Inside Out magazine: Pledge your support for a great project

The Elevator Pitch:

Turn the inside out – onto the page, into the world, and out of your system.

Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression; Inside Out aims to promote the use of creativity for personal development. A new breed of literary arts magazine, it encourages the submission and publication of work with a focus on self-awareness and self-help – because sometimes, simply owning something on the page is all it takes to move past it and move on, for both reader and creator.

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A Brief Explanation:

Inside Out Issue 2 is preparing to meet the world. It bursts forth in December, but that all depends on you. Behind the scenes, we are all working hard putting the finishing touches together. We have contributors, we have submissions, we have our content. We are also putting together and sending off various funding proposals to the usual funding organisations pleading our case. But these things take time and there are no guarantees.

So we decided to adopt an American approach this time around - something we have seen other great magazines do and make work. That approach is to set up a sponsorship page and to ask the wonderful and extremely generous public to support us.

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Some More Details:

We are a not-for-profit organisation - so don't for one minute think that we are going to line our pockets with your hard-earned cash. Quite the opposite. We plan to pour all donations into the production of Inside Out magazine, so that we can get its brave and informative content out into the world. We have promised our contributors a voice, a platform to be heard - perhaps for the first time ever. We need to keep that promise, to give them weight on the outside.

We will also run an outreach programme connecting directly with the public. Here we plan to do the following:

• Hold creative therapy workshops in order to help and teach.
• Host performance poetry events, so that contributors can air their work in a safe and supportive environment and talk to other poets and writers. This will allow contributors to meet other like-minded individuals and hopefully allow them to feel a little less 'alone' with their load.
• Hold art exhibitions, so that contributors can exhibit their work to the public and get a real sense of achievement. This will help them to promote their creative careers and to empower them as artists.
  
• Hold creative writing and poetry readings, so those interested in the magazine can get a more personal flavour of the work and hear it in person.
  

There are many other plans, but we don't want to give all of our secrets away just yet. Let's just say that we aren't short of ideas and that we have lots of potential projects.

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The Big Idea:

To actively campaign to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. To help contributors develop their talents putting them back in the driving seat where they belong.

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Pledge your Support:

To make a donation to Inside Out and pledge your support, click here or visit our site and click on the sponsor tab on the right hand side. All donations will be enormously appreciated and help us to make a continued and lasting difference to the lives that we touch.

Visit our website: http://www.myinsideout.co.uk for more Inside Out info.