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Child Poverty Strategy – great initiatives – but not for all children

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The long awaited Child Poverty Strategy arrived last week and it was welcome. We were honoured to be asked to feed in to the child poverty strategy before it was created, and we are over the moon that some of its recommendations directly reflect the asks of our Rights Experience Advocacy Change group’s campaign asks.

Six week legal limit

One of our main asks in the NO CHILD IN A HOME WITHOUT A KITCHEN campaign was a stepping stone of making sure that no families were in B&B accommodation for longer than the six week legal limit. We are excited to see that this gained traction and attention and now is a major part of the child poverty strategy.

“The strategy will also end the unlawful placement of families in Bed and Breakfasts beyond the six-week limit. To support this, the Government is investing £8 million in Emergency Accommodation Reduction Pilots in 20 local authorities that have the highest use of Bed and Breakfasts for homeless families – continuing the programme for the next three years. Alongside this, the government will provide £950 million through the fourth and largest round of the Local Authority Housing Fund from April 2026 to deliver up to 5,000 high-quality homes for better temporary accommodation by 2030. Further details will be set out in the upcoming Homelessness Strategy.“

Gifty the head of our REACH team says:

We have been asking that no child is in a B&B for longer than the six week legal limit – and the local authority has been working hard to acheive it – but they have struggled to find alternatives especially if a child needs to be in the borough. The extra financial help to make this happen is very welcome.

Notification system for those in TA

Notifying local services when a child is moved in to temporary accommodation in their area – to ensure that they get the services to which they are entitled – is a welcome move – as it will place the responsibility back on those services to engage with families – rather than on fraught and exhausted families to find them. Thi is especially important when children are often moved across borough borders frequently and with little warning.

“A new legal duty will also be introduced for councils to notify schools, health visitors, and GPs when a child is placed in temporary accommodation, so no child is left without support. This enables health and education providers to deliver a more joined up approach to support children experiencing homelessness.”

This is good in terms of safeguarding and also families won’t have to keep explaining their situations to schools or health services to get the right support (and sooner). We often feel overwhelmed and alone navigating education, health, and housing systems but this will shift responsibility to councils and service providers.

Ending the discharge of mothers and newborns in to B&Bs

The Government will also work with the NHS to end the practice of mothers with newborns being discharged to B&Bs or other forms of unsuitable housing.”

A member of our REACH team says:

I think it is a beautiful step and it is a relief to hear this good news.
I experienced speaking to the midwife about my accommodation when I had my baby and they gave excuses .So helping mothers and newborns right from NHS level is awesome . And carrying other bodies along like the school and health visitors is just perfect.

But this is not good news for all children



For families going through the legal process of seeking asylum the six week legal limit does not apply – children can be in hotel rooms without cooking facilities for up to two years. The protections for the children of those fleeing war and persecution are not the same as for all other children. We don’t think this is right.

The No Recourse to Public Funds condition which withholds basic welfare protections from children born in to families with insecure immigration status means that while the government is doing its best to lift some children out of poverty, it is withholding vital help from others.

We would appeal to the government to include #AllOurChildren in any child poverty strategy – that means those who are in poverty through larger economic factors and the twists and turns of life AND those who are in legally mandated destitution – denied the basic welfare safety net that would keep them out of destitution through immigration regulations.

The REACH TEAM says:

It is not right that some Magpie Mums and Minis will be benefitted under this strategy and others will not.
We will not rest until we see improvements for #AllOurChildren.

Say ‘Hello’ to our Healing Community

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As soon as we moved in to our new building – the Grassroots Resource Centre – we had dreams of leveraging this lovely space for our community in exciting and innovative new ways

We invited the Casework Solidarity Forum to hold their event at our building – free of charge.

We invite our wonderful partners – including neighbours Barney Bears Nursery, and our wonderful partners Discover Story – to use our board-room when they need to rehearse new stories or shows.

We gave a home to the incredibly talented women from Gainsborough Quilters – who donate intricate and beautiful quilts for our new baby bags, they come once a month..

But our dreams are still so big – and now one of them is coming true.

Louise Klarnett has been the dance artist in residence at The Magpie Project since January 2019 and witnesses first hand, the effects of traumatic circumstances both, past and ongoing, that the mums and minis who access our services experience.

