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Building bridges of understanding through movement, dance and dementia
This project aims to share best practice in the field of movement and dance for people living with dementia. Sharing will take place on various platforms including conference presentations, practical workshops, lecture demonstrations, meetings and visits with experts, researchers and practitioners in various countries; all …
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Football trip to Prague
A service user football team from the Trust travelled to Prague to compete in the EASI Cup, Europe’s premier mental health football tournament. The European Association for Sport and Social Integration (EASI) Cup takes place each year and is a pan-European mental health specific football …
Drama performance – Stars in your Eyes
The Pontefract Family Centre is a local charity that supports people with learning disabilities. This project will be run over six months and aims to increase the opportunity for service users to engage in drama activities and work towards starring in a performance. People with …
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Purple Patch Arts
Purple Patch Arts is an organisation which specialises in creative projects for adults with learning disabilities. Our project, which is based in Halifax, offers two types of artistic activities for adults with learning disabilities. The sessions take place during term time. The activities on offer are: A …
Fundays for adults with learning disabilities
What’s it about? Popular fun-packed, accessible, mixed ability multisport, fete games activities for adults with learning disabilities from across Barnsley, Calderdale, Wakefield and Kirklees. Booking is essential. Who’s this for? Adults who use the Trust learning disability services, their carers and external organisations. When and …
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The Walking Project
This project provided the opportunity for service users to become more active, physically fit and reflect how this can improve their mental wellbeing by offering 12 weekly walking/Nordic walking sessions culminating in a residential walking challenge which included education around safety and map reading. Supporting service …
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 …
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 …