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LGBTQ+ Smoke Free - Creative Minds Project

About the project

We’re proud to share that we have been chosen as a creative partner for Creative Minds, a charity hosted by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The Trust provides community, mental health and learning disability services to the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield, alongside some medium secure (forensic) services to the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber and is committed to the use of creative approaches in health services.

As a partner we are part of a growing network of community organisations who are working in partnership with the local NHS to provide creative projects and opportunities for people who use services at the Trust, their carers and local communities.

With support from Creative Minds and the Trust we’re helping local people and groups to develop and grow creatively. Find out more at www.creativemindsuk.com

We will be working in partnership with Happy Valley Pride.

More information coming soon.

About Creative Minds

Creative Minds is a charity hosted by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Creative Minds focuses on developing creative activities in partnership with community organisations that help improve the health and wellbeing of people who use Trust services.

The use of creative activities in healthcare can have a really big impact on a person’s wellbeing – whether that be increasing their self-esteem, so they feel confident to try new things, developing social skills as they meet new people or providing a sense of purpose as they are actively engaged in meaningful activity that has a structure and aim.

Where people have low expectations and poor self image, the sense of achievement found in creativity gives them a chance to start to move away from negative or self-destructive patterns and start to write a new story that promotes recovery.

We all have something inside of us that responds to creativity; this may be through sport, dance, art or writing. The Trust and Creative Minds want to make sure that we can offer a wide range of activities that appeal to our diverse communities. Find out more at www.creativemindsuk.com.