hoot is located in Bates Mill not far from Huddersfield town centre on the corner of Queen Street South and Milford Street.
We have a 1-step accessible entrance on Milford Street with a ramp available. We also have a wheelchair friendly toilet and a hearing loop available to use.
hoot
Bates Mill,
Milford Street
Huddersfield, HD1 3DX
hoot is located in Bates Mill not far from Huddersfield town centre on the corner of Queen Street South and Milford Street.
We have a 1-step accessible entrance on Milford Street with a ramp available. We also have a wheelchair friendly toilet and a hearing loop available to use.
hoot
Bates Mill,
Milford Street
Huddersfield, HD1 3DX
hoot is located in Bates Mill not far from Huddersfield town centre on the corner of Queen Street South and Milford Street.
We have a 1-step accessible entrance on Milford Street with a ramp available. We also have a wheelchair friendly toilet and a hearing loop available to use.
hoot
Bates Mill,
Milford Street
Huddersfield, HD1 3DX
hoot is located in Bates Mill not far from Huddersfield town centre on the corner of Queen Street South and Milford Street.
We have a 1-step accessible entrance on Milford Street with a ramp available. We also have a wheelchair friendly toilet and a hearing loop available to use.
hoot
Bates Mill,
Milford Street
Huddersfield, HD1 3DX
Every few months we check in with how things are going in our Adult Creativity & Mental Health service Out of the Blue, and our Arts and Dementia service, Breathing Space. We find out what people are enjoying and how attending hoot activities are making a difference to them and their wellbeing.
I’m a real hoot enthusiast. Something to look forward to in the week, hoot has saved my life a few times. hoot really has been a godsend through lockdown. It has been the best thing to look forward to each week.
hoot from home sessions really have helped me feel connected to the outside world - without hoot I would feel completely disconnected.
Thanks for ringing it has been so nice to have a friendly voice at the end of the line for a change. It has been difficult for me but do you know these calls i have had from hoot have kept me going.
It’s so good to be back together as a group,we really miss it & can’t wait until we canmeet up again regularly.
Read more in our reports from each Quarter so far this year:
April - June 2021 Quarter 1 Report
July - September 2021 Quarter 2 Report
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In a year that will be remembered for its incredible challenges we responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by completely re-inventing our activities so that people could take part online and by post.
Read the annual report for Out of the Blue: Adult Mental Health and Creativity Service, and Breathing Space: Arts for dementia to find out what was achieved and how it made a difference to people during the pandemic. Click here (opens in a new tab/window)
”I’m a real hoot enthusiast. Something to look forward to in the week, hoot has saved my life a few times. hoot really has been a godsend through lockdown. It has been the best thing to look forward to each week.”
hoot is the only arts and health to be awarded Level 2 by Quality 4 Health + Wellbeing in Kirklees and we’re pretty chuffed about it!
Quality 4 Health + Wellbeing is the accreditation standard for groups and organisations delivering health and wellbeing services across the country. This means that hoot has had a full check up from external evaluators and we’ve been given the highest seal of approval for our commitment to excellence in all aspects of our service delivery. This includes:
We’ve also demonstrated impact, leadership, partnership working and innovation in the development and delivery of person centred services, and that we have robust structures and processes in place that are reviewed regularly throughout the organisation.
hoot is now one of 18 organisations in Kirklees to be awarded the Quality 4 Health + Wellbeing accreditation. We’re exceptionally proud of the hoot team, especially our Operations Manager Lailla, for all the hard work that has gone into us achieving this accreditation.
You can read more about Quality 4 Health + Wellbeing here: https://www.qualityforhealth.org.uk/
Project ended: 30/09/2021
hoot partnered with Lawrence Batley Theatre on their Here & Now project called Walk In My Shoes to bring people people together across the generations.
Teaming the Lawrence Batley Theatre's extensive experience offering creative opportunities to young people with our ground-breaking Breathing Space groups for people with dementia and their carers and partners we brought together older and younger people to find out what it would be like to “walk in my shoes”.
Throughout Autumn 2021, young and old shared writing, stories and drama and discovered what they had in common and what was different about their lives. The experience was captured on film (watch below).
Walk In My Shoes was part of Here & Now, a national project supported by Arts Council England and Future Arts Centres, marking The National Lottery’s 25th birthday. Running in arts centres across the UK, Here & Now aimed to create new conversations and understanding between different groups of people who don’t usually have contact to develop new creative conversations.
“It was fantastic to bring together people with such a diverse range of ages and experiences. The connections made felt even more exciting after 18 months of lockdown separation.” Breathing Space Project Manager, Moira
The second volume of The Baring Foundation's Treasury of Arts Activities for Older People has been released and you’ll find us on Page 113 with an activity from regular Breathing Space artist, Andrea Freeman.
We are proud and excited to have been invited to share an activity in this wonderful collection, which offers a myriad of wonderful creative ideas for anyone to enjoy.
Download a copy here: https://baringfoundation.org.uk/resource/treasury-of-arts-activities-for-older-people-volume-2/
