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We build community and support people in vulnerable life moments using art and creativity.
We run creative workshops, make artwork with communities, learn about communities through creative research and evaluation, and provide sewing supplies for social good.
The Latest from across our activities
- Developing Creativity Acre, Art workshops immersed in natureSignificant Seams is pleased now to be offering some of our most popular courses direct to the public, from our studio in a wildlife idyll in the rolling mid-Devon Countryside. The Apple Studio is situated amidst a variety of gardens and alongside a space we’re starting to refer to as ‘Creativity Acre’ – a woodland
- Reflecting, rebalancing, and being regenerative: assessing our prevention and recovery programme in 2023This year our prevention and recovery programmes have been targeted and intentional. Building on our experiences from the pandemic period, we have reached out to others ‘on the front line” of community support in a variety of ways: often characterised by behind the scenes but direct invitations to our programmes, sometimes with sessions just for
- Reflecting, tallying, planning… Ensuring our integrity in strengthening the seams of community in our youth programmeAs we finalize our register for our Christmas Holiday programme (offering 44 sessions for youth), Significant Seams is also tallying up: this year we have so far delivered 159 sessions to 46 young people. In one programme 80% of attendees were either known to CAMHS, had a child protection order, at risk of exclusion, or
- #PatchworkCrediton has a new partner: the NHSDevon Recovery Learning Community, a division of the NHS that offers free courses in a wide range of activities are now sponsoring two upcoming three-session workshops. Alastair Campbell’s representation of ‘extending one’s jam jar’ (see this short video) helps understand the logic of this approach. Engaging with creative activities has been proven to not only