We started to talk with Louise about how much our mums and minis might benefit from her other expertise – craniosacral therapy.

As we talked this through, Roselle Gillam paediatric osteopath also got involved in discussions.

Our goal was simple: to offer critical and timely support which can be life-changing for the families’ physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

So we set up a clinic whereby Louise’s and Roselle’s wonderful customers (clients/ patients) not only undertake their own healing but contribute towards healing in their community by enabling mothers and babies at risk of homelessness to access treatments too.

So here it is – unveiled – our Healing Community clinics. Find out more about osteopathy and Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy below – and then find out more and book a treatment through Louise and Roselle’s websites.

What is osteopathy?

As described by the General Osteopathic Council Osteopathy is a system of diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of medical conditions. It works with the structure and function of the body and is based on the principle that the well-being of an individual depends on the skeleton, muscles, ligaments and connective tissues functioning smoothly together.

Osteopaths use touch, physical manipulation, stretching and massage to increase the mobility of joints, to relieve muscle tension, to enhance the blood and nerve supply to tissues, and to help the body’s own healing process. They may also provide advice on posture and exercise to aid recovery, promote health and prevent symptoms recurring.

What is craniosacral therapy? 

Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on therapy that uses a light touch and whose origins are in the practice of Osteopathy. 

​The body has self-healing capabilities and is constantly striving for good health. Craniosacral Therapy can facilitate this natural propensity for balance and a feeling of wellbeing in the client. Craniosacral Therapy recognises the interconnection between mind and body. 

​Craniosacral therapists work with the presence of subtle rhythmic motions that are expressed within the body (particularly the head, spine and pelvis). The free and balanced expression of these subtle motions is related to our state of health and vitality.

​In a typical session the client will lie (or sometimes sit) clothed on a treatment couch. The therapist makes contact by gently placing their hands on the client’s body and uses a light touch to tune into the subtle motions taking place. The therapist can evaluate if there are any imbalances within the body and use a range of non-invasive therapeutic skills to relax and thereby promote self-healing within the client. 

Roselle Gillam initially worked as a dance artist prior to becoming an osteopath. She graduated from the European School of Osteopathy and then went on to complete the Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy at the Osteopathic Centre for Children. She works with Alison Brown and Associates in East London and as Senior Osteopath at the Osteopathic Centre for Children. www.rosellegillam.com

Louise Klarnett is both a dance artist, working in health, community and education, and a biodynamic craniosacral therapist (BCST). She offers BCST treatments for all – pregnant people, new babies, toddlers, children and adults of all ages. Clients access treatments to support a variety of physical and emotional  health and wellbeing needs. www.louiseklarnettcraniosacral.com 

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Towards a somatically-informed practice

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When visitors come to see us at our new base in West Ham, they often tell us how ‘safe’ and ‘welcoming’ it feels. This makes our hearts sing – especially because we have put eight years of evolving thinking and practice in to creating and maintaining a calm, accepting, nurturing environment. Here’s how……..


At the Magpie Project, we are acutely aware that mothers and their children often arrive in crisis, carrying significant trauma and anxiety.

We recognize the effects of trauma on our mothers, including being emotionally withdrawn, tearful, hypervigilant, and carrying pain that makes it difficult for them to trust or settle.

Babies (minis) often display signs of strained or dysregulated attachment with their mothers, such as dissociation, being unusually quiet, lacking facial tone, hyperactivity, and facing developmental delays or issues.

When we see a large number of people, many of whom are feeling anxious or desperately looking for help and support – the environment can become heightened or febrile quite fast: Our first christmas in 2017 – we threw far too much at our party – too many events, too much chaos, too many presents, too little warning! It was messy to say the least – we learned that anything unexpected – both scarcity and abundance can prompt anxiety stress.

Trauma-Aware Practice



Learning to work around trauma was a priority when we set up our project. In what we still see as a miracle of a meeting in 2018 we met an incredible psychologist.

With their kindness and careful attention we began a deep and wonderful collaboration to develop our trauma-informed practice, ensuring that we created a safe space for both mothers and their children.

This beautiful human – who we still work with today – helped us to evolve a charity-wide approach that includes transparency, offering choice, setting and maintaining boundaries, and working within a framework of unconditional positive regard for anyone and everyone we come in to contact with. That includes those who we are sometimes pitted against – front line workers in the housing and social care sectors.

