This week saw our camerados in Bristol University celebrating the 1st birthday of their Public Living Room, around 700 students a day use this space and our caps are doffed to the wonderful folk in the Student Union who have worked so hard to make this a success.
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The Meaning of Life
Camerados attended the Meaning Conference in Brighton in November and took with us a Public Living Room, which we used to decorate the communal part of the conference held in the magnificent Brighton Dome. A collect of sofas, cushions and fairy lights did it’s usual trick of changing a space to allow folk to chat […]
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No one is perfect.
Everything in life seems to be geared towards success, but it is OK to fail sometimes, one of our principles here at Camerados says just that, so remember is is alright to be a bit sh*t.
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The kettle is black.
Everyone likes to think they are doing some good for others, but it’s how we go about it that counts, read on and find out what our founder thinks.
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Captain Camerado!
A new blog from the founder of Camerados, Maff Potts, all about the right kind of kind, what do we mean by it and can we have too much?
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World mental health day
Here at the Association of Camerados we were chuffed to hear that folk did pop up public living rooms for World Mental Health Day, here’s a shout out to Cedarwood Trust, Horncastle School, Bristol University, Sheffield Hallam University and Love Grays….. for highlighting this important issue,
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Mission review!
Yesterday the epic folk on our Council met up in London to talk all things mission, the mission review will be published soon and you’ll be able to see what they had to say, we’ll publish it on here when it’s ready!
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The movement’s first ever newspaper launched
The movement’s first ever newspaper launched last week, its called the “Camerados Chronicle”. It contains stories from around the Camerados movement and by reading each other’s experiences hopefully it brings us closer together. There’s even a puzzle page, a Children’s Art club and features written by Camerados from across the globe. It was produced by […]
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“I’m searching for words…”
I’m searching for words scrabbling about in my head I can’t find them I’ll try the mind game where one word leads to another… teepee dwelling home retreat shelter sanctuary safety place of safety a private space head space …sanctuary feels right the teepee gave me sanctuary an unexpected offering if there […]
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In June, I was asked to listen in on a conference call about a ‘public living room in a box’, not going to lie, I only said yes out of intrigue. The call lasted about 20 minutes, hosted by some folks from Oxford (who seemed pretty excited to talk to us) calling themselves ‘Camerados’. Their […]
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