Grow your community’s strength and resilience

Free activities, training and support for community groups and organisations

• Be prepared
• Activities
• Skills and training
• An extra pair of hands
• Blue Heart at your event

Activities can be adjusted to suit the needs of your group, and we welcome suggestions for other workshops, training or support you would like. Please email contact@blueheart.org.uk or call 07936 440074 with any queries or requests.

Be prepared!

• Are you ready?
  Take our readiness quiz and then work together on a plan to prepare for flooding and other emergencies.

• Get some expert advice
  • Rainwater harvesting – installing water butts, planters and other ways to collect and re-use rainwater
  • Making your home, business or community building more resilient to flooding
  • Creating a community flood or emergency plan

Activities

Activities designed to fit into your regular programme, facilitated by one of our team.

For adults

• Stronger Together game (45-60 mins)
  A new board game where teams must work together and use all their talents to manage the impact of an unwanted visitor…….
  
  
• Quiz (30-60 mins)
  General and local knowledge, pictures and prizes!
  
  
• Craft and chat (60-90 mins)
  Hands-on creative activity and conversations.
  
  
• Citizen science – water quality testing taster (60 mins)
  Learn how to to monitor the water quality and immediate environment around local water sources with Strandliners. If you like it, you could become a regular contributor.
  
  
• Introduction to Blue Heart (20-40 mins)
  Short, illustrated talk about how we’re trying to anticipate flooding and reduce its impact in Eastbourne and southern Wealden.

For families

• Craft activities (30-60 mins)
  
  
• Water works (60-120 mins)
  A series of outdoor, hands-on activities about water, and our Lego House! Based on our SuDS for Schools engagement session, facilitated by one of our team.
  
  
• Storytelling with The Bard (60-90 mins)
  Help build a story den, join in the storytelling by doing sound effects and speaking parts, and then draw the story or your ideas!
  

Skills and Training

Sharing some of our team’s skills, to help you achieve your goals.

Get started by learning the basics, or review what you already do and learn some new techniques. Sessions 60-120 minutes depending on the needs of participants.

• Social media and websites
• Creating images with impact, using Canva (a free-to-use online graphic design tool)
• Working with local press

An extra pair of hands

If what you really need is just an extra pair of hands for a task or event, please email contact@blueheart.org.uk. We can give you up to 4 hours of a team member’s time.

Blue Heart at your event

If you would like Blue Heart to be part of your community event, please email contact@blueheart.org.uk.

PLEASE NOTE

Please give us as much notice as possible. Fulfilling requests is dependent on staff availability.