Annual Report 2023 -2024

We wanted to let you know about our Annual Report and share it with you all. It’s a celebration of our work, partnerships, and projects in schools and the community. Thank you for being part of our story and showing such creativity, compassion and resilience in these times.

You can download it from our website.

Here’s a small selection of some of the projects we have been involved in this year.

Drain Art workshops

One of the outcomes from the PLACE Project was working with A level students at QE School in Wimborne to deliver a workshop on the environmental impact of litter, especially cigarette butts, thrown into street drains in the town. Their artwork was then painted on 2 drains in Wimborne town centre by the talented artist Claire Nuttall.

Fairtrade

Fairtrade continues to be a popular topic to explore as Bea Collis, Assistant Headteacher from Heatherlands Primary, invited us in to work with all 96 of their Year 4 pupils for the day. The morning workshops led to the pupils creating posters, price lists and setting up and running three Fairtrade stalls for their parents and adults at the end of the school day. All the stock came from the Fair Ground shop in Wimborne, where Sarah is also a Director.

Diverse Stories Day

DEED co-created a Diverse Stories Day for the whole of Prince of Wales First School in May 2023. All 180 pupils, staff and Tas participated in a day learning about how people from diverse backgrounds have contributed to life in the UK, including role models such as Dame Floella Benjamin and Dr Maggie Alderin-Pocock who have also written books. It was a fantastic day!

Celebrating Our Sisters: BCP Black History Month 2023

Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) Council’s Race and Cultural Diversity Staff Network group hosted their second annual Black History Month event in Bournemouth University’s Bournemouth Gateway Building. The event highlighted the crucial role that Black women have played in shaping history, inspiring change, and building communities.

Louise shared the stage with other inspirational women: Bernadette MacDonald, Chair of the Equality Council Commission; Toni Jones, Senior Practitioner, Adult Social Care; and Dr. Isioma Nwokolo, Consultant Psychiatrist, and talked about some of the findings from DEED’s new partnership project, Where We Can Call Home.

A Place Called Hope

DEED has been touring with Vita Nova’s Celeste performing art group consisting of refugees and asylum seekers from around the world including Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, and Belarus touring their production ‘Hopefool’ this year. We visited 4 venues in BCP and Dorset: Vita Nova, Bournemouth on 7 May 2023; Sandy Hill Arts Centre, Corfe on 8 July 2023; Bridport Town Hall on 29 July 2023; Museum of East Dorset on 30 July 2023 reaching local audiences of over 300 people in total.