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Moments of Joy: the value of participatory arts
Moments of Joy: the value of participatory arts

At South Yorkshire Housing Association we want our customers’ experience with us to be a joy.

Since 2013 we have been exploring through a series of test projects how participatory arts can add value to our purpose: with us you can settle at home, live well and realise your potential. We call this programme Moments of Joy.

This year the programme has had fresh impetus as a direct result of the pandemic: as we locked down our extra care housing (homes for people aged 55 and over) we knew we had to do more to connect with people isolated in their homes.

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Community, Placemaking, RegenerationMiranda PlowdenAge Better in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Participatory arts, SOAR, Parson Cross, Wincobank, Firth Park, Brendan Ingle, Shiregreen, darts, Yorkshire Artspace Comments
Slingsby Place: how can you make a 'place' with just 28 homes?
Slingsby Place: how can you make a 'place' with just 28 homes?

How can you make a "place" with just 28 homes? This is a recurring theme for South Yorkshire Housing Association whose 6,000 homes are dispersed across Sheffield City Region in groups of 10-100.

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Social Housing, Community, PlacemakingMiranda PlowdenThe Manor, public art, women of steel, Proctor+Matthews, Dorothy Slingsby, pictorial meadwos, Green Estate, Emilie Taylor, Yorkshire Artspace, Angie Hardwick, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Chatsworth Comments