Psychologically Informed Environments


We moved on from trauma-aware practice – which can sometimes feel uni-directional and something that professionals are still ‘doing’ to those using their services – to explore psychologically informed practices.

The approaches around Psychologically-informed-environments involve critically examining the beliefs, assumptions, and power dynamics that staff and volunteers bring to the space, and working to mitigate their effects.

What was revolutionary in this approach for staff and volunteers was the fact that it becomes possible to see how our own attitudes, levels of energy, core beliefs, assumptions and agendas are affecting our every interaction either for the better or the worse. It meant we could see our work at relational between two human beings in equity rather than one ‘professional’ interacting with a ‘service user’.

Towards a somatically-informed approach

We soon realised there was still work to be done in “holding the space”—ensuring that everyone who came for help remained calm, and maintaining an atmosphere that was authentic, positive, and safe. This is when we turned to Louise Klarnett, our dance artist-in-residence, for assistance with something that was difficult to articulate at the time.

We wanted to learn how to co-regulate as staff and volunteers with both mothers and children, and how to model co-regulation between mothers and their children. Our goal was to break the cycle of escalating anxiety and activation that sometimes threatened to overwhelm the space when mothers arrived feeling anxious or angry.

The first step in this process was for Louise to lead training for staff and volunteers on how trauma affects the body. We learned that trauma manifests in the body in different ways, such as pain, depression, or anxiety, and we became more attuned to these physical signs.

We also discussed how, as staff and volunteers, our own embodiment could help others regulate their nervous systems and create a place of calm. We introduced the principles of creating safety through polyvagal theory, which helped us understand how, by regulating our own systems, we could co-regulate with others and foster a sense of safety within an “organisational collective nervous system.”

Louise combined her expertise in craniosacral therapy and dance drawing on Steve Haines’ theories of trauma and embodiment to create a grounding exercise for the group. It invites participants to be curious, playful and imaginative and we began practicing each morning before sessions. This standing exercise, based on the OMG mnemonic, included:

  1. Orient – Louise led an improvisational structure that invited the group to observe their own body, the people around them, the space itself, the environment beyond the building, and imagined places in nature.
  2. Move – Participants were encouraged to move their major muscle groups in an undirected and free-form way.
  3. Ground – We invited the group to explore shifting their body weight off balance, then to find a sense of groundedness through the soles of their feet being fully in balance, imagining roots growing into the floor, connecting to the foundations of the building, and reaching into the earth.

We added “Breathe” to the mnemonic, inviting participants to place their hands on their body, observe their breathing without changing it, and take a moment to “land” and arrive in the present moment—ready and co-regulated as a team to face the day.

Accessing calm any time in the day

We encouraged our people to use this grounding exercise whenever they encountered “big energy” during the day, through a simple OMG/Breathe visualisation.

This daily practice is now often led by different people, including Louise, our Play Lead, and our CEO. They are able to improvise and adapt the practice based on the energy in the room and the realities of the day ahead. This practice is constantly evolving, drawing on Louise’s ongoing development in other areas of her professional work.

In the context of the project, the practice is brief—taking only five minutes—but its impact has been profound.

Since we began this practice, we have noticed that “flashpoints,” or moments when the project felt unsettled or tense, have become fewer and further between. Staff have gained more confidence in holding boundaries with mothers who are agitated, anxious, or distressed.

Visitors to the project – pretty much always describe our environment as “safe,” which, for us, is the most important foundation for every other interaction, intervention, co-creation, and moment of play that takes place in the space.

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Kitchen campaign update

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WOW! There is so much happening right now for our campaign. Visits from our wonderful MPs Stephen Timms and Uma Kumaran. Articles in the Guardian, the Metro, and Inside Housing. Our Rights Experience Advocacy Change (REACH) team of Magpie Mums have been SO busy in so many different ways.

We have also given written evidence to select committees, video, written and verbal evidence to the MHCLG’s task and finish group on homelessness – and we are continuing to attend our task and finish groups with Newham Public Health Team and Newham Food Alliance to mitigate the issues our mums living without kitchens are facing right now in Newham – while we are waiting for the big change.

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But now we need some more help.

