Entries by Seema
Slough digital ambassadors
Thanks to a new stream of funding, we were able to deliver a package of IT-based learning to help people improve their life skills. This had never been delivered before by Apna Virsa, but the pandemic had seen so many members of our community suffer as a result of being stuck at home, without a […]
Every Picture Tells a Story
Continuing our work to promote well being and mental health off the back of the pandemic, we launched an online photo-sharing project, which ran through July and August, 2021. “Every Picture Tells a Story,” set out to share the stories of people’s favourite or deepest-held photos, focusing on the story behind them. This was to […]
The Brain-teasers quiz series
During June and July, 2021 we ran a fun series of online quiz videos for people to challenge themselves with. Called Brain-teasers, the series was presented by our yoga teacher Kiran’s eight-year-old son, Dom. Every week, people were given a new general-knowledge brain-teaser with three clues to help them guess it. Participants could leave their […]
Photography Walking Club: #AVwalkingphotos
From February to May, 2021 we ran the Photography Walking Club – where we encouraged our communities to focus on a fun goal, whilst continuing to be healthy and active during the pandemic. The club had been launched off the back of our successful winter 2020 campaign, 30 Minutes for 30 Days, where participants had […]
Fit 4 Yoga challenge: #fit4yogaAV
During February and March, 2021 we ran the Fit 4 Yoga challenge to enable people to learn a different yoga move every week from one of our experts. The project was for anyone who wanted to have a go, and there was also a chance to win a prize if they did a yoga move particularly […]
30 minutes for 30 days walking challenge
In a bid to keep the over-50s fit and healthy during the pandemic, whilst giving them a goal to aim for, we ran a tremendously successful walking campaign, 30 minutes for 30 days, between October and November 2020. First off, we had more than 200 sign ups from the communities of Slough, South Bucks and […]
Older People’s Day 2020
On October 1, 2020 we staged the first Older People’s Day online for Slough, bringing voluntary sector groups together so our town’s seniors wouldn’t miss out. For the past 13 years Slough Senior Citizens Group has hosted the event in person, but was unable to do so this time around due to the coronavirus restrictions. […]
#Cake4Caring online event
To celebrate those special ones in our lives who’d made the national lockdown a little easier, we staged a remote cake-baking event in August 2020. Using the hashtag #Cake4Caring, we encouraged people on our social media accounts to bake a cake from home for their special person. Once done, they had to upload a picture […]
#OneSlough Covid-19 information campaign
From July 2020 we led and fronted a public information campaign on behalf of the voluntary sector to support and issue coronavirus safety messages. The #OneSlough project was geared towards increasing awareness among Slough’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities of Covid-19 symptoms and how they can stay safe. This followed a government report […]
