Join the Creative Community Champions Network The Creative Lives Community Champions Network is an online peer support network for people who lead, organise and host participatory creative cultural activities that take place regularly in social groups in England. To be part of this network we recommend that you join our FREE Online Peer Support Forum on Slack!This is a safe, private online space to ask for advice and help, and to give and receive peer support. It's free, and easy to use just follow this link https://tinyurl.com/CLChampionsSlackLink to join us on our new private online peer support forum on Slack. We've prepared a short video introduction to Slack and how to join, which you can view here: Follow this link https://tinyurl.com/CLChampionsSlackLink to join us on our new private online peer support forum on Slack. Our Spring/Summer Training & Networking Programme Next up is our #CreativeNetwork - Wellbeing online meeting, which is taking place on Zoom on:Monday 30 May 2022, from 1pm-2pm: Environmental Responsibility - Discussing recent CHWA's Creativity, Health and Climate case studies. Find out more and register for your free place here! #CreativeNetwork - Wellbeing is a monthly conversation, providing the chance to exchange experiences, encourage peer support for practitioner and facilitator wellbeing and share good practice. This event series is delivered in partnership with the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance Then our #CreativeNetwork - Crafts online conversation is taking place on Zoom on: Monday 13 June 2022, from 12noon-1pm, and the theme is 'How crafting can bring a community together', with guest Naz Syed & Marilyn Priday. Find out more and register for your free place here!#CreativeNetwork - Crafts is a supportive space to meet other people interested in crafts and share tips or resources. These free regular Zoom networking events are open to anyone leading, organising or hosting participatory crafts activities and workshops.This event series is delivered in cohosted with Heritage Crafts You can find out about other upcoming #CreativeNetwork events here. We'd also love to hear from you if you have any specific support you'd like us to include in these sessions or if you have suggestions for any other subjects you'd like us to cover. You can do this via the help-learning-suggestions channel on Slack or by emailing [email protected] More about the Creative Community Champions NetworkIn spring 2021 Creative Lives invited creative community champions across England to tell us who they are, what they do and what sort of support they need via a short survey. So far over 125 people responded. We analysed the results and have listened to what respondents told us, and in response we have created the Creative Lives Community Champions Network. We launched this new network in September 2021 on Zoom. The event started with an overview of the survey results, we announced our forthcoming Training & Networking Programme and introduced our new free bespoke peer support forum on Slack (see below for details). You can watch a short video that captures the highlights and key takeaways from this event here: We're still keen to hear from any creative community champions that haven't already completed the original survey. Get in touch by completing this online form to tell us who you are and what support you need, and one of our regional development officers will be in touch. Regional Development Officers England Team Contacts London - natanya [at] creative-lives.orgMidlands - nicola [at] creative-lives.orgSouth East and East - charlotte [at] creative-lives.orgSouth West - sally [at] creative-lives.org