Following our successful bid in the Yorkshire Coast Homes ‘ Your Choice Your Vote’ event, I am pleased to announce that our second block of studio based  Art Therapy will begin on Wednesday the 19th November. This will be held at The Westway Open Arms, Eastfield, and will run for 5 weeks up to Christmas, and 5  weeks from the New Year. Please contact me or the Open Arms team directly for further information.

We are proud to announce that ATY is now a full member of Coast and Vale Community Action. Sue will endeavour to act in the best interests of our members and clients when representing ATY at General Meetings of the organisation.

Today Art Therapy Yorkshire received a cheque from the Proudfoot group, which will be put to good use.

Today also marked the end of Rachel’s student placement with us. She has been a pleasure to work with and we wish her well.

Sue Holmes represented Art Therapy Yorkshire at Friday’s Through the Keyhole event held at the Spa Scarborough. Yorkshire Coast Homes invited their staff, tenants, and partner organisations to take part in a Halloween themed event. Sue won a hamper of Halloween themed sweets which has been shared!

We are very pleased to be able to announce that Agata Szymanska-Skelton has agreed to become our forth trustee. Agata will be formally introduced to the team at our next ordinary meeting, but we feel certain her experience in the voluntary sector and her youthful, enthusiastic personality will be a great asset.

Our Co-op funded supported adults group held their exhibition recently at The Street.

We would like to thank the Proudfoot’s group of companies for nominating us to the ‘Making a Difference Locally’ charity. This enabled me to purchase a quantity of lovely frames  Dunelm then offered us a discount to bring the frames into our range. The result was a fantastic exhibition of our artists work which truly showcased the achievements of our group members.