project aim:

This project explores a collaboration with a children’s charity local to Newcastle Upon Tyne by the name of Kids Kabin. They focus on providing children from disadvantaged communities, mainly within the North East, with opportunities and facilities that encourage their empowerment, creativity, and talents, and allow them to garner new skills and an enhanced sense of self to bring about positive change within their local communities and regenerate them.

Kids Kabin’s main ask was to enhance and supplement their current methods of communications through a number of channels in order to attract more support and recognition for their impact as a charity.

One of the main challenges they were hoping to tackle was to find innovative, exciting, and accessible methods of communicating through which the participating children could share their stories and voices and relay their experiences at the charity. Additionally, they wanted to find ways to stand out in the eyes of funding bodies and other stakeholders and effectively share and promote the outcomes and impacts the charity has had and continues to have.

AREAS OF WORK:

- Workshop Design

- Illustration

- Data Visualisation

additional outcomes:

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response:

As a response my aim was to create a tool that would allow children to communicate their feedback and reflections on their experiences at Kids Kabin, in addition to some other insights.

This “Kids Kabin Adventure Journal”, is essentially a personalised folder or booklet that will be available to every member and will be built over the course of their time at the charity.

This would be implemented through several short activities that will prompt the children to not only reflect and communicate about their experience, but also help them build their identity, strengthen their confidence and self-esteem, and garner skills in mindfulness and understanding their emotions. It will also be a great tool to showcase to parents the progress and improvement their kids have gone through over their time there, as well as allowing the organisation to have a standardised method of gathering the stories and feedback they need to communicate with other stakeholders.

I additionally facilitated the implementation of a new digital workshop for the children which introduced them to an animation software in which they'd create personalised characters and short clips based on scenes and stories from their own imaginations.

I later put to use the characters created by the children to create a new visual language to be used by the charity on touch-points such as annual reports, online communications, and data presentations.