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Art for health and wellbeing access fund
Please note: During the pandemic, Artworks are making printed workbooks full of creative activities that can be done at home. The workbooks will also have information about support, guidance and ways to connect and engage with essential services and others. What’s it about? Artworks is …
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Simply Art @ Creative Minds
What’s it about? Creative Minds Simply Art is an opportunity for people who are accessing Trust services to showcase their creative talent, be it painting, sketching, photography or creative writing. The Creative Minds team are currently changing the displays and wall art across our NHS …
Sprout – Growing works
What’s it about? It’s fun, social, outdoor activities for families who have children with additional needs. Weekly accessible and non-judgmental sessions to build skills and learn through play which also provide a break and a support network for parents/carers to gain advice from other parent/carers. …
Words in Mind—volunteering kirklees
What’s it about? This is a lottery funded project which aims to recruit, train and support volunteers to facilitate groups of people who want to enjoy literature and reading in all its forms. This is called bibliotherapy. It will offer a service to wards, care homes, …
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Re-Cycle
What’s it all about? Led by Spectrum People, a bike workshop opened June 2015, this is about providing a supportive activity for vulnerable adults. This has developed into a larger scheme – Re-Cycle – providing bike repairs on a commercial basis (in Castleford centre) to …
Edible gardening clubs
Summary Incredible Edible already run weekly edible gardening club sessions at six locations in the district and our latest initiative is to enable service users from mental health and learning disabilities services to come along to Fieldhead to take part in therapeutic horticulture during the …
Chrysalis Theatre Company
A project to create and develop a service user led Youth Theatre Company. The company is for young people from 14-18 and will take the form of weekly drama sessions that run throughout the year and culminate in a performance around Christmas 2012. Ten weekly …
Synapse – fresh connections in mental health
Synapse is a group of mental health service users who come together to consider alternative methods of maintaining and enhancing mental wellbeing, offering mutual support and friendship. To encourage participants in the group to explore creative ways of relaxing through arts, crafts and singing and …
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Wellbeing through waterways
This project has been developed in partnership with the charity Safe Anchor Trust (SAT). The Trust made a financial contribution which helped towards the cost of refitting two SAT canal boats that can be used by staff, service users or carers in any of the …
Young People’s Advisory Group film project
Working alongside the media production company, One to One Development Trust, the CAMHS Young People’s Advisory Group (CYPAG) has produced a DVD. One to One Development Trust facilitated the 6 month project working with the group of young people who use the CAMHS service to …
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