'Children of The Croft' Project Exhibition Dates Set

The Children of The Croft project is well underway, and the Nottingham based volunteer team are busy preparing to carry out interviews with women who were lone parents in the 1960s and 1970s, and who lived at pioneering housing support scheme, The Croft in Alexandra Park during the first few months of their babies' lives.

We are delighted to announce that the stories of 'Croft Mums' will be showcased in an exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum from 14 November 2012 to 20 January 2013.

There will also be two discussed based events with guest speakers on Friday 16 November 2012 and Friday 18 January 2013, which will launch the exhibition and the educational website.

The Croft was a non-institutional shared house, consisting of 8 flatlets which offered a 'safe haven' to young mums and their babies. It was run by the pioneering housing charity, Family First, and was described at the time by the Home Office as a 'revolutionary idea'.

The Children of The Croft project is funded by a £20,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We aim to record the oral histories of up to 30 former residents of The Croft, and will seek to discover how the support they received helped them to shape positive futures for themselves and their babies.