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Home is where the Art is! www.together2012.org.ukAt Together! 2012 CIC we provide free online creative spaces where, just for an hour at a time, we can all learn and participate equally from home. Our Clubs programme brings together Disabled people with different backgrounds, life experiences and impairments to participate in activities that focus on what we all have in common. Our Events programme highlights a particular aspect of Disabled people’s lives and/or a particular community, welcoming everyone as audience members. We also invite everyone to join in from home with the activities that we share on our website and social media, including the Kitchen Carnival and our weekly poetry theme and still life image.

Together! 2012 CIC is rooted in the main London 2012 Paralympic Host Borough of Newham and is creating an ongoing cultural Legacy, led by Disabled artists under the artistic directorship of international artist Dr Ju Gosling aka ju90. Follow us on Bluesky or Instagram for updates or subscribe to our mailing list. We are also on Facebook (Together 2012 CIC). Follow the Menu links above for lots more information and activities, including About Us for our history and policies.

Together! 2012 CIC has already received significant recognition for our work, winning the first Rotary Stratford East London Community Heroes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Cohesion in June 2019 and being shortlisted again in 2021. We have also been Newham’s Green Business of the Year in 2018 and shortlisted again in 2021. We are proud to have been voted East London Community Heroes 2022 for ‘Outstanding Initiative in Art and Culture’.  Click here to watch a recording of our’10 years and more than 2012 events later’ lunchtime event on 16 June for Newham Heritage Month 2022 and find out more about our history and our work.

We also run the Together! 2012 Consultancy led by multi-gold medal-winning Paralympian Robin Surgeoner MBE, empowering organisations of all sizes to be Inclusion Confident as well as delivering inclusive events and activities on clients’ behalf. ‘Together’ is our philosophy, and we work with a wide range of local and national partners whose support has made our progress possible (see below for partners’ logos and links).

Photograph of a man in a dark hat and sunglasses, with a brightly coloured wig and make up on and a red and white spotted handkerchief around his neck, dressed for carnival or a parade.

The late David Morris in festival mode

Together! is inspired by the late David Morris (1958-2010), External Inclusion lead at London 2012 and the Mayor of London’s disability adviser, whose work changed the lives of many disabled Londoners. David’s unique ethos underpins our aims and objectives.

We are committed to making all of our activities free to access for audience members and participants while providing work and training positions for Disabled people. You can make a donation to support our work by clicking the ‘Donate’ button at the bottom of this page, or email us on info@together2012.org.uk or call 07973 252751 for more information or to volunteer.

 

Photograph of a canvas banner, with the name Together! 2012 written at the bottom in colourful graffiti, with spray painted symbols above of different art forms such as a palette and brushes, camera, book, needle and cotton, clapperboard, microphone etc

The banner created by participants in our Summer Together! graffiti art workshop with Graffiti Life.