Hope Haven Partnership
We’re leading a new strand of creative work with and for Hope Haven, the new wellbeing hub in Whitehaven.
Over the next 12 months we will work with the Hope Haven community to develop arts projects, events and activities that they would like to take part in.
Our approach centres on collaboration, creativity, and community voice — aligning perfectly with Hope Haven’s mission to build personalised, trauma-informed support for anyone struggling with their wellbeing.
First, we’ll establish a panel of people involved with Hope Haven to form a steering group. This group will be supported to shape the programme of art activities from the very start – deciding the themes, artforms, and approach that best reflect the people who use and work at Hope Haven.
We’ll draw on our expertise in deliberative practice and creative facilitation from our own citizens’ jury Jury for Joy to help them come to a decision on a first series of projects, events and activities.
Sessions might include…
- Visual arts, photography, zine-making
- Spoken word, storytelling, creative writing
- Digital art, collage, animation
- Soundscape creation, movement, or music-making
- Tattoo design
- Filmmaking
- Scriptwriting
- New kinds of art invented by the people in the community of service users and staff at the hub
In Winter we’ll co-ordinate and deliver the programme of activities based on the vision of the steering group.
We will also work with staff, using creative reflective practice, to think about their community and support Hope Haven to access communities across West Cumbria through our Spark Sessions and Imagine Festival, Green Creative Hubs, Sensory Worlds and other new and exciting projects we have coming up!
We hope the partnership will integrate art and creativity more deeply within the trauma-informed, person-led approach of Hope Haven and create a sustainable model for embedding creative practice in health-based settings over the long-term using research informed practice and partnerships.
