It’s been all go for Team MotherShip 💥 Last week we held our 1st creative focus group, with health visitors on thoughts & experiences working with migrant mothers, as part of #BrightBeginnings @MidlandMetUH A fun & super insightful session.Thanks to all who came! @ace_national

🍞 Make friends! 🥖 Learn new skills! Join our 7 week bakery course! If you're local & seeking sanctuary, contact us now & learn how to bake delicious bread with the wonderful women of #Bearwood Community Bakery. @MotherShipProj @BOSSandwell @dorothy_parkes @BearwoodAction

Our canopy is almost finished. Travelling through the Black Country..passing through the hands of so many amazing women. Vintage tablecloth with already embroidered history of an unknown woman, now enriched by many more women who are here in our community. ♥️ @MotherShipProj

Yesterday we had the most beautiful #LittleQueens workshop with @terezabuskova & @byTinaFrancis. This weekend the project culminates, with rehearsals & making in Warley Woods tomorrow, ahead of the final Performance in West Bromwich on Sunday, 2.30-3.30, family workshops 11-12.30

We are very excited to announce two pilot workshops coming up @BearwoodHub where you can learn how to bake bread from our amazing bakery team. Limited places available so please book via https://t.co/syKugqBnp6 to secure your place #WithRefugees #CommunityEnterprise #RealBread

Thank you @GBhatiaDL for supporting #LITTLEQUEENS together with @VisitSandwell @ace_national. Many thanks to @oakhousemuseum for facilitating today's stitching workshop. Please join us together with @MotherShipProj & #Brushstrokes on Sunday 12 of June at 2:30 for a special event.

Little Queens art project gives voice to female refugees and other expatriates who wish to express their identities within the intricate cultural context of their adopted home in the UK, bringing new colour, poetry and hope. A pleasure to be working again with @StudioPolpo

We are empowering WOMEN of Sandwell 🥨♥️🥨 #LITTLEQUEENS @MotherShipProj #Brushstrokes @BAW_Creative @VisitSandwell @CreativeBCuk @ace_national @NickArcherFCDO

Always proud of the incredible women we work with & never more so than in the beautiful bread they make twice weekly @bwcbakery123 at @BearwoodHub. Order fresh bread https://t.co/d0jplet9no until 8am tomorrow & collect from the Hub in the afternoon or The Midland in the evening.

We had the absolute joy today of welcoming @FlyingSeagullUK back to @BearwoodHub for a grand finale to this weeks’ #Juste4Kids wonderful playscheme. Huge thanks to Flying Seagull for bringing so much fun, laughter and play to the Hub today 💫

This afternoon, 1.30-2.30pm outside St Mary’s Church in Bearwood, not only will the women of #MARKit & @bwcbakery123 be selling their gorgeous bread, chelsea buns and hot cross buns, but they will also be unveiling their new textiles collection! #WithRefugees #ShopWithLove

Starting again this week, support for parents of children with additional needs at @bearwoodcommunityhubcic Whether you need help or advice on a specific issue or an understanding ear, Sonya will be at Bearwood Community Hub every Friday 11am-2pm. Just drop in, no need to book.

We're looking for a Production Manager to join our happy crew at we build Abundance, a co-created, natural, inclusive play installation. Quick turnaround, closes noon on 25/3. Please spread the word! https://t.co/BPMwyUKR7J #b2022festival @CreativeBCuk

This International Women’s Day we celebrate each other. All the mother artists, partners, organisations & women we have the joy of working with. You are our heroes today & every day 💪👊🙌❤️ #WithRefugees #EmpoweringWomen #MotherMakers #CommunityEnterprise #CreativePlay #iwd2022

I am thinking of women & children of Ukraine and I am sharing the full video of @Hidden_Mothers https://t.co/3zHlpsVZEO The song used is a Ukrainian song (Letila Zozulya) about love & loss beautifully sung by @KarolinaWegrzy2 💙💛💙💛 @MotherShipProj #IWD2022 #standwithukraine

This week our fabulous MARKit group were back working with Claire Leggett at @BearwoodHub Designing and printing their fabrics for their brand new products…. Coming soon 👀 #WithRefugees #MotherMakers #EmpoweringWomen

In celebration of #InternationalMigrantsDay, yesterday evening we co-hosted a workshop @Brushstrokes66 for refugee families living locally. Led by artist @terezabuskova families decorated traditional vrkoč bread wreaths, making & baking beautiful dough decorations to take home.🧡

All set up and ready for action at St Mary’s Church Bearwood. Lots of fresh bread from @bwcbakery123 and Christmas gifts from @mothership_markit. All profits support projects working with newly arrived women. #WithRefugees #ShopWithLove #ChristmasGiving @BearwoodHub

Beautiful gifts designed & made by our talented MARKit team, set up at @BearwoodHub today, pop in & browse. There are tote bags, cushions, pouches, key rings & more. All items are made by newly arrived mothers & all proceeds go to continuing our work with them. #WithRefugees

Tomorrow is Community Bakery day @BearwoodHub. Get your orders in now folks- last orders 8am...