Decision details

The Manchester Art Gallery and the Manchester Population Health team have worked collaboratively to co-create and test a wellbeing project - the Art of Resilience - piloted with Manchester primary school children in 2021/22. The project, focused on trauma informed practice is part of Manchester's ambition to be an ACE aware and trauma informed City.

Following a successful implementation year with several primary schools the objective is to extend the offer to other primary schools in Manchester schools and the partners have approached the VRU to support the extension both financially and in the allocation of the project resources based on VRU dashboard data and GM contact network

The learning and good practice has been shared with the GM ACEs and trauma group by means of evaluation and feedback from participating schools.The consensus is the project is valued and delivers against the VRU and Trauma group objectives.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is to fund Manchester Art Gallery to support the continued delivery of the Art of Resilience project in partnership with the Greater Manchester Population Health team during the 2022/23 Academic Year (September 2022 until July 2023) The programme will be funded out of the VRU Serious Violence fund (Education delivery group budget line) worth £14,000.

The GM VRU have previously funded Manchester Art Gallery £14,000 to support the Art of Resilience programme out of the 2021/22 Serious Violence funding via an exemption form due to the unique services provided by the Gallery. This totals the funding amount to £28,000