Our ‘Art Cart’ at Velindre Cancer Centre

Katja with our Art Cart

To celebrate World Mental Health Day 2024 we are highlighting a new Breathe Creative project which is offering creativity for wellbeing activities for cancer patients in Cardiff. World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. Our new ‘Art Cart’ project is based at Velindre Cancer Centre (Velindre …

Digging Deeper

Thanks to a grant from Community Foundation Wales via the Health & Social Care Innovation Fund, we have been facilitating a creative wellbeing journey through the seasons over the last year for our vulnerable participants, by connecting with nature, making art from nature and bringing people together to grow and relax in a natural outdoors …

Penguintown Animation

Penguintown

Our latest film, Penguintown, launched for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, was created by our animation group at Ty Canna Outreach Service and User Led Resource Service.   “The film Penguintown began in a session of creative writing with service users at Ty Canna. Ideas developed further through discussions about representing mental health issues. The resulting film …

‘Seeds of Hope’ Final Project Report Published

Our ‘Seeds of Hope’ project aimed to help vulnerable people in Cardiff who are experiencing, or who are at risk of, food poverty. Based at the Leckwith Droves allotment in Cardiff, and working in partnership with referred service users and volunteers from vulnerable communities, we aimed to provide them with volunteering opportunities, with a more …

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