A unique paid traineeship empowering emerging artists in Calderdale to earn, learn, and create over six months—gaining skills, mentorship, and inspiring local communities through new cultural projects.

Calderdale’s Thriving Communities partnership has come together to develop and map ‘Thriving Pathways’ between people, organisations, services and activities and in doing so create a ‘Living Database’ of community mental health and wellbeing provision developed by and for its communities.

A project where young people from Calderdale worked together with socially engaged artists to depict their current realties and utopian visions for the future.

During the winter we gave people the chance to access our spaces and art activities for free throughout.

Over summer 2022 people living in Calderdale joined us across a series of free creative sessions where they collectively created pictures of the challenges we face as a community, our visions for a better world, then worked together to co-create proposals for a Utopian Calderdale.

Over the Summer of 2022 Halifax Opportunities Trust, Halifax Panthers, artist Puy Soden and Everybody Arts have got together to enable young people to enjoy a really special and exciting art-making experience.

Over the course of a year, students were invited to consider how they can use art to affect positive change in their own lives and the lives of others, now and in the future.

To support people through difficult times during the Covid-19 pandemic, we shared a weekly wellbeing email with activities, ideas and inspiration to help people relax, rewind and recharge.

Calderdale’s Creativity for Wellbeing Network brought together people from organisations involved in delivering creative and cultural activities that supported wellbeing.