In order to get a bigger picture of what it is like to live without a kitchen we are launching a new fact-finding mission.

If you live in a hotel without a kitchen or if you work with families who do – please do fill in our survey – your information will be private and you will be anonymous.

Let’s work together to make sure that soon No Child is in a Home Without a Kitchen.



Vision, Mission, Values

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We were founded on togetherness, listening, love and unconditional positive regard – but we have never really put the way that we work all together in one place and agreed on our way of doing things, until now!

At the end of November we got together with mums, minis, staff, volunteers, trustees to talk through what is most important to us, how we want to our charity to run, and how we want to treat ourselves and each other.

We had such an incredible afternoon of laughter, tears, serious discussions and silly anecdotes for example ‘I first came to the project when Jane approached me in the playground and gave me some tomatoes!’.

Our minis scribbled on every available note, and we slowly came to an agreement about our vision mission and values while celebrating our community and each other. All of this was expertly, lovingly, and innovatively facilitated by our amazing friends at Just Ideas who, honestly make the almost impossible (wrangling all of us) look effortless.



Vision

Powerful mums building a world of equity, opportunity and kindness in which all our children thrive

Mission


 The Magpie Project provides mums and minis – together – with emotional and social support and the essentials they need at all stages of their journeys towards secure status, suitable homes and good health.

Values


Play, acceptance, trust, love, endurance, hope, and joy.

We do this:
Under one roof, where play is centred, information flows, and the whole person matters.

Through building relationships of trust and community where each Magpie Mums’ and minis’ voice is heard

By speaking up for equitable access to health, housing, play and learning opportunities for mums and minis suffering under the hostile immigration environment.

Campaign update

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So it turns out that making a noise works!

Our Rights Experience Advocacy Change group (REACH) team made up of mums who are experiencing the issues we are speaking up on – has been campaigning to stop children being housed without a kitchen for around a year now….

There are two main types of family this affects:

1. those housed by the home office in hotels that have not cooking or food storge facilities and are pre-catered.

2. those who are housed by the local authority in hotels with no cooking facilities who have to rely on takeaways and pre-packaged food for every meal.

In the past year or so we have had monthly meetings hosted by the Public Health team to tackle issues at home office hotels around food quality, alternative sources of meals, etc. The Public Health Team have done great work on the guidelines for hotel meals, toddler meals in hotels, and have already enforced a change of caterer in one of the hotels in Newham due to failing food hygiene inspections.

We have also met regularly with housing on the issue of families that they have placed in hotels under emergency provision – some for longer than the six week legal limit without kitchens. There we have seen extraordinary change. Last week they reported that:

Newham Council have reduced hotel/B&B placements by 80% on past year.

76 families in hotel/B&B down from 337 beginning of August 2023.

Newham also used HSF funds to support community warm spaces and kitchens, as well as giving some vouchers for families in hotels placed by them at Christmas.

Newham Council have reduced hotel/B&B placements by 80% on past year.

76 families in hotel/B&B down from 337 beginning of August 2023.


Changing the practice of the Home Office will be hard, but we are also part of a task and finish group bringing together other interested parties including Sustain the food charity and other charity partners hosted by the great anti-child poverty group 4 in 10.

We have had public support from the Mayor of Newham and our local MP Stephen Timms. Deputy London Mayors – Tom Copley (Housing) and Joanna McCartney (families and children) have visited and offered support.

Our three goals are:

1. immediate relief locally for families – we are well on the way,
2. no child in hotel for longer than the legal limit of six weeks (and wouldn’t it be amazing if the legal limit also applied to home office accommodation!),
3. no children without ktchens at all.

We are new to this change work, so if you can help – please get in touch.

Join us! Let’s get this done!

Observing Ramadan in a hotel without a kitchen……..

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Mama R lets us know how difficult the holy month of Ramadan was to live through while being accommodated in a hotel without cooking facilities.

Mama R found herself and her family in a hotel in Romford during the holy month last year. Fasting from dawn to dusk, obviously means preparing and eating meals at times which are not convenient for restaurants or shops. The family were not allowed to store any food in their hotel room at all. This created an impossible situation.

Please understand that nothing has changed since last year – so many of our beautiful Muslim families will be facing this exact set of circumstances for the next month.

