Kernos is delighted to thank the Bures Music Festival committee so much, for the generous donation of £500, from the 2022 festival, to fund therapeutic, creative and play equipment for working with children and young people.
This isn’t the first time they have supported us, and the children we work with, in this way.
Sometimes, young children don’t have the words to express themselves adequately. Equipment such as this therefore gives them the chance to share their feelings.
Play has long been considered the language of children. It is the way in which they explore their experiences and feelings, and integrate themselves with their world. Play gives children the opportunity to display and reveal things, in their own unique way. It can contribute to increasing and maturing a child’s capability to use vocabulary to express themselves.
Art, too, can become a way to look into and communicate thoughts and emotions that seem too complex, or confusing, to articulate by talking, alone. Art is used to encourage self-expression through creativity, for both adults and children. Generally, it can improve emotional well-being and overall life quality.
Here are a few of the items, which have just arrived – and are shown on a new wipe-clean and hard-wearing floor cloth, needed to protect the carpets in the Centre’s counselling rooms – another of the items funded by this donation.
We will update later, as the year progresses.
