Baby Steps to Reading Wellbeing is a new programme from Inspire that aims to support adult confidence in sharing books with their very young children and provides accessible reading initiatives for time-poor parents to connect with reading for their own wellbeing. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the programme will see us working with parents and babies (aged 0-3) in libraries and Family Hubs in Ashfield and Mansfield.

What we want:
We are looking for a Live Illustrator / Graphic Recorder / Visual Note-taker with experience of working across an extended project. We want to visually document our whole project: you will observe and record training sessions, Book Babies workshops and parent-focused events, collecting families' experiences and illustrating the impact of what we do.

You will be working alongside creative practitioners with a passion for books and reading, who will design and deliver playful and creative book-based sessions in libraries and Family Hubs for parents and their early years children (aged 0-3). You will also attend events designed for parents to explore their own reading, which may be led by authors or storytellers.

Sessions will take place in Kirkby-in-Ashfield Library and Mansfield Central Library, and in Family Hubs in those areas. Further dates will be negotiated as the project takes shape.

Our aims for this commission are to:
~ graphically capture the parent and infant experience.
~ enhance traditional evaluation methods.
~ amplify key messages and make the project findings more accessible.
~ support marketing and promotion of activity.

Fee
Maximum £4500 (inclusive of VAT and all costs). There will not be additional budget for travel or accommodation.