NWR 2020 Scrapbook Project
**Notice*** WE ARE PAUSING THE SCRAPBOOKS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THE CO-ORDINATORS HAVE BEEN INFORMED AND WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH GROUPS TO ADVISE WHEN WE CAN CONTINUE.
pause the scrapbooks until further notice and that co-ordinators have been informed and will be in touch when we can continue.
pause the scrapbooks until further notice and that co-ordinators have been informed and will be in touch when we can continue.
The Scrapbook project is part of the Diamond Anniversary celebrations. Please find some information which may answer any questions you may have.
NWR groups have been divided into 8 regions; Central, Eastern, Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and South West plus the independent members. Each Region has a Regional Co-ordinator who will be responsible for all the groups in their area.
They have all been issued with A3 paper and an art carrier for safekeeping the pages in. Each co-ordinator will be responsible for planning a ‘route’ for the scrapbooks between the groups in their area. The plan is that your group will have two weeks in which to complete your entry. Ideally, the scrapbooks will be handed over in person from group to group, where possible, to encourage a feeling of interconnection and of being part of a National Organisation. If not, other ways of forwarding will be worked out.
Please be patient with your co-ordinators who will begin to notify groups of when they will receive the scrapbooks shortly. The number of groups in each region ranges from 32 to 76 so it may be some time before it reaches your group.
What happens when the ‘scrapbook’ reaches your group? You may already be aware that they are not actual books but sheets of A3 paper which will be combined and bound to form books.
- In your turn, the A2 art carrier containing the blank sheets and any completed sheets will be delivered to you.
- Each group should take 2 sheets of the same colour paper and complete it in PORTRAIT style.
- The content is entirely up to your group but try and aim for 50% images and 50% words…. Possibly a link with 1960 and now……Be creative and make it look attractive…….. include e.g. reports, poems, photos, anything you feel reflects your group (but not just ‘we did this’, ‘we did that’). You can choose your own font, size for words and colour of words.
- For ideas see the NWR Pinterest site at…
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/nwrorguk/nwr-uk-2020-scrapbook-project
- The only stipulation is that a one-and-a-half-inch border MUST be left at the edge to be bound. The other three sides should have a 1-inch border, or slightly less as long as nothing overhangs the paper.
- The pages will be in the form of a double page spread and only one side of each piece is to be used. To use both sides could cause a problem with glue seepage etc. When the scrapbooks are ready for binding and completion, the blank sides will be clipped together in some way, but this is not something the groups need to concern themselves with.
- Please ensure your group name is included somewhere on the pages.
- Also, in the A2 carrier will be some A3 plastic wallets. Once your pages are completed, please place them with blank sides together and put them behind previously completed pages. This will enable other groups to have a look without needing to take them out of the wallet and risking tearing them.
- Your co-ordinator will tell you who the ‘scrapbook’ is to be passed on to.
It is anticipated that the project is completed by the end of 2020 and will be available to view at the 2021 Conference. Ultimately it will be presented to The Women’s Library, where our archives are stored.
We hope you will all enjoy filling in your pages and look forward to seeing what NWR means to you!