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Graham: it started with a blank

November 18, 2016

  I teach the lads now to make wood products, bowls, plates, chopping boards, mirrors, anything out of timber really, candle holders… clocks, we make clocks… Rodney has made a bowl as well, he loved it… he got on really well with it… I’ve done loads now; I was never interested in wood turning [before], … More Graham: it started with a blank

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Matthew: what’s cooking

November 15, 2016

I never used to like cooking did I? Me and the project manager had many like falling outs about, well only about three, over the cooking… because I’ve always said I’m not here to cook… but actually [more recently] I’ve quite enjoyed it… you know I’ve quite enjoyed it…  I went through a stage, and … More Matthew: what’s cooking

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  • Kara says: “At LandWorks I feel I’m understood. I keep going back to the word ‘acceptance’, so I’ve accepted who I am, and I feel I’ve just been so lucky to be part of it all”
  • Judah says: “…coming to LandWorks helps coz it keeps me busy, and then by the time I get home I’m too tired to even think about doing anything else”
  • Jax says: “I don’t wanna leave LandWorks, which I actually don’t, but at the same time I’m glad I’m leaving because now I’ve got a life that I can work towards…”
  • Nanda says: “LandWorks… I tend to always mention the unconditional positive regard because I think that’s like a unique and special part of it”
  • Bobby says: ‘Being at LandWorks… it’s a social one innit […] when you’re trying to change your life around, you’ve fucked off all your mates so you can’t pick up the phone…”
  • Doris says: “It’s like a unit. It’s not a family unit because it’s not like that at all. It’s like everyone’s linked together.”
  • Graham says: “LandWorks works because of trust going both ways. It works because if we say we’re gonna do something we will do it…”
  • Leo says:” I don’t feel judged, you know… there’s no hierarchy system here…”
  • Gareth says: “This place does help me. It gives me a lot to think about. It just gets my mind off the crap that’s going on out there…”
  • Jax says: “I like being at LandWorks coz I feel like it’s my safe space.”
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