The Long Game!
HELLO!
Wow look at that world burn. Y'know what we could do with? SOME EXCELLENT WORK FROM YOUTH MUSIC PARTICIPANTS.
This very weekend starting 12pm on May 9th members and alumni of our Youth Music program are coming together to run an incredible 24 hour gaming livestream in aid of local charity Cornerstone who offer. But why listen to me talk about it when the young people have done such a good job already? Check it out!:
"The Long Game is a 24-hour charity livestream Gameathon that we are organising to raise funding for local homeless charity CORNERSTONE SUPPORTED HOUSING AND COUNSELLING based in Willington, County Durham.
The event takes place online Saturday the 9th of May on Twitch starting at 12 noon until 12 noon Sunday the 10th of May.
The event will consist of many games and many laughs all in the name of a good cause.
It is being organised and hosted by members of Games Night which includes Tom Makepeace, Henry Dawson, Sam Ward-Hardy, Josh Conlon and will include members James Lane, Brendan Hoar and many others.
This effort will take every ounce of our being and energy to make it the most insane 24 hours of our lives!
You can donate funds by clicking on the link to our Go Fund Me Page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-game?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=...
CORNERSTONE SUPPORTED HOUSING AND COUNSELLING
Cornerstone is an independent homelessness charity that runs a joinery workshop and furniture business based in County Durham which is run by those people for whom the charity benefits.
The charity also provides homes, a charity shop ‘Charityshop4U’ in Willington and a shop/community hub ‘The Cracket’ in Hartlepool.
The charity gives every effort to achieving self-sustainability and uses these values to provide an example to the people it serves in their own lives.
The charity supports and houses homeless male and females and also young people who are struggling to connect with the mainstream school system.
Cornerstone set up a Rough Sleeper Assertive Outreach project in Hartlepool last year which links also with the same service in County Durham. The Rough sleeper project heavily supported and operated by volunteers of the Cracket’s drop-in project. The project offers rough sleepers, residents of our supported housing and the local community advice and help on, gaining safe appropriate housing, benefit claims, domestic violence issues and drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Its impact on rough sleeping is huge with dozens housed for the first time in decades and two in paid work within 12 months.
The charity places great importance on our furniture venture’s proactive work with school pupils who are not coping in a traditional classroom environment. We do this because our research found that 95% of the adults joining our emergency homelessness services said that their social isolation began when not thriving within a school.
The alternative education provision for young people is now considered as one of the most innovative and sought-after in the North East.
Charityshop4U was set up in 2016 and is run entirely by volunteers from the community of Greater Willington from Cornertone’s old offices in Willington’s High Street. Its purpose is to provide grants to children and young people where they need to overcome a financial barrier to achieving positive outcomes or themselves. It has so far given out more than £6000 to that end."
In the images attached you'll find a detailed schedule of everything that's planned. It's gonna be incredible. I'll even be DMing a game of Dungeon World! Swords, sorcery and extravagant roleplay storytelling. Unmissable.
It's honestly an honour to work with such incredible young people. The kind of people who look out the window at a world entirely out of their control and say "Ok, how do we make this better for someone?". Entirely unprompted, self-organised and inspired. Outstanding.
Please do head over to the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/589476108324111/?active_tab=about and show some support to incredible young people striving to make direct change in their community. There's a full schedule of games taking place and a lot of opportunities to get involved with something truly special.