Norfolk in Care Council projects

A creative alternative to Pathway Plans

We held a workshop at the Sainsbury's Centre to explore a creative alternative to the pathway plan.

The pathway plan is a document that young people fill out with their life beyond care personal advisor. It includes your wellbeing, education and employment plans, priorities, hobbies, health and finances.

Young people had fed back how they wanted a more creative, visual version of the pathway plan.

The Sainsbury's Centre kindly hosted us for an afternoon to create vision boards. We had the table covered in old stacks of magazines, stickers, pens, paper, prompts, you name it...Young people created their own vision boards. Team managers from the life beyond care team joined in and we all noted how productive and enlightening it was to do this sort of activity.

The visual and creative approach was really engaging. It was a great way to find out about our young people and their goals, aspirations and priorities, all by getting crafty together and the conversations that naturally came up. The image is an example of their creations.

Big thanks to the Sainsbury's Centre for having us!

The Norwich Theatre Royal project

'Care Kid Inventions' was a play created by young people during their week-long theatre project at the Norwich Theatre Royal.

During this week, young people took part in a bunch of different workshops from voice, movement, acting to lighting.

It was an incredible week to watch them turn up every day as the stage became a vehicle for their voices and stories. Together they danced, laughed, listened and shared with each other their experiences growing up in care, culminating in their satirical play 'Care Kid Inventions'.

This is a reflection from one of our young people on the week, which was published in the Autumn 2024 edition of The Scoop magazine.

"Working on the theatre project was a fun, exciting experience which I really enjoyed being a part of. I loved working with my friends and meeting new people, who understand and relate to me. During the week I was able to voice my ideas, hear other people's views and create an amazing piece of art.
My favourite part of the project was the end performance, as it was an emotional yet exiting moment for me. I felt proud of myself and everyone who was a part of it, we all worked extremely hard, and our performance was incredible, and moving. I would love to do it again.

The Scoop art workshop

Whilst planning our autumn edition of The Scoop magazine, our young people said they wanted it to feel more creative.

We ran an art workshop for them in the summer where we splashed paint, collaged, chatted and chilled. They created their very own pieces and designed the front cover together. This is the start of more art workshops to come with The Scoop magazine.

Thank you to Norwich University of the Arts for giving us the space to be able to do this.