creativity for wellbeing
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 …
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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‘Growing Together’ is a Breathe Creative collaboration with Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Service and Growing Green Community Allotment based on Bessemer Road, Cardiff. The aim is to connect people to nature through the arts, facilitating a creative wellbeing journey through the seasons to support therapeutic outcomes. Over the winter months, we have been making …
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Things are happening at our Growing Green project in Cardiff and Spring is on its way! This short film shows the work undertaken by Growing Green Horticultural Project and Breathe Creative staff and volunteers in building a large summer house (The Art Shed) at the Leckwith Droves allotment site in Cardiff. The work was funded …
This month the Growing Green Allotment project at Leckwith Droves in Cardiff received welcome help in the form of a community work day from Admiral Insurance staff. The work group (led by James Grant) was organised by our partners Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Service in Cardiff. A dozen workers supported by staff and volunteers …
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