Others, living in home office provided contingency hotels will not be offered a hot IFTAR meal all month, instead they will have sandwiches left for them to eat at the time of breaking their fast.

We believe that everyone has a human right to be able to undertake their religious observance unhindered. For hundreds this holy month – their housing or home office accommodatio will make it impossible.


‘The thing I suffered most from was the difficulty of finding restaurants for halal food.’

Mama R

As there is no way for our families, to cook or store food in their hotel rooms. Each meal must be bought pre-prepared outside on the day. The financi8al expense incurred can reach an additional £200 a week, but on top of that – for our muslim families placed in areas without a significant Muslim population – that means that culturally and religiously appropriate pre-prepared or takeaway food is hard to come by.


‘The hotel was in the Romford area. Restaurants closed early and breaking our fast during Ramadan was late.

It was forbidden to take food to the rooms.

Mama R.

This meant that the whole family, including small children had to leave their ‘home’ to eat each meal.

. We had to eat outside’ she says.

‘We would go out to Tesco. As that was the only store that is open [at that time of night] to buy cheese and toast, and this is how we break our fast after a long day of fasting.

Mama R.
Breaking a fast in the middle of the night while living in a hotel means having to go to a 24 hour superstore and then eating outside the home.



‘At that time, I was breastfeeding my child. I needed a lot of vitamins and protein. This is what I would have gotten if I were at home and cooking during Ramadan.

It was a very difficult experience. I feel sad when I remember it.’

Mama R.

To make sure that families won’t have to face another Ramadan like this – please sign and share our petition to make sure no children are housed without a kitchen. Just clicking below.

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Looking Back on Our Summer Party!

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Every year we organise a summer party to celebrate all we’ve achieved in the last year and most importantly all our lovely mums and minis. This is a final hurrah before we then close for August.  At The Magpie Project, as part of our trauma-informed ethos, we ensure that the spaces we create are safe, so that mums and minis are free to relax, bond, and have fun together.

The summer party is a time and place for us all to come together, play, eat, and celebrate the year. In the months leading up to it, staff and volunteers are working hard to create interesting, engaging and fun activities for our mums and minis – this looks like henna, glitter tattoos, lucky dip, flag decorating, as well as a ‘our year at the magpie project’ gallery wall!

For the summer party, we go all out – taking over Forest Lane Park to house our stalls and entertainment stage. Stalls this year comprised of the amazing Kay Rowe Nursey and Children’s Centre, Games, Crafts, and Merch. Our Entertainment had Bubbles, London Rhymes singing, and Discover Story. This year we made school-style lunches for minis, and had local family owned restaurant Aromas create delicious Halal Meat and Vegan plates for mums and guests.

Despite the rain, our mums were not deterred, and came dressed to the nines to play and enjoy delicious food with Magpie Mums and staff. The summer party is also open to all Forest Gate locals, we appreciate your support as it helps us continue the important work we do.

We can’t thank our summer party superstar volunteers and partners enough for always showing up and making the day come rain or shine so special. Special shout-outs to our Food manager, Cat, for making 200 epic school-style lunches for our minis, Aromas for catering the most tasty food (our Mums look forward to eating your meals every year), Kay Rowe for running a stall and all their important work, London Rhymes and Discover for ensuring Mums and Minis have a blast and entertained for hours, and amazing Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz and Trustee Radihika Byron for visiting.

Lastly, we are so thankful for all those we partnered with this year: Newham Nurture, FCA, Black Swan Finance, Enabled Living, Papier, Little Village, Children’s Salon, Hasboro, 52lives, Knitforpeace, Bethany Williams London, Young V&A, Flying Seagull Circus, Forest Gate WI, Tindersticks, Newham Bookshop, Clapton CFC, Astoria Fire and Security, Praxis, Shelter, Westfield Stratford London, Discover Story Centre, Forest Gate WI, Bookstart, Lush, Number 8 Forest Gate, City Harvest, Health Visitors, Newham Public Health Team, Morris and Co. Architects, Laura Jackson, Irons Foodbank, UCL, Louise Klarnet, Forest Gate Community Garden, London Rhymes, Bancroft Rugby Club, Craft Council, UEL, RAMFEL, Project 17, Maternity Action, Bonny Downs, Newham Food Alliance, Newham Children Centre’s particularly Kay Rowe Nursey, Perinatal Mental Health Team, Acorn Midwives Team at Newham, Alternatives Trust, Museum of Homelessness, Hestia, Ashiana Network, LBWP, Care4Calais, The Unity Project, Tower Hamlets Law Centre, Bethany Prince at Early Notifications / CNDS, Streetwise Opera, Just Life, Stephen Timms MP, Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz, The Newham Community, Gainsborough Quilters, and our play and formfilling volunteers, drivers, community members who make up hampers for our families every christmas.

