More About Be Present Workshops

Background

Be Present Workshops CIC was founded in 2017. We are registered at Companies House (Company Number: 10837280).

Our practitioners and founders have worked and trained in a variety of fields. In addition to our commitment and passion for supporting disadvantaged groups, our Board of Directors has a diverse range of experience, including:

• Financial Management of multi-million pound government-funded projects.
• Human Resources Management.
• Safeguarding and Prevent.
• Cyber Security & ICT.
• Community Project Management.

How Projects Happen...

One of our current practitioners studied a Community Music Masters at the University of York. The hands-on course taught how to transpose different activities to suit groups with different learning needs and abilities, including Dementia and Autism, with a large focus on music.

From those beginnings, we have been delivering and running small projects around the North of England including Derbyshire Stroke Support groups, Sheffield Signet Mental Health Care, and other community groups in Leeds. We also worked with the Rural Development Council in rural North Yorkshire on a customized bus visiting pensioners in small towns and villages.

One current project, "Restore", is running in North East Lincolnshire. You can read more about this project on the Restore project page.

Our Philosophy

Many of our team have witnessed the powers of creative, holistic, and musical activities on individuals and groups whose lives had been hit hard in some way. It felt very natural to want to begin arranging some of this work ourselves.

Be Present would like to tackle some of the injustices in today’s society by making life more comfortable and pleasurable for those who have suffered various injustices or vulnerabilities.

We were pleased in 2019 to run a funded project and provide relaxing and engaging activities to those without a budget.

We have been in regular discussions with groups and often experiment with the various ways we can use our organisation to create accessibility and equality by improving the quality of life for those suffering, including those who cannot live independently due to mental health and those who have been restricted recovering from a stroke.

Our practitioners have reported work on projects to be extremely rewarding. We measure our success where possible with qualitative data taken from our beneficiaries, including stories, case studies, and the smiles seen when witnessing those involved able to cross hurdles that once felt too big to overcome.