Community Engagement

Inspired by the United Mothers logo design, the Hands of Friendship Tree activity has great potential for finding friends around Thanet of all colours and textures. Multicultural and intergenerational, its success has been in its simplicity.

The Hands Of Friendship Tree tours the Isle of Thanet gathering our ideas of what friendship means to us. Each person creates their own hand, decorating with stickers, words, poems and pictures, and blossoming the tree into a fully multicoloured Tree of Friendship extending hands of kindness within the community.

So far the Hands of Friendship Tree has appeared at school Summer and Winter fairs, Margate Rocks Against Racism, the Windmill Community Gardens Strawberry Fair, a local refuge for trafficked women and St Phillips Church for their Holiday at Home week.

Margate Power Of Women Festival 2019