What a year it has been. From our High Tide Award at Willowgate, to lambing at The Rings, it’s been a fun filled, fast twelve months.
Our guys tested themselves with so many new opportunities this year. We enjoyed new courses with new centre’s as well as returning to some old favourites. Our Willowgate course was accredited with an award like a Duke of Edinburgh award which was a great experience for our guys. Some overcame big fears, like swimming in open water and canoeing up the Tay.
We enjoyed the tail end of summer in Kinghorn at The Ecology Centre and helped harvest their delicious produce for their community kitchen. Our group then enjoyed a return to a much-loved art group at Forgan Arts Centre. This was lovely as the guys enjoyed a holistic art experience using colour from the nature in the grounds at Forgan Arts, which we saw being used by other artists in the local McManus galleries in Dundee.
Our group enjoyed ‘becoming sheep farmers’ at another charity ‘The Rings’, our physicality and stamina were pushed when we learned how to restrain, care for and weigh sheep for food supply. The guys learned so much that we returned in the beginning of 2024 to help with the most important job of the year, lambing.
We enjoyed expressing more creativity at Glass Fusion as well as returning to the DCA to work on a ‘Dundee Skyline’ theme. We then explored landmarks of Dundee afterwards. This work was shown in a very successful exhibition in the art centre.
Our group has just finished a 10-week placement with the Ecology Centre after the success last year and we completed a seating area project that can be utilised by anyone that passes Kinghorn. A real sense of achievement for our group and everything that they have achieved and learned.
Here’s to new challenges for this year!
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