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Creative exchange digital media project
The digital media project, ‘Creative exchange’, enables staff to use digital technology to engage service users in therapeutic activity in community services and inpatient wards. The project aims to introduce the use of digital media equipment at the Trust in a creative and accessible way, …
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Arts and crafts group
This group utilises arts and crafts to encourage people experiencing mental health difficulties to engage in activity and express their thoughts and feelings in a creative manner – through art as well as words. The group undertakes a range of activities and is currently focusing on …
Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support (BIADS) taster sessions
Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support (BIADS) have organised and run taster sessions for people with dementia, who are using services on inpatient wards and in the community, their carers and staff, which explore creative activities and the impact these can have on mental and physical wellbeing. …
Arts (dance) on prescription
Working alongside Action Space Mobile this project invites people to attend 20 sessions that explore how music and movement can help people in their recovery and boost their mental wellbeing. Sessions include breath work, movement, confidence building games, relaxation techniques, individual reflection and group work. Each …
Art and wellbeing sessions
A series of art and wellbeing sessions, led by mental health community development worker, Roya Pourali, have been engaging women and children from BME communities in Barnsley in artistic activity. The sessions, which were run weekly, taught 21 women and a man from nine different …
Alive and kicking workshops
Barnsley-based Qdos Creates – one of Yorkshire’s leading providers of dance theatre – delivered a series of dance-based activity sessions to highlight the benefits that people with dementia can experience by taking part in this type of activity. The ‘alive and kicking’ sessions were delivered …
Creative Social Enterprise Initiative
The project supports the development of six new user-led creative enterprises for people with mental health needs and older people in Kirklees: a graphic design based social enterprise an arts cafe a guitar orchestra a “digital village” for collaborative digital arts development two new choirs …
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Who you are art exhibition
People in Kirklees who use mental services provided by the Trust have taken part in a collaborative art project with local organisations Hoot and AiM. Service users from Pathways day service in Mirfield and residents at Enfield Down in Honley collaborated with Hoot and AiM …
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 …
Sculpture and mosaic project
Work has taken place to create a unique sculptural mosaic at Fieldhead in Wakefield. The project involved service users who experience acute and enduring mental health problems, or have a learning disability, and are residents at the Newhaven Unit or Bretton Centre on the Fieldhead …