You are the village it takes to raise our children, and e couldn’t make the impact we do, without all of you!

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Its Pool Party Week at the Magpie Project!

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Each week, our play sessions have a theme guiding our activities and learning. Our themes range from animals and mud play, to seasonal celebrations like Eid or Christmas. This week we celebrated the beginning of summer with our Pool Party theme. We can always count on our amazing Play Lead to come up with the most elaborate ideas and ingenuous ways to explore the themes; creating activities that foster learning, connection, and fun for our mums and minis.

This week activities included smoothie making and splashing around in paddling pools. Inside our centre mums and minis got to try all different fun combinations of fruit and even some spinach to create delicious, healthy, and cooling smoothies. Whilst outside, an assortment of paddling pools were set out on a blue tarp, creating an epic pool and splash zone. The carpark disappeared behind some tropical island themed shower curtains hanging between two trees. Chairs were positioned as sun-loungers, and voila – we were no longer in sunshine and showers UK, but on an idyllic island filled with children’s joy! Our minis had so much fun splashing around, and dipping different objects into the water – what would sink and what would swim?!
A special thanks to our lovely donators, allowing us to provide swimsuits for any children who wanted to take a dip.

Later in the afternoon, our wonderful partners at Tinder Sticks did a workshop teaching our mums and minis all about birds and nest building. They also taught natural bracelet making, and plant artwork – checkout some of our minis creations below:

No matter what mums and minis have experienced in the past, or what they are facing everyday under the UK’s hostile environment, we at the Magpie Project firmly believe #allourchildren deserve to experience safety, love, and joy. Play, including pool parties, is the ultimate act of resistance!

Epic co-design = Young V&A x Bethany Williams x The Magpie Project

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“‘Our collaboration with Bethany Williams London has been the most beautiful, generous and creative thing that we could have ever dreamt of. It has got the voice of our mums and minis in to places we would never dream of – the catwalks of London Fashion Week, the pages of Vogue, the Design Museum, and now the permanent collection of the Young V&A. Graphics were created in collaboration with artist Melissa Kitty Jarram in the depth of lockdown through zoom meetings where mums and minis drew each other. You can see their likenesses in the fabrics” – Jane Williams, CEO and Founder of The Magpie Project

This weekend the newly re-named Young V&A (previously the Museum of Childhood) opened its doors to the public, boasting refreshed collections and displays. The Young V&A is a free national museum located in Bethnal Green with displays, collections, and interactive spaces, co-designed with children and young people, that explore the creativity and experiences of children. This revamped Young V&A titles itself a ‘doing museum’ with sensory playscapes, imagination playground construction zone, performance and story stage and design studio for all ages to get stuck in and enjoy!

The Young V&A showcases 2,000 objects relating to art, design, and performance including two sets of mother and child outfits and lunchbox inspired handbag designed and created by Bethany Williams. Bethany Williams is a fashion designer, humanitarian and artist, creating cutting-edge fashion with ethnical manufacturing and social responsibility. She gives textiles a second chance through refashioning whilst working with social projects and communities to create her garments, as well as giving a percentage of her profits to charity.

For her ‘All Our Children’ Spring/Summer 2021 collection of outfits for mothers and children in collaboration with us at the Magpie Project, Bethany took inspiration from the V&A children’s archives, in particular the skeleton suit and a Boy’s first suit, some of the first garments designed for play. This inspiration is evident in her creation of a tailored skeleton suit and the flounced dresses and pantalettes shown below.

A predominant theme across the Young V&A, Bethany Williams and The Magpie Project is an emphasis on play, creativity, co-creation and design between children and adults. #Allourchildren are all our responsibility; and deserving of environments that foster safety, love, joy and creativity. We hope you visit the Young V&A and enjoy viewing and interacting with our collaboration with Bethany Williams.