Norma Johnson

It's now become a social occasion for people, but also a chance to be part of something bigger and more important than themselves.

It's now become a social occasion for people, but also a chance to be part of something bigger and more important than themselves.

how good it was to have somewhere to go after the pandemic.

how good it was to have somewhere to go after the pandemic.

It started off as a fundraising effort... to make this building more accessible. Suddenly it changed shape altogether. People were coming to us and saying how much they enjoyed being part of a project that had a purpose.

It started off as a fundraising effort... to make this building more accessible. Suddenly it changed shape altogether. People were coming to us and saying how much they enjoyed being part of a project that had a purpose.

The next thing it had spiralled, we had three knitting groups coming one evening, two mornings. We were so excited when we had the first hundred squares and then it just launched itself and they were coming from all over and at eight and a half thousand they stopped counting.

The next thing it had spiralled, we had three knitting groups coming one evening, two mornings. We were so excited when we had the first hundred squares and then it just launched itself and they were coming from all over and at eight and a half thousand they stopped counting.

We had one lady in her 90s who doesn't actually come to the building. She was housebound, but her niece brought her knitting down. And one day she ran out of wool. She had no one coming to visit. So on went the coat, and she went out, jumped on a bus, and got wool and got home again. The first time she'd been out on her own for months and months.

We had one lady in her 90s who doesn't actually come to the building. She was housebound, but her niece brought her knitting down. And one day she ran out of wool. She had no one coming to visit. So on went the coat, and she went out, jumped on a bus, and got wool and got home again. The first time she'd been out on her own for months and months.

And this is the kind of story we're hearing all the time.

And this is the kind of story we're hearing all the time.

It's now become a social occasion for people, but also a chance to be part of something bigger and more important than themselves.

how good it was to have somewhere to go after the pandemic.

It started off as a fundraising effort... to make this building more accessible. Suddenly it changed shape altogether. People were coming to us and saying how much they enjoyed being part of a project that had a purpose.

The next thing it had spiralled, we had three knitting groups coming one evening, two mornings. We were so excited when we had the first hundred squares and then it just launched itself and they were coming from all over and at eight and a half thousand they stopped counting.

We had one lady in her 90s who doesn't actually come to the building. She was housebound, but her niece brought her knitting down. And one day she ran out of wool. She had no one coming to visit. So on went the coat, and she went out, jumped on a bus, and got wool and got home again. The first time she'd been out on her own for months and months.

And this is the kind of story we're hearing all the time.