Children at schools run by Stockport charity, Together Trust, have responded to calls for art to brighten the walls of the new NHS Nightingale Hospital at Manchester Central.
Children and young people in the Together Trusts schools and care settings, have been busy creating art to brighten the Manchester Nightingale Hospital, built in response to the Covid-19 emergency, following a call from the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership. Children in the charity’s care in many cases have learning disabilities, complex needs and autism.
Mark Lee, Chief Executive at the Together Trust said:
Art plays an important part in everything we do at the Together Trust, whether that’s in our schools, our residential homes or in our services in the community. In many cases the people we support, who come from right across the North West, have the kind of complex needs that mean they’ve often struggled to cope in other settings.
“But at the Together Trust we use art to help our children and young people express themselves and I’m delighted to see them responding in this way to the call for art for the NHS Nightingale hospital in Manchester.”
The Together Trust has a long association with the arts and a great deal of experience in using art as therapy and as a means by which children and young people can express themselves.
This year, as part of their 150th anniversary celebrations, the charity put on an exhibition at The Lowry Centre showcasing work created by children and young people supported by them, which celebrated the long history of the Together Trust and the work they do.