Participants create cards and connections at The Hub! Participants of Life FUNdamentals at The Hub Maitland have embraced a new activity, Cards and Connection, to create some beautiful individually designed handmade cards. The group created a stock of cards to use for future events and occasions, as well as some cards to send off to some special people in their lives. Cards and Connection was an activity delivered over four weeks in July. It was one of the first activities on offer at The Hub when the [...]

Douglas is enjoying the opportunity to get back into the community! After three months isolating, which included ceasing his attendance at Mai-Wel’s Life FUNdamentals Cessnock, Douglas has returned to face-to-face supports! He was very excited to get back out into the community and engage with locals, of course while social distancing. In Douglas' first community outing he was supported to visit his favourite local businesses and enjoyed lunch at the Hotel Cessnock. Participating in his community is very important to Douglas and he enjoyed reconnecting with other [...]

In this strange, new and restricted world of COVID-19, Life FUNdamentals Cessnock participants have found a way to engage together in a world of their own creation! Taking to the screen and the page, participants have started a Dungeons and Dragons game, which they play together over Zoom. The participants have created characters that have defined personality traits and flaws, their own world view and backgrounds, which the players use to navigate a world designed by the group. In this world they spend time having fun, saving the day [...]