Freestyle community
Projects CIC
Supporting communities across Teesside to flourish.
About Us
FreeStyle Community Projects CIC is a community development organisation. Our evolutionary purpose is to work with individuals and communities seeking transformation in Teesside. We search for connection to grow positive, holistic community.
We sense that a better world is waiting for us, so we experiment with creative spaces and bold actions to realise it. FreeStyle is an ecosystem of many projects. Each community-led and with their own relationships to the rest of the organisation.
Community Organising
Creativity and Arts
Hosting and Facilitation
Creating Social Infrastructure
Our Projects
We work across a wide variety of areas, all under the ethos of building stronger community connections and improving social infrastructure that can support Teesside’s communities to thrive.
Rediscovering our neighbourhoods
A collaborative art project
Creative wellbeing for happiness
Urban Rebirth
alleyway makeovers
Paradox
hosting powerful conversations
Deep Routes
shared learning about social change
agenda free social spaces
Sharecycle & Boro Bricks
A lending library of useful items
The Exchange
a community hub in central boro
Poverty Truth Comission
nothing about us, without us, is for us
Meet the team
Athene Wherrett
I host our community venue, The Exchange and co-host various projects from there such as the Public Living Rooms. I also write most of our policies. When not writing policies.
I may be found walking my dog, building a massive space empire or smashing weights out at the gym - not all at the same time.
Emily Treadgold
I love creating event spaces and opportunities for people to meet up and collaborate/ support/ learn from each other and share resources.
I love to look after all my house plants and making crafts with my hands like knitting, macrame and origami.
Andy Falconer
A world of connection and human flourishing is within our grasp. I love experimenting with interesting ways of making space for this in Teesside. You'll find me playing with big ideas, tinkering with community transformation and building bridges between it all.
To rest my brain I find beauty in nature.
Sarah Falconer
I love all things creative and can calm, excite or inspire people of all ages with art and crafts! My passion is to show the benefits of creativity for wellbeing.
I'm a messy person with a million ideas but I also love paperwork, record keeping and doing things properly.
Bobbie Bailey
I consult on various ways to incorporate placemaking principles across Freestyle’s projects that help to regenerate underused and unloved public spaces by transforming them in to unique places communities can be proud of.
When i'm not imagining up new worlds you'll find me wandering the streets looking for the next hidden Teesside gem.
Exchange Community Hub
A retail unit transformed into a community hub for a wide range of community-led activities.
Community Organising
People powered change through practical actions
Urban Rebirth
Public space activation, urban regeneration and community-led placemaking interventions.
Out&About
Holistic wellbeing resource using maps and events to highlight community assets and heritage.
Paradox
Hosting powerful conversations around the big questions that matter to the people of Teesside.
Arts
Mindful art sessions in different locations around Middlesbrough.
Listen and Create for Happiness
A safe space where you will always be listened to. Learn researched techniques to improve happiness and wellbeing whilst exploring creative skills and making art pieces to treasure.
Mindful Doodle
A mid-week online Mindful Doodling session. Learn to switch off and relax whilst making beautiful art using easy to learn patterns.
Family Craft Sessions
Try out crafts and creatively build with lego, with refreshments included. 10am-2pm every Saturday at The Exchange, Hill Street Centre.
Hosting
Using our skills to host conversations that really matter and sharing tools to help others do the same.
Deep Routes
Learning communities and sessions around social transformation and inner growth.
Commissioned Research
Working with partners to implement systems change in the wider world.
Work with us
Freestyle Community Projects CIC supports communities across Teesside to flourish. From Public Living Rooms to mindful art sessions we have developed a diverse range of projects that help Teesside thrive.
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