Use your design skills to create monthly printed packs for our heartwarming intergenerational penpal scheme, linking children and care homes through creative exchanges.
Crafting Connections is a reimagined penpal scheme that tackles loneliness by creating joyful, meaningful friendships across generations.
This life-changing programme is an arts & crafts exchange that pairs children with older adults in care settings. Each month, we provide participants with a crafting pack, and then both sides get to work on creating something that will delight and surprise their pen pal. The resulting friendships make for happier, kinder children and proud, connected older people.
We are looking for a designer to create the artwork for the monthly packs. The children's pack is six sides of A4, with a slightly amended four-sided version for care homes. The packs all follow an already-established template; your job will be to tailor each one to that particular month's theme, sourcing accompanying stock illustration and inserting the copy and photos we provide.
You can work on a month-by-month basis, or we can provide the bulk of the content in 3 month batches for you to work on all at once (we'll just need a bit of your time each month to add the remaining time-sensitive parts in).
You'll work with our Content & Communications Manager, who will provide full briefs, templates and content.
Skilled in graphic design and layout for printed materials
Ability to source appropriate accompanying illustration from stock image sources
Excellent at keeping to deadlines and delivering high-quality work
Your work will facilitate the ongoing friendships of hundreds of children and older adults in care homes every month, directly reducing loneliness and spreading kindness.
In the words of one care home staff member: "Our residents love it, they look forward to getting their packs monthly, but it's not just about the artwork, it's about the friendships they've built up. It sometimes brings a tear to the eye when you see how the friendships are going".
