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Events for February 2020

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Calendar of Events
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3 Somali Rhyme Time Somali Parents’ Peer Support Group CRAFT-ernoon at Belsize Community Library Little Artists Club Yoga with Charli – Intermediate	4 English Rhyme Time English Conversation Class Transitions Youth Club Story Time! Yoga with Charli – Beginners	5 French Rhyme Time IT for over 60s Youth Club 4-6pm	6 No Homework Reading Group with Robert Hudson Science Tots!	7 Councillors Surgery – Nayra Bello O’Shanahan 7-8pm	8	9
10 Somali Rhyme Time Somali Parents’ Peer Support Group Little Artists Club Councillors’ Surgery for Belsize Ward Yoga with Charli – Intermediate	11 English Rhyme Time English Conversation Class Transitions Youth Club Story Time! Yoga with Charli – Beginners	12 French Rhyme Time IT for over 60s Youth Club 4-6pm Chalcots Community Hack I Session 1 Belsize Community Yoga	13 Chalcots Community Hack I Session 2 No Homework Reading Group with Robert Hudson Science Tots! Comics Creators Workshop	14 Belsize Community Open Mic Night	15	16
17 Somali Rhyme Time Somali Parents’ Peer Support Group CRAFT-ernoon at Belsize Community Library Little Artists Club Yoga with Charli – Intermediate	18 English Rhyme Time English Conversation Class Transitions Youth Club Story Time! Yoga with Charli – Beginners	19 French Rhyme Time IT for over 60s Youth Club 4-6pm	20 No Homework Reading Group with Robert Hudson Science Tots! Friends of Belsize Library: Picasso and Printmaking	21	22	23
24 Somali Rhyme Time Somali Parents’ Peer Support Group Little Artists Club Yoga with Charli – Intermediate	25 English Rhyme Time English Conversation Class Transitions Youth Club Story Time! Yoga with Charli – Beginners	26 French Rhyme Time IT for over 60s Youth Club 4-6pm Belsize Community Yoga Banned Book Club! A world of love: “I am Jazz”, “Julian is a Mermaid” and LGBT+ children’s picturebooks	27 No Homework Reading Group with Robert Hudson Science Tots! Comics Creators Workshop	28 Belsize Community Open Mic Night	29

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The Winch Promise Work

My experience of Promise Work

It was around March 2013 when I first engaged with The Winch and met my Promise Worker. I was with the job centre and it was very bad at the time. I was frustrated, couldn’t keep control of my emotions and felt depressed and I wasn’t enjoying the courses which the job centre provided. It

A young person joins The Company

I joined the Company when I was 24 because I was trying to get work at the time, and I was with a Camden apprenticeships program and the Winch got in contact with them. The woman who was running the program at the time, Nina put me in touch with a (youth worker from The

A parent in emergency accommodation

My first contact with The Winch was one of the ‘Connecting Parents’ sessions that was nearly a year and a half ago. At the time I was in emergency accommodation. The coordinator of Homestart got in contact with Page (at) The Winch who introduced me to a session at Belsize Community Library. We did a