Cam and Dursley Community awash with 2600 silk screen Jubilee Flags!

The Great Jubilee Flag Project!

There’s still time to make your flag! Workshops coming up Monday 30th May and Wednesday 1st June - see below!

A resident of Henlow Court holds up her screen printed flag

Having a go at screen printing!

GL11 Community Hub and Cam and Dursley Creatives have come together to create an amazing Jubilee Project for the whole community to enjoy.

Abi Nicol, Create Gloucestershire’s Catalyst for Cam and Dursley has been amazed by the reaction from so many groups, individuals and nine local schools, having created over 2,600 flags!

Local artists Deb Brooks and Andy Kinnear then taught the teachers, TAs and community leaders how to print using the silkscreen process.

46 local women cut and sewed 30m rolls of ripstop nylon. Other volunteers supported with packing and delivery of the flag kits to the schools and local groups; this included:

Rednock School

Dursley Primary

Peak Academy

Cam Hopton School

Cam Everlands School

Cam Woodfields Infants

Cam Woodfields Juniors

The Nest Pre-School

Slimbridge Primary School

Henlow Court

Hidden Illness Group

Dursley Scouts

Quarry Collective

Cam 1st Squirrels Scouts

Dursley Town Council

Cam Parish Council 

to name just a few!

 Audrey Harris of GL11 Community Hub added

‘ We have also loved working with the wider community through our Pop-Up Flag printing sessions. We have been under the Market Place in Dursley and The Quarry Chapel as well as here at our hub. We have created a legacy from the Jubilee grant. Rednock School will now have 14 screen kits that can be used to teach a whole class to print and local primary schools and groups will be able to borrow the kits to create pictures, t-shirts etc. We hope we have sparked some budding printmakers!’

Elaine Cook from Cam Everlands School has had great fun with the entire school printing the giant flags.

‘Our TAs were amazing and to see the joy from our children when taking part has been wonderful. One child declared he had made magic when he printed his flag! We will use the flags as part of our school celebrations and each pupil will be able to take their flag home ready for the Jubilee weekend.’

Abi wants to thank everyone involved in making this project such a success. Cam and Dursley Creatives want to bring arts to everyone everyday. We are always looking at innovative ways to engage with the community and use creativity in surprising ways! We are now seeing flags springing up around the town and seeing the children all having fun with them has been really special!