Making Well: Health & Healing through Green Crafts
At the end of March we completed our six-month pilot programme, called ‘Making Well: Health and Healing through Green Crafts.” For a small charity, this felt like a big milestone!
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Making Well: Health & Healing Through Green Crafts
The Fathom Trust is running a six-month pilot study to evaluate the social value of green prescribing and to increase public and private investment in preventative healthcare.
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Save Afghan Children from starvation & malnutrition this Christmas
This is an opportunity for immediate, direct and practical assistance - please help our clinic raise £40,000 this Christmas to distribute food and basic medicines.
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An Interview with John Bell, Diplomat and Director of the Conciliators Guild
John interviewed Will about the Fathom Trust and his experience of traditional crafts from his time at Turquoise Mountain in Afghanistan.
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An interview with the Philosopher and Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist
Iain interviewed Will on the origins of Fathom and together they explored why this approach is so desperately needed as a means of restoring people's health and dignity
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Introducing Kickstart apprentices to traditional crafts
We are working with Cardiff & Vale University Health Board to offer a day course in health and wellbeing based on traditional craft making for 200 16-24yr old Kickstart apprentices.
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Fathoming with the Merthyr Tydfil Pupil Referral Unit
We had the privilege of introducing six 11-14 yr old boys from the Merthyr Pupil Referral Unit to the Brecon Beacons during a Landrover safari and woodland walk from Myndd Illtyd to Penpont.
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This is the beginning of a story about a young man called Dafydd Millns
This is the beginning of a story about a young man called Dafydd Millns, who has overcome a profoundly debilitating illness by establishing life-giving connections to the natural world.
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Fathoming with Doctors in Distress
It was a pleasure to introduce the charity Doctors in Distress to the power of craft - in this case whittling - to relieve stress and create fertile thinking space at St. Giles House in Dorset.
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Dry Stone Walling with Coleg Sir Gar
We had a great time dry stone walling in the Brecon Beacons with a group of 16-18 yr olds from Carmartheshire
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A Crafts-based retreat for the NHS
In September The Fathom Trust organised a day retreat based on traditional crafts for an NHS Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service
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