Purple Patch Arts - Projects and Partnerships

Projects and Partnerships

Purple Patch regularly works with day services, supported living providers, libraries, universities, schools and other organisations to deliver short-term funded projects that meet specific outcomes. We actively seek grants to fund a wide range of projects, and organisations also invite us in to provide specialist training, consultancy and workshop delivery.

Why we do it

To meet need

Projects allow us to deliver targeted sessions that respond to identified needs.

To work with new people

We get to work with people in new areas, or those who might not be able to attend our Lifelong Learning Programmes.

To support others

We have the opportunity to share our expertise with other organisations to upskill their staff.

Current work

Below is a selection of the projects we’re currently working on:

To Wander is to Adventure

Funder:
Bradford MDC

Description:

We’re working in partnership with Wur Bradford to improve health and wellbeing for adults with learning disabilities and autism living in Bradford South by delivering mindful walking sessions in Oastler Market.

Habitats

Funder:
St Chad's

Description:

The fabulous Hyde Park Source will be visiting our Headingley group this Spring to help us build habitats for birds, bats and bugs to share with local organisations.

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Living Life to the Fullest

Funder:
The University of Sheffield

Description:

This research project seeks to forge new understandings of the lives, hopes, desires and contributions of children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. An arts retreat that we ran was featured on BBC Breakfast.

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Highlights

We’ve been lucky enough to run some fabulous projects over the years. Here are some of our highlights.

We were funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a film about the social history of learning disability.

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We partnered with Leeds Cancer Awareness to raise understanding of the signs of cancer among our Lifelong Learning Programme participants and to increase their confidence in talking about their bodies.

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We delivered training to library staff on Kirklees and Bradford in how to deliver Sensory Stories. The work, funded by Arts Council England, had a huge impact, with Kirklees libraries being nominated for a national Libraries Change Lives awards.

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We collaborated on a sensory installation based on Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood’, funded by Arts Council England.

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We were funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation to work with celebrated poet Ian McMillan and create a poem based on the responses of children with complex needs to classic literature.

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We ran workshops for young people with learning disabilities as part of a cross-disciplinary, arts-based research project which explored the toilet as a place of exclusion and belonging.

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Got an idea?

We’re always keen to develop new partnerships; if you have an idea of how we could work together, or for more information about our previous work, please get in touch.