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Senior technician, alumni and designer Shiori Naruse is working on a residency programme commissioned by Creative Central NCL (funded by North of Tyne Combined Authority and Newcastle City Council) in partnership with The Home Group&#;s homelessness charity and social enterprise Tyneside Foyer. Shiori who graduated in from our Textiles degree secured her position this summer working with both Textiles and MA students. Shiori, her creative partner and a number of residents will be hosting a stall at this years Christmas market on November 25th and an exhibition this December in the foyer of Tyneside Foyer to complete the project.

Since graduating she has developed her print practice creating and selling wall-paper on her website and hosting workshops at institution’s such as Cultural Spring, Gem Arts, The Baltic, Shipley Art Gallery and Seven Stories as well as hosting pop-up shops Fenwick and John Lewis. After running her own studio for several years Shiori is now working as part of the print collective Incubate Printmaking alongside artists and printmaker Nick Christie & Alfons Bytautas which has given her the studio space needed to make and host more workshops. Working in community settings is a big part of her practice and is a central point of her work with Newcastl

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Going from customer to colleague

That is why we value having first-hand lived experiences from colleagues across our business.

Across Home Group, we have colleagues working for us who once were, or still are, Home Group customers.

That includes in our support services, where we have colleagues like Scott.

Scott came to Home Group after spending time living homeless when he was 21 and stayed at our Tyneside Foyer, a support service for young people in Newcastle.

Staying here on and off for four years, Scott took the opportunity to do an apprenticeship with us. After finding where he best fit in at Home Group, he started working in our support services.

Fast forward to now and Scott is back where it all began, working as a senior member of staff at Tyneside Foyer.

As he tells it, having been through the journey himself it helps him connect with customers better.
“It is so powerful having that experience myself. It lets me connect well with our customers. They can see the journey I’ve been on, having started out no different to them.”

As he says, it helps him to emphasise with our customers. He can be sat down with a customer at breakfast and share with them his own experiences sat in the very same seat not that long ago.

It is stories like Scott’s, and the experiences h