Land of the Churnet
In Nov 2007 Borderland Voices started a new, 2-year project supported by Give it Sum.  It follows BV’s successful Rivers of Life Project and, like all BV’s work, aims to promote mental well-being by bringing out people’s creativity.

Borderland Voices was founded in 1998 in Leek, Staffordshire and currently works across the Staffordshire Moorlands. Our aim is to promote mental health through the arts and to raise public awareness and understanding of mental health issues by delivering accessible arts projects and offering creative space for self-expression within a mutually supportive community.

Constellations of the Churnet
As part of the Land of the Churnet project, Borderland Voices took  part in the Night Stations project with Charles Monkhouse which culminated in our participants having their own constellations drawn across the Staffordshire Roaches.  

Creative Clubs
In February 2009 we succeeded in raising funding from Staffordshire County Council (Closing the Gap Fund )  for a nine-month project to deliver a series of arts activities to children living in and around the Haregate estate in Leek, an area of high deprivation. 

Additional premises
In early 2009, Borderland Voices, with the help of Moorlands Housing took over an empty shop at 57 Queens Drive , next door to our base at No 55. This has provided us with a larger space to deliver facilities to wider areas of the community.