DCI Vera author Ann Cleeves is backing a project to recruit reading coaches across the North-East. The project, which she will talk about in a free online lecture at the University of Sunderland next month, builds on evidence that proves having access to arts and leisure activities has a positive impact on health and wellbeing. Ann said: “We’ll be talking to GPs and asking them to perhaps prescribe people to be members of a reading group and we’re employing reading project workers, who’ll talk with individuals. “We’re hoping it will work best for people with mild mental illness, like depression or anxiety, or people with chronic pain due to something like arthritis or even with life-limiting disease.”
Bespoke glass maker based near Grantham expands business thanks to start-up loan
| Updated: 11:35, 01 February 2021
A Long Bennington glass artist has expanded her business.
Lincolnshire entrepreneur and experienced kiln glass artist, Katie Hinder, has secured a £17,500 start-up loan from First Enterprise â Enterprise Loans to expand her glass-making business and launch a new collection.
Katie has been creating kiln glass pieces since graduating from the University of Sunderland in Architectural Glass in 2007 but wanted to expand her business when she set up her current studio in 2018.
Katie Hinder is an experienced kiln glass artist. (44189473)
Although Katie is an experienced artist, the business loan also helped her to hone her entrepreneurial skills â a side of her business she wasnât as confident about.
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