Amber Valley Movers & Shakers

Nature/Shift will encourage residents to engage with, creative writing activities in green spaces on their doorstep, promoting good mental health

Nature/Shift

The Social Change Nest

Conor Perrott

Financial contribution to Movers & Shakers Network

Collaborating with communities to make, do, create, repair, grow, share and care for what matters to them in the places they live. 

Make/Shift

Supporting Movers & Shakers in Amber Valley to kickstart a new idea or have a go at something they’ve always wanted to try.

Movers & Shakers Network

Shadow Facilitator -Nature/Shift 19th July 2026

Dan Webber

Financial contribution to Movers & Shakers Community Panel

The Movers & Shakers Panel works as a collective to make democratic decisions together about how the Movers & Shakers Community Fund is distributed.

Movers & Shakers Community Panel

Delivery of Imprint sessions and travel costs

Imprint is a series of printmaking workshops inspired by local memories and personal stories. 

Imprint

Karen

A place for men to connect through doing and making together. Aiming to reduce isolation, encourage openness & remind men they’re not alone

Langley Mill Man Club

The Potteries Community Hub

Nature Shift walk leading and facilitation

So Sparham

Felt & flow is a beginner friendly mixed media felting & mark making workshop designed to spark curiosity, build confidence & encourage personal expression.

Felt & Flow

nearlyblindartist

Artist - Research, meeting in the land, design meeting & calls, initial sketches and working towards publication illustrations

Using the leyline that runs through Amber Valley to create a poetry trail - so that residents and groups can take a mindful walk, explore both outer and their own inner landscapes through invitations to walk, sit, breathe, feel and listen to the land. 

Tara Bennett- Listen to the land

Ash Martin

LISTENING TO THE LAND MOVERS AND SHAKERS PROJECT RESEARCH, ADMIN, WRITING AND EDITING

Tara Bennett

A group designed to engage local people in local social and activity events. Aimed at, but not specific to, those socially isolated by circumstance, long term illness or recuperating.  Events are shorter, easy to get to, free or as cheap as possible.  

Charlotte Burnley- Aldercar & Langley Friends

A.L.F is a small social and activity group primarily for people in Aldercar, Langley Mill and surrounding areas. Our aim? To improve life locally a little bit at a time. Therapy without the cost!

Charlie Burnley

Inspire new ways of looking at the same with different perspectives. A neglected urban edge can be transformed into a beauty spot for wildlife & people.

Julie Swindel -A Ponder Pond

Julie Swindel

Milly Melbourne

An open mic night made for, by and with young people in and around Amber Valley. A safe space to come and perform or to watch others of their own age perform. 

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