WHAT THEY DO: Little Green Pig is a creative writing and mentoring charity, based in Brighton and Hove.They have worked with thousands of young people using creative writing to build confidence, communication and literacy skills. This in turn improves life chances.
They bring together writers, artists and highly trained volunteers to nurture the writing talent in every child with serious impact and high quality results from bespoke story books to televised soap operas.
WHY WE LOVE THEM: They believe in the power
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of the imagination and that transformative things happen when you pick up a pen and share your story.
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SM #GOODTEES: Every time you buy one of our #GoodTees we donate £15 per sweatshirt and £10 per T-shirt to charity.
SM DONATIONS: As of Jan 2017, we’ve now donated over £515K to our chosen charities, and of that, £10,835 has gone directly to Little Green Pig!
SM SUPPORTS: Our above donations have been spent on the following projects: Workshops both in and out of schools to local young people age seven to 18, giving
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them the space and time to get creative with writing in all its forms.
Little Green Pig SAYS: ” We are thrilled to be partnering with Selfish Mother. Their commitment to supporting all these wonderful charities is inspiring, and we love how they have made such covetable products which do good, as well as looking great.
The Making it Up range is a perfect reflection of what we do at Little Green Pig; we believe in trusting your instincts. It’s also how we feel about parenting: 3 out of 4 of our team are busy working mums and we know that
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having kids is all about taking each day as it comes. We can’t wait to see people embracing that spirit with these tees.
Much like the Selfish Mother blogzine, Little Green Pig encourages writing from all kinds of people, regardless of their background, experience or circumstances. And much like the people who read Selfish Mother and buy their products, we love being part of an honest, supportive and nurturing community.
Thank you to the SM team and everyone who, like us, believes in making it up as you go along. ”
” With the support of
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SELFISH MOTHER, we are able to reach more young people than ever before. When you buy something gorgeous from the Mother Shop, you are helping a new generation of writers to find their voices. ”
WHAT THEY DO: Little Green Pig is a creative writing and mentoring charity, based in Brighton and Hove.They have worked with thousands of young people using creative writing to build confidence, communication and literacy skills. This in turn improves life chances.
They bring together writers, artists and highly trained volunteers to nurture the writing talent in every child with serious impact and high quality results from bespoke story books to televised soap operas.
WHY WE LOVE THEM: They believe in the power of the imagination and that transformative things happen when you pick up a pen and share your story.
WATCH:
SM #GOODTEES: Every time you buy one of our #GoodTees we donate £15 per sweatshirt and £10 per T-shirt to charity.
SM DONATIONS: As of Jan 2017, we’ve now donated over £515K to our chosen charities, and of that, £10,835 has gone directly to Little Green Pig!
SM SUPPORTS: Our above donations have been spent on the following projects: Workshops both in and out of schools to local young people age seven to 18, giving them the space and time to get creative with writing in all its forms.
Little Green Pig SAYS: ” We are thrilled to be partnering with Selfish Mother. Their commitment to supporting all these wonderful charities is inspiring, and we love how they have made such covetable products which do good, as well as looking great.
The Making it Up range is a perfect reflection of what we do at Little Green Pig; we believe in trusting your instincts. It’s also how we feel about parenting: 3 out of 4 of our team are busy working mums and we know that having kids is all about taking each day as it comes. We can’t wait to see people embracing that spirit with these tees.
Much like the Selfish Mother blogzine, Little Green Pig encourages writing from all kinds of people, regardless of their background, experience or circumstances.And much like the people who read Selfish Mother and buy their products, we love being part of an honest, supportive and nurturing community.
Thank you to the SM team and everyone who, like us, believes in making it up as you go along. ”
” With the support of SELFISH MOTHER, we are able to reach more young people than ever before. When you buy something gorgeous from the Mother Shop, you are helping a new generation of writers to find their voices. “
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Selfish Mother blogzine is a platform for likeminded women created by journalist Molly Gunn in 2013. We have a clothing store called Selfish Mother Shop, which is where we sell our iconic tees and sweatshirts, eg MOTHER and WINGING IT 🙂 We’re inclusive, not exclusive and we’d love you to get involved. Writing for Selfish Mother is free and easy… it takes 1 minute to join! You’ll be able to share posts and events immediately… we can’t wait to hear what you have to say.