The Make Bank

During the Covid-19 Lockdown period, Fenner Paper has supported a social project called The Make Bank. It was set up a year ago by Kirsty Thomas, founder of Tom Pigeon, to provide support and materials for disadvantaged school pupils to enable them to pursue creative education and creative careers. Their work is predominantly with senior pupils and they have sent over 200 kits out to young people in the past 12 months.

During the lockdown period The Make Bank have created ‘Mini Kits’ for the UK's most vulnerable primary pupils to help them create and learn at home. The kits have been sent to kids nominated by their teachers who are dealing with poverty, domestic abuse and extreme living conditions.

Kirsty approached us to see if we were able to supply the paper for the packs...

During the lockdown period, Fenner Paper has been open for business running with a skeleton staff. Using our spare time during the day, a team of three of us have hand collated packs of A4 plain white paper, together with 20 sheets of assorted coloured papers and boards.

We collated 250 packs, which will go with drawing and colouring materials to help make the kits for the kids.

We were particularly pleased to be able to help as we normally use our offcut papers to support the St Brides Wayzgoose where last year, we raised £357.00 for the St Bride Foundation. This year's Wayzgoose was due to be held this coming weekend but has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

You can read more about The Make Bank and how YOU can support the project here: https://www.themakebank.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.05.2020

Build by Tom Pigeon

Tom Pigeon is a creative studio founded by Pete and Kirsty Thomas in 2014. They met and started working as designers in the early 1990’s and since then have worked across design disciplines. As Tom Pigeon they design simple things for people to enjoy including prints, jewellery and stationery. 

This is a print, titled 'Build' that they have designed for Social Bite Village - a development in Edinburgh which gives homeless people somewhere to live and all the support they need to get back to work and into long-term accommodation.

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All profits from this limited edition screen print inspired by the amazing space and remarkable work of Social Bite Village will be donated to the charity. ‘Build’ celebrates both the physical construction of this remarkable community and its work to encourage new and positive futures for its homeless residents. 

http://social-bite.co.uk/the-social-bite-village/

The size of each print is A2 (594x420mm) and is hand-pulled using waterbased inks at Harvey Lloyd Screenprinting and is a limited edition of 100 signed, numbered and embossed prints. Below show the detail of the embossing...

Printed in three colours on our Matrisse 200gsm which we donated for this project. It is beautifully printed with fantastic register and detail as you can see from the image below...

If you would like one of these 100 limited edition prints, you can buy one by following the link here:
https://www.tompigeon.com/collections/new-prints/products/build

http://social-bite.co.uk/the-social-bite-village/
https://www.tompigeon.com/
http://harveylloydscreens.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.12.2018