Discover your inner artist by taking part in ourNEST

Havering Changing is thrilled to support The NO Collective with their new project, ourNEST, which is highlighting the work of great local artists and helping residents find inspiration from their homes and towns. 

Over the past week, hundreds of ‘Home Inside-Out’ creativity guides have been hand-delivered to Havering residents to help locals spruce up their homes and explore their local neighbourhoods through new ‘post-lockdown’ eyes.

Created by architecture studio WSMS, this guide gives handy tips to create inspired spaces within your home without having to spend any money, and offers fantastic family ideas of how to get out and about to explore your town as an ‘Urban Investigator’.

You can access the ‘Home Inside-Out’ guide for free online, pick up a copy at The Mercury in Romford or by post if you are shielding via the Havering Volunteer Centre’s heroes. There is also a virtual gallery and free creative resources for fun things to do on the projects webpage: www.nocollective.co.uk/ourNEST

The NO Collective is an arts organisation based in Romford led by and for artists and creatives whose projects aim to provide opportunities for emerging artists and talented creatives, whilst teaching people about the joy of art through interactive workshops and outreach programmes.

“You may have seen a 6ft Bird House being erected outside the ASDA queue in The Mercury in Romford” says Natalie, co-founder of the arts collective and local resident. “We are now asking local people from Harold Hill, Rainham, Orchard Village and Romford to apply for a free art kit to take part in embellishing it’s windows with their favourite viewpoints, to make this ‘Bird House’ our home!”.

If you live in Harold Hill, Romford, Orchard Village and Rainham you can apply for a free ‘Bird Box’ which will be posted to you and contain all of the materials needed to create a ‘window’ for our community Bird House.

To get involved, please contact: info@nocollective.co.uk , sign up on The NO Collective webpage or call 01708 733620.