Supporting Culture and Sport in Lancashire.
Art workshops for all - Lancashire started fundraising!3 weeks ago
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We will improve access to arts resources and free events for our community who face multiple challenges with mental ill health and social isolation.
We will provide three important opportunities: 1. Organisational Investment in our art and exhibition resources for long-term use by our participants and the wider community into the future. 2. Participation Free, high quality art workshops which reflect the skill base and talent of the people who will contribute to an end of project exhibition and awareness raising celebration. 3. Challenging Stigma Our community faces increasing hardship and isolation due to ongoing mental health illnesses combined with living in deprived local wards. They have little or no opportunity to engage with or enjoy the benefits of art and culture. Such individuals are often over looked, cannot access local art groups or simply don't have the confidence to pursue the latent talent they possess. This project will create an easily accessible, supportive and affordable resource for this forgotten pool of talent to gain confidence, thrive, celebrate , connect, regain and maintain their well-being.
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Why it's a great idea:
Art offers many benefits for individuals seeking a new way to express themselves, reduce stress, take their minds off worries and illness. This project will offer therapeutic benefits which are important for building self esteem, a sense of satisfaction, achievement and a community. We wish to build on the group art work we have delivered to hundreds of individuals who reside locally, to ensure the environment we provide continues to enable and empower local people, worn down by circumstance, poverty and systemic changes in welfare, health and community services so they are in a better position to make the trans-formative changes they need to improve the quality of their lives. This often influences change for those in family and friendship circles as well, a particularly important focus while we all negotiate current economic and social challenges. “We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.” This project aims to celebrate human resilience through art.
Steps to get it done:
As an organization, we have felt the negative financial impact of the pandemic at a time when we had worked towards realizing our goal of self-sustainability but we are in a position to turn this around and recognize that we need support with this. Our location in a catchment between Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) makes securing major funding very challenging for our organization, hence the need for us to increase the sustainable levels of our own income. Despite this challenge, we have a track record of successfully delivering high impact, low-cost well-being projects which can save lives. This project offers a golden opportunity for our staff, volunteers and community to come together to create wonderful art, closer connections and a much needed sustainable resource for future Art provision for those who seek its therapeutic benefits. We are far stronger working in partnership within the community to ensure we create bonds of support and care which this project can achieve
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Supporting Culture and Sport in Lancashire.
How will the money be spent?Total £8,991
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VolunteerStubbylee Community Greenhouses is the main operational base for the The Bacup Consortium Trust. We are placed at the northern reach of the Rossendale valley and provide a thriving hub for social connection, community-based therapeutic activities including horticulture, woodwork, art and crafts courses and holistic wellbeing support for adults, situated within Moorland and Stubbylee Parks.
Our day-to-day work is deeply embedded in the community, with strong partnerships across education providers, NHS Mental Health services, local G. P.s, community artists and community groups. Our Social Prescribing program is highly regarded and well attended.
Collaborative work at a grass-roots level has contributed to a strong impetus to improve the environment and facilities for the community, which has achieved a significant turnaround in the quality of park-based activities for all ages. This has been reflected in the large increase in footfall to the park and its facilities, particularly needed and evident during the social distancing restrictions of the national lock-downs in 2020 and 2021.
The core focus of the work we do is to redress the significant challenges many of the local population experience as a result of poverty, ill health and social isolation.
The impact of our service can be, literally, lifesaving and often life changing. We have witnessed first-hand the effects our intervention has on our participants self-worth, confidence and happiness. We have seen people reducing or stopping their medication particularly painkillers and/or anti-depressants. Our participants make new friends, volunteer with us, become mentors for others in some cases and others move forward into employment or training. In all cases loneliness and isolation is reduced.
The impact our work has is best described by a previous beneficiary:
“Without Stubbylee, the staff and other volunteers I talk to I wouldn’t have been able to grow as a person and be in the place I am now. This place has given me value and helped me get back into society. Compared to constant tablets or just talking therapy there is no comparison. It has given me purpose again and I can’t think of a better organisation that would do that.”
Ryan Cohen, LCC Grounds Maintenance Operative,2022
Project Owner: The Bacup Consortium Trust The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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