{"id":476,"date":"2025-07-14T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:00:59","slug":"camerados-public-living-room-at-82-grimsby-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/2025\/07\/camerados-public-living-room-at-82-grimsby-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Camerados Public Living Room at 82 Grimsby Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of our newer experiments to bring people into our community hub at 82 Grimsby Road was to set up a Camerados \u2018Public Living Room\u2019 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camerados<\/a> is an international movement to bring people together in a casual, friendly, no agenda format meeting to start conversations and engage people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, VANEL has been trialling this and we\u2019ve established our \u2018living room\u2019 at 82 Grimsby Road (with comfy chairs, teapot at the ready and kettle on) every second Wednesday of the month from 10am – 12noon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone is welcome to just pop in for a chat, a brew and a biscuit. We\u2019re particularly interested in meeting new people from our community, but anyone is welcome. And within our hectic days, the beauty of Camerados is that it doesn\u2019t have to be about a topic or a theme or have a purpose – other than to connect people for a chat and to see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s always someone in the building at 82 Grimsby Road on these dates and there\u2019s regularly been people sat together and enjoying the conversation. If you\u2019ve ever met the ladies or chaps who are involved with our current groups in the Red Shed then you\u2019ll know how much chatting goes on anyway! Of course we\u2019d like to see more people, but if you\u2019re passing and want a break, come in and see us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any questions, speak to Liz who has set our group up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We particularly like the six Camerados principles which keep the meetings free from agenda:
It\u2019s okay to be a bit rubbish
Don\u2019t fix just be alongside
To be silly is to be human
Mix with folk not like you
We can disagree respectfully
Ask someone who is struggling to help you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve had great support from the Camerados team and who have supplied us with various materials for the group (including the tea pot!). There\u2019s very few of these Camerados groups around North East Lincolnshire at the moment and we also wanted to be a showcase and test bed for Camerados to help other venues and groups (especially in rural areas) set them up. (Again, speak to Liz or Karl for more information on establishing groups).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pop in and see us if you want a chat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn a bit more on Camerados<\/a> website here.
Read their latest e-newsletter<\/a>
Read their e-zine<\/a> (we have printed copies at the office)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter ready to pour a cuppa for Camerados<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Derek getting comfortable in our Camerados spot in the red shed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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VANEL started up a Camerados Public Living Room at our community hub at 82 Grimsby Road. Learn more or maybe come along?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vanelnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}