Covid & I
Covid & I is a podcast created as part of the Sound Ideas To Share project.The national mental health charity Richmond Fellowship, which operates a skills-sharing network, Our Time for those who experience mental ill-health, partnered with Creative Lives and BBC Radio Merseyside to make this project happen.The project recruited people who had a passion for media, arts and culture to support those whose lives have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.Covid & I is a podcast for all those who felt the impact of covid by sharing positive stories of individuals and organisations who made positive changes to get through the pandemic. About Creative LivesCreative Lives is a registered charity that was established in 1991. We champion community and volunteer-led creative activity and work to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. In particular, we celebrate and promote people expressing themselves creatively with others, recognising the benefits this can bring. Creative Lives support and encourage people to be creative in their everyday lives, find out more by visiting www.creative-lives.org.We are delighted to partner with Timebanking UK and the Richmond Fellowship to support people in Merseyside to express themselves creatively and learn fundamental skills about podcasting making and the media.
Covid & I
Andrea Woods, Operations Manager of Sefton New Directions talks Covid, flexibility and supporting learners
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Episode #3 Andrea Woods talks about her role as Operations Manager in Sefton New Directions. When Lockdown came into effect, they began collating as much Government information about the pandemic as they could, in order to better educate the vulnerable people, they serve. Andrea talks about the way the pandemic changed the way Sefton New Directions adapted and supported the learners and some of the most at-risk people in Liverpool.