Wearpeace is an exciting project as part of ‘Guns into Goods’, by the University of Salford in partnership with CARISMA and Greater Manchester Police and involving several schools and colleges. The aim is to create a range of clothing and accessories under the Wearpeace label that can be sold locally, nationally and internationally to [...]

Posted on Jun 03.10 to Resource, Schools, design, fashion, partnership   

The WearPeace project stems from an existing relationship between the School of Art and Design, CARISMA (Community Alliance for Renewal Inner South Manchester Area) and the Police’s Xcalibre Task force looking at ways to change people’s perceptions and attitudes towards guns.
The aim of the WearPeace Project is to create a range of clothing and accessories [...]

Posted on Feb 26.10 to Resource, Schools, design, fashion, partnership   

Watch out for ideas, links, poems, quotes, all sorts of stuff to do with peace that you can use in schools, youth groups, services, wherever for a PeaceWeek event. These will be added here in the New Year.
Also… we would like to have YOUR creativity featured here. Send ideas or links here.

Posted on Dec 17.09 to Resource   

A new resource for use in schools, colleges and youth clubs is available from Carisma for free loan. It is a DVD of a TV programme called ‘Teenage Trouble’ which looks at how young people are unfairly perceived in our society. It examines how media ‘bad news’ stories about the minority of young people who [...]

Posted on Feb 28.08 to Resource, Schools, Young People