To find out more for yourself, or if you have someone in mind that could benefit from this opportunity, please get in touch to arrange a conversation with one of our friendly team members who can talk to you more about what's involved.
Please drop us an email at: [email protected]
Alternatively, you can apply directly to Making Well by following the link below and scrolling down to the 'taking part' section.
/programmes/making-well/
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Today we celebrated the end of our summer 'Making Well' course in Bwlch. What a joy it has been to spend the last eight weeks with such a wonderful group of people, and to witness all of the growth in each other and surrounding landscape that has held and supported us here so beautifully. Thanks too to our brilliant team of practitioners for sharing your creativity with so much love and care.
To find out more about our work, follow the links in our bio section.
And to learn more about our autumn 'green prescribing' courses taking place in September in Bwlch & Rhayader, please email: [email protected]
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The Fathom Trust will be running two new Making Well programmes this summer, one in Rhayader and one in Pontardawe near Ystradgynlais. If you are interested in finding out more for yourself, or if you are supporting anyone living locally that might benefit from joining this fully funded 8-week 'green social prescribing' programme, please send us an email to: [email protected], and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
To find out more visit our website at: /programmes/making-well/
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Join us for our upcoming Open Morning on Tuesday 7th May. For further information and to participate in a summer eight week Making Well programme near you, please contact: [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you!
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At Llanfellte, the Crocuses are blooming and birds in the garden are gathering bundles of wool and moss to weave their nests together. Our work here at Fathom Trust is also stirring into life with our Spring Making Well programme just around the corner. We have a few spaces remaining and will be open to anyone wishing to sign up until Friday 29th March. Do get in touch if you have been wanting to find out more.
What's involved ?
🌳 Making Well is an eight-week ‘green prescribing’ programme aiming to promote health & wellbeing by using traditional craft making, conservation, and contemplation.
🌳 Each course is made up of no more than twelve participants over the age of 18 years, with a personal experience of mental or physical illness and with an interest in developing skills in craft-making and self-care.
🌳 No previous crafting experience is required for the programme, as all activities are designed to be fully accessible.
For further information, please send us an email to: [email protected], or follow the links in our bio section.
We look forward to hearing from you!
#makingwell #fathomtrust #greensocialprescribing #healthandwellbeing #naturehealthandwellbeing #recoveringwithnature #greencare #natureconnetion #traditionalcraft #contemplation #ecotherapy #craftofcare #communitywellbeing #powys #breconbeacons
During our summer 2023 Making Well programme, we were joined by architect and cob builder, Hugh Conway Morris. Hugh joined us as a visiting craft practitioner and over the course of 8 weeks shared with us his love of soil and earth and cob dancing!. With Hugh's guidance we were all delighted to have taken part in the creation of a beautiful new cob oven for Llanfellte. We very much look forward to Hugh joining us again later this year.
Learn more about Hugh's craft teaching experience at Making Well 👇
"I found my experience of being a crafter with Making Well profoundly uplifting. It brought together those things I care most about in this life – the craft of beauty, outreach and sharing this with others, and the beautiful setting of the natural environment. I could hardly ask for a better place to work, with the weather streaming up the valley from the west (although it hardly rained in all my time there), and the clouds dappling the distant mountains with light and shadow, an ever-changing and health-giving rhythm.
I frequently reassured myself that if you are not learning while you are teaching, you’re probably not teaching very well. Thus while I can bring my experience in cob building and carpentry to bear for all to enjoy, Making Well was truly collaborative, with different people excelling at different approaches, and making their own discoveries along the way, helping me to see things in new ways. Combined with a gentle programme of sit-spots, contemplation, good chat and fine outdoor-cooked food, I know that I benefited greatly from taking part; the progress with participants from the first day of quiet enjoyment to the final session of laughter and song assures me that each person took something and gained something."
To find out more about our work please visit:
Bookings for our Spring Making Well programme are now open. For further information please email us at: [email protected]
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Join us for our next 8-week ‘Making Well’ programme starting in April.
Making Well is an eight-week ‘green prescribing’ programme aiming to promote health and healing by using traditional craft making, conservation, and contemplation. These programme dates take place at Llanfellte, a beautiful upland farm in the Brecon Beacons near the village of Bwlch in Powys.
Each course is made up of no more than twelve participants over the age of 18 years, with a personal experience of mental or physical illness and with an interest in developing skills in craft-making, nature-connection and self-care. No previous crafting experience is required for the programme.
If you would like to find out more, or express an interest in joining us for our next Making Well experience day, please send an email to: [email protected] and we will be in touch to answer any questions you may have.
Our Spring programme dates:
April 4th - May 23rd
We look forward to hearing from you!
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