Inclusive Arts Project
Our Projects
We have had the privilege to work with many high quality arts organisations, to deliver collaborative projects to our guests. These inclusive arts sessions give our guests the opportunity to explore different modes of creative expression in more depth.
Under 18s sessions
Through the support of BBC Children in Need, the National Lottery and Community Foundation Wales, Touch Trust have been able to provide services for children and young people on Saturdays twice a month.
Throughout the pandemic, these sessions continued to be provided virtually, via Zoom. Thanks to our funders, our young people were able to access fun, themed sessions, traditional Touch trust sessions and group parties on a drop-in basis.
Our sessions on Saturday’s last between 30 – 45 minutes and are focused on boosting well-being and confidence in the young people who access our services.
We are now running these sessions again on a monthly basis from September 2022. Please see the news section for more information, or get in touch via the contact page to find out more.
Literature Wales x Touch Trust
The most recent project that Touch Trust has run has been in partnership with two poets from Literature Wales. During this project, guests have had the opportunity to take part in a series of 6 sessions based around the weather as a focal point.
During the explorations of different weather types, our poets have created work which reflects the energy, words, movements and feelings that our guests have had.
Digital Arts Project
Touch Trust was commissioned by the Arts Council of Wales’ National Lottery Fund to run a Digital Community Arts project during summer/autumn 2020 in the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic. This project enabled us to reach out and support our community through artistic and creative engagement in a form of ‘playing one piece together’. The project was delivered around Pachelbel’s Canon as a starting point to experiment new and creative ways of connecting with others through different art modalities.
Through the Zoom meeting app and other tools, Touch Trust Creative Facilitators from various fields in music, movement, dance and other forms of creative arts engaged with the participants and their carers to reach out to our community as widely as possible. The sessions were created in a way so that our participants had an enjoyable time sharing their stories, being creative, and having fun while keeping safe. All of our participants have made significant contributions to the final piece, which can be viewed here.
Recent inclusive arts sessions have been run with support from:
Community Foundation Wales
Wooden Spoon Wales
Arts Council Wales
Literature Wales
BBC Children in Need
The National Lottery Community fund
Edward Gostling Foundation
Virgin Money Fund
Moondance Foundation
Welsh Government /Business Wales Economic Resilience fund
National Lottery People and Places
GVS
Admiral
Percy Bilton Charity
Persimmons Homes
People’s Postcode Lottery
With special thanks to
