04Sep 2023 by Melmanning

Our 4 day Hackathon in partnership with Ricebox Studios

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Recently we ran a 4 day Hackathon FREEDOM 2 B programme in partnership with Ricebox Studios in a school in Waltham Forest. Students were invited to come together and reflect on the idea of online identity using Augmented Reality (AR). We also hosted an exhibition which took place at Lea Bridge Library in East London where more activities were provided for visitors and the local community to design more elements and AR work themselves, while they interacted with the final AR work the participants had produced, providing opportunities for conversations about online identity. View video here

04Apr 2023 by Melmanning

Funding for FREEDOM 2’s new FREEDOM 2 B programme

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We are pleased to announce that FREEDOM 2 has been selected by Foundation for Future London 1 of 17 Collaborative Commissions, awarding a total of £154,960 as part of the Connecting People & Places Fund, co-funded by City of London. Our project “Freedom 2 B” will be in partnership with Ricebox Studios, whereby we will be running a four-day hackathon for beginners introducing AR with the lens of activism and online and offline identities. Commissioned projects will unlock further understanding on how creativity can be used to deliver arts, education, employment programming that provides creative learning opportunities, employment and leadership roles, training and fusion skills development. https://future.london/article/announcing-connecting-people-and-places-funds-collaborative-commissions-2023/ Watch this space to find out more about this project in the coming weeks.

30Jun 2021 by Melmanning

PRESS RELEASE

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FREEDOM 2 bags £1,000 from Tesco’s community grant scheme. FREEDOM 2 is delighted to announce it has bagged £1,000 from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme. Bags of Help is run in partnership with community charity Groundwork, and sees grants awarded to thousands of local community projects every year. Since launching in 2015, Bags of Help has provided more than £68 million to almost 30,000 local community projects across England. Tesco colleagues have come together virtually up and down the country to vote and it can now be revealed FREEDOM 2 has been awarded £1,000. Work will now begin on bringing the project to life. FREEDOM 2 Create 'We run a 6 week art programme with our beneficiaries called FREEDOM 2 Create, focusing on important topics such as self-worth,…

10Jun 2021 by Melmanning

For the 1 News!

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We are really excited to announce that our ‘For the 1’ podcast is now out! We released the trailer this week and the first episode is out on Monday 14thJune. So why did we decide to progress from having our monthly For the 1 blog to adding in a podcast. Here is what our founder Mel had to say: ‘For the 1 was a phrase that came to my mind one day a couple of years ago when I was thinking about the impact of the work that we do with our beneficiaries. We live in a world where it is drummed into us that numbers count. I was constantly asked, ‘How many girls have you worked with, How many schools are you going into?’ and I was constantly feeling…

24May 2021 by Melmanning

For the 1 – Acts of Kindness

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If I may I would like to share a memory from growing up. It is funny how certain events, either good or bad, get lodged in the memory. There was this one time when I was probably in my late teens, where something happened that I will never forget. To you, it may seem really trivial, almost dull, but to me, it was something that I will remember to my dying days. I recall one evening sitting at home, probably bored (this was before the internet, Sky sports and believe it or not there were only 4 TV channels). I was settling down for another dull evening when there was a knock at the door. My parents went to answer it and at the doorstep were all my closest friends.…