A new project to bring people together to share Covid experiences
6th July 2022
A new project - Places to Talk - will help people across Cumbria to come together and have a “place to talk” about their experiences of living through the Covid-19 pandemic and to share their hopes for the future. Places to Talk is led by Cumbria County Council and supported by ACTion with Communities in Cumbria as delivery partner.
If you’re part of a club or a group in Cumbria and you think that other members would like to share and listen to each other’s stories of the pandemic, then this project is for you. You might be on a village hall committee, a member of a community sports, young farmers or youth club, or a social club like a knit and natter. Perhaps you run a café that has a weekly pensioners' lunch, or a local business that would like to bring your employees together to talk.
To get people thinking about their experiences during the pandemic, and to demonstrate the benefits of sharing these, a short film and a series of short videos about the lives of people across Cumbria during the Covid-19 pandemic has been produced and are available to watch via the Council’s website: https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/placestotalk/
Funding and organisational support is available to groups that would like to run a session as part of their calendar of events and activities. You can find out more information on running a session, including the financial awards available to facilitate running a session, in this handy Places to Talk project leaflet. For any further support you can contact Dani on: info@cumbriaaction.org.uk or telephone 01768 425666.
The feedback from each session will be used to understand how the pandemic has affected people in different ways across the county and will help with identifying any support, help and advice that may be required. ACTion with Communities in Cumbria looks forward to support any participating groups who are interested in following up their conversation with more work on building connections through neighbourliness schemes or planning as a community for what might happen in the future.