​Delivering a wide range of short or longer-term events, groups and projects occasionally under our own banner, but more often as commissions on behalf of other organisations, often focussing on young people heritage, equalities, arts, culture and environment.

Supporting YOUR Projects & Events

As a capacity building organisation, Sleeping Giants regularly supports a wide variety of organisations in delivering high quality events and projects to young people and other marginalised community members.
Our work can range from providing event support on a single day; to planning and delivering larger community events and projects; to being a core member of your project / events team, sometimes over the period of several months or years.
The best way to find out about the kind of support we can offer is to get in touch. Some of the work we have been involved in over the last few years has included:

• – LGBT Plus Older Adults
• – Creative Futures: Lochside & Lincluden
• – Skills for Life Project, rolling out coping skills and reslience tools to schools to support our Region’s primary aged children

COSTS

Our Project & Event support work is priced differently according to the length and level of involvement required…please get in touch with the team who will happily discuss costings for your project or event work.
Sleeping Giants Pricing Structure

Hidden Histories of Dumfries & Galloway Project

A key focus for us between 2017 and October 2020 was our Hidden Histories of Dumfries & Galloway Project, an ambitious mulit-layered and far reaching heritage engagement and skills-building project which saw Sleeping Giants and a range of partners present a varied and exciting appropriately themed skills, personal, and social development programme for young people from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Project immersed young people in the built, cultural and natural heritage of Dumfries & Galloway by running exciting and engaging activities which have included:

• – archival mapping and digital augmentation – moving away from traditional maps to sharing local lived histories through social media and virtual reality
• – rediscovering the archaeology of the area including through schools projects
• – ‘History Detectives’ – Hidden Histories Treasure Hunts for families
• – personal learning journeys or ‘Quests’ centred around a specific theme, place, space or landscape (e.g. the 12 Apostles Standing Stones)
• – drop-in immersive learning experiences (e.g. ReConnection Gatherings & Storytelling events such as a Viking Encampment involving a weekend of feasting, storytelling, Live Action Role Playing; handcrafts from the Viking/early Celtic era; period cooking, making textiles, costumes, shield making etc.)
• – more current local history / storytelling events e.g Our Lochsideand Lincluden
• – Heritage and Creative Skills Development Training Programmes such as traditional construction, period food creation, TV and film production etc.)
• – Live Action Role Play Adventures – bringing to life the (hidden) local connections and histories behind hit TV shows like Game of Thrones, Vikings, Outlander & Merlin for the benefit of their peers and community members

In learning lessons from the past, young people and the adults supporting them were supported to reflect on our collective present; putting our heritage right back in the heart of our communities’ learning and development.
To find out more about this project (including our final report and summary video) and to access some of our self-led heritage trails, visit: www.sleeping-giants.org.uk/the-lost-chronicles-of-Gallovidia