Our stories

Take a look at the stories that have been collected – and get inspiration to submit your own! Find out more about this project

Lockdown On a Dull Day

It’s a cold and wet morning, I’d put away the porridge and my long sleeve jumpers thinking summer was here, what a shock to the system to fi...

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The Last Night For Clapping

Today is my bin emptying day and I wondered how they could practice self isolating....until I realised a car follows the wagon, it takes the extra worker so they are not all in the cab of the wagon

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Michael’s Story

Sent via Teacher – Lisa Green, Northwood Community Primary

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Gillian’s Story

I now feel I am controlling my anxiety to some degree and surviving Covid has proven I am strong, and the fear of something can actually be worse than the thing itself.

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Message From a Community Curator

Message From a Community Curator

At the start of Lockdown, I had just begun to work on an embroidered panel for a display in the theatre. Materials for the panel were provid...

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Stories From Beyond the Door

Stories from beyond the Door, is the new and adapted online incarnation of what has been a successful creative writing project since 2017, ‘...

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Me, Covid, and Helping my Community

Me, Covid, and Helping my Community

The community of Stockbridge Village and the whole of Knowsley have rallied around with amazing strength, commitment, and hard work. The imp...

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Laila’s Story

You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today

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My Furlough Experience

My Furlough Experience

This is my Corona story. I remember watching the News, the story about those people coming home from China and being taken on a coach to Arr...

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Green Fingers

Green Fingers

We were given seedlings from Incredible Edible Knowsley, we had tomatoes, cucumber, sweet pea and fennel plants dropped off. Sebastian who i...

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Big Help

Big Help

In 2016, following a period of sever depression, something that I now know has blighted my life from childhood, I mustered the effort to pos...

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