Funded by Leeds Community Foundation – Give Love Leeds

In 2019 we launched our first project and arranged for 4 skilled practitioners to facilitate interactive music and drama workshops in care homes for dementia to build a sense of community within the settings, build friendships and improve well being. We were very pleased that In some of the care homes we worked the project inspired new ideas and activity rota.

One highlight was our session in Horsforth that inspired one of the beneficiaries to tell a story of her earlier life that care staff hadn’t yet been told. We found that she in fact performed at Leeds Grand Theatre sitting on a real horse! Story collection after our sessions was a really lovely part of the Join Hands project and allowed others to get to know each other on a bit of a deeper level with some encouragement from our practitioners.