Truth Be Told (TBT) is an intergenerational storytelling charity which helps churches to combat loneliness and isolation by uniting all ages, cultures and abilities to belong together with the hope of the gospel.
"My highlight today was singing ‘This Little Light of Mine’ and witnessing the residents instantly engage and sing their hearts out!"
Activity
TBT Storytellers will deliver our creative, interactive storytelling sessions sharing parable style stories within the church or community, school or care home, toddler, ESOL or additional needs group depending on their community’s needs and church’s capacity.
Time
It could take as little as 6 weeks to set up a group if you have identified a Storyteller, and a location for your activities. Training takes between 2-4 hours depending on your chosen partnership option, and is completed on our bespoke TBT app, making it really easy to access everything you need. It'll take about an hour to prepare each session, and the session itself, including set up and pack down takes around 2 hours.
Cost
TBT Stories – For £5 per month there’s a handful of stories and training videos and an invite to our monthly online community.
TBT Project - The launch cost is £150 which covers our physical resources. There's then a monthly licence fee of £25 for curriculum and support. You'll also need some props and to replenish stickers and bubble mixture - £50 a year will be ample. TBT never wants money to be a reason not to launch the project, so please do get in touch if this is a barrier for your church.
Further partnership opportunities including Stories Plus and Project Plus are currently in development and will offer extra resources to enhance your storytelling groups.
Partnership
We currently have 2 partnership options to choose from. TBT Stories, which is ideal for individuals wanting to tell stories with different groups of people, and TBT Project which is ideal for churches wanting to run a story or song group whether to launch a new group or revive an existing group.
Support
TBT provide the physical resources, a full curriculum, operations manual, training, support and facilitate peer to peer nurture and encouragement. You can contact churches running similar projects and through Cinnamon Network you can access support from a Cinnamon Advisor and Cinnamon Leadership Training.
Resources
You will need to source some of your own props, provide refreshments if required and somewhere to secure your TBT session resources.
People
A TBT Storyteller will need to manage the project locally and would benefit from experience with young children and a passion for uniting all ages, cultures and abilities. No storytelling experience required, just an infectious enthusiasm and imagination! A TBT Friend would be useful to help sessions run smoothly and to be available to pray if asked.
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