Storybook Wings - www.storybookwings.org.uk
RAFA, in association with RAF Community Support is thrilled to announce a delightful new welfare initiative called Storybook Wings. This scheme provides a link between deployed parents and their children by enabling parents to record stories, nursery rhymes and poems for their children to listen to whilst they are away.
How Storybook Wings Works
Parents are given access to professional recording equipment and a booklet of stories or CD and record their chosen story, along with a personal greeting.- Once recorded, the stories are professionally edited using specialist software.
- Music and sound effects are added, transforming the story into a unique keepsake.
- The completed CD is sent to the children in a personalised CD cover, and is ready for them to listen to whenever they like; at bedtime, in the car or even at school during 'show and tell'!
The Future of the Project
The project has an enormous amount of potential and having been sucessfully trialled at a number of RAF stations in 2008, we have rolled the project out and there are now 29 participating stations . There are also great possibilities for the further development of the project including:
- A service to record and edit stories and messages from children to parents.
- For those personnel who are not parents, the opportunity to record messages on CD/DVD for friends, partners and families (for example Valentine's Day, Mothering Sunday, Christmas).
Storybook Wings Update - July 2009
The 'Storybook Wings' project has now successfully completed its pilot phase and is really starting to take off. We have now issued over 250 CDs to the children of RAF personnel on deployment.
Stations now participating in the project are:
- Benson
- Boulmer
- Conningsby
- Corsham
- Cosford (share with Shawbury as required)
- Cottesmore
- Cranwell
- Digby
- Halton
- Henlow
- High Wycombe
- Honington
- Kinloss
- Leeming
- Leuchars
- Lossiemouth
- Lyneham
- Marham
- Northolt
- Odiham
- St Athan
- Waddington
- Wittering
- Valley
- Akrotiri (Cyprus)
- Gibraltar
- Kuwait
- Qatar
A big thank you to our volunteer editors who have now edited over 50 stories!
Our website has now gone live and includes comprehensive information about the project, as well as a log in protected resource centre including downloadable PDFs of useful documents. See www.storybookwings.org.uk for further details!
Comments received from families who have benefitted from the scheme:
- “Thank you for establishing this wonderful idea and providing such an excellent service”
- “The children enjoyed hearing their Dad read to them last night!”
- “The CD was a lovely surprise and meant a great deal to us”
- “It is so nice for the children to hear Daddy’s voice and to know we can play it whenever we want to”
- “The CD was absolutely fabulous; it brought a few tears to my eyes; it was just wonderful and I am sure the children will treasure this for many years to come”
See www.storybookwings.org.uk for more information!
If you would like any more information on this scheme, or would like to become one of our valued volunteer editors, please contact the Storybook Wings Co-ordinator on 01780 783838 ext 7538 or email Storybook Wings
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