{"id":442711,"date":"2026-02-24T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:10:08","slug":"bedfordshire-based-girls-who-create-art-group-aims-to-connect-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442711\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedfordshire-based Girls who Create art group aims to connect women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions revolve around art, with various activities such as watercolour painting, metal embossing and making leather journals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friends Poppy Barrett and Hannah Broughton attended the group for the first time in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barrett, 26, said she joined as part of a personal challenge to try something different every day of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broughton, 28, moved from Buckingham to Flitwick, in Bedfordshire, in 2025 and felt the group would allow her to meet new people and find out more about her local area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;It can be a little bit difficult to find groups, especially for girls, so as soon as I saw this, [I thought] &#8216;got to be brave &#8211; go out and try something different&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Girls who Create does use social media to publicise its activities &#8211; for example on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/girls_who_create\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sessions revolve around art, with various activities such as watercolour painting, metal embossing and making leather journals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-442711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}