Our Community
This year, our chosen charity is Richmond’s Hope - an Edinburgh based organisation committed to supporting bereaved children and young people.
Richmond’s Hope provides support for children and young people aged 4-18 years who have been bereaved. The charity provides a safe space for children to work through their grief both verbally and non verbally, to preserve memories of the person who has died, to explore their feelings, to develop coping strategies and to understand the impact the bereavement has had on their lives.
As everyone’s grief is different, they provide individual programmes of care for each child. They have a dedicated team of bereavement workers who support children on a one to one basis.
They are also passionate about educating individuals and groups about the language surrounding grief and offer training and interest visits. The training they offer to external organisations aims to raise awareness of young people’s grief and how it affects their lives.
This charity is very important to the Woolly Good team - thank you for supporting it through your ticket sale donations…
Meet all our fabulous Community Organisations here!
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At Birkhill House CIC, Earlston
At Birkhill House CIC is focused on improving mental health outcomes for those living in the Borders, through caring, creativity and collaboration.
They have a holistic ethos incorporating the gardens, grounds, animals and people. Everything has a use and a purpose, from the composting that allows them to grow their own fruits, vegetables and animal feed, to the recycling and upcycling in their crafting activities. Animals provide companionship and comfort, and their fleece and wool is used for yarn, weaving, creative projects and to support a yearly fleece residency for textile students.
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Creation Mill CIC, Langholm
Creation Mill CIC was established in 2021 with the aim of shouting about all things textile, from fibre creation to recycling textile waste, all happening in the South of Scotland.
They aim to encourage the future generation to get involved in the industry in and around Langholm, pledging to provide accessible workshops, short courses and training sessions in textiles. They provide these resources by working in partnership with local schools, colleges and the job centre.
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Resonate Together Alloa
Resonate Together is a community funded organisation from Clackmannanshire which uses arts based programmes to support people who have experienced barriers in wellbeing and work.
Members of the group ‘Textile: Telling Stories of Clackmannanshire Heritage’ will be available to explain about latest project, research and how to get involved.
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Edinburgh Machine Knitters' Club
Volunteers from the Edinburgh Machine Knitters’ Club will be offering demonstrations, explanations and encouragement to visitors of The Gathering…
Have you wanted to try machine knitting, or do you have a question members of the group could help with? Perhaps you’d like information on joining the group to learn more together?
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Morningside Spinners
A super local group of keen spinners and crafters, volunteers from the Morningside Spinners group will be demonstrating, answering questions and encouraging attendees to explore ways to experiment with fibre.
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Shiatsu Hub
One of the most popular features of making sure you feel ‘Woolly Good’ is back again, with the wonderful registered practitioners of Shiatsu in Edinburgh. The team coordinated by Jacqui will be offering ‘pay what you feel’ sessions of seated Shiatsu therapy focused on your back, shoulders, neck and head.
Shiatsu, a Japanese physical therapy, uses a combination of acupressure points, gentle manipulation and stretching to promote a sense of relaxation and wellbeing.
We will again be collecting socks, hats and gloves for donation with Operation Christmas Stocking…
You can also support those who experience homelessness locally by using your craft skills and stash: Representatives of Operation Christmas Stocking will again be at Woolly Good to accept donations of socks, hats, gloves, scarves and cowls and blanket squares.. These are collected by CRISIS at the end of November to be distributed to people they are working with, in well-being packs for Christmas.
They are running short of socks and gloves (the fiddly stuff) and invite you to knit and bring along those items to Woolly Good (and Tangled, Galashiels in May) at CRISIS collection points.
In addition to collecting completed knits, volunteers will be talking about the work of CRISIS in Edinburgh. They will also provide patterns for the Operation Christmas Stocking blanket square, sock and glove designs
