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Stepping Stones (SSC) is an independent organisation working within the Greater Manchester area. SSC works with young people with aged 11 – 25 with learning difficulties. Though increasingly we are working with individuals with complex difficulties, which will require changes in our practice.

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What we do

Stepping Stones promotes, supports  and encourages the artistic endeavours of young people with special needs to ensure they have a voice. We use creative arts to aspire, personal development and respite

We are a non-profit making organisation

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Our objectives

The Charity’s objects are specifically restricted to the following:
1. To advance education for the public benefit, particularly but not exclusively of young people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and people experiencing mental health issues in the North West of England, by the provision of the Arts as an educational methodology, including but not limited to:
a. Practical workshops, training courses, and mentoring in various art forms;
b. Festivals, performances, exhibitions, events, and work experience programmes, including in partnership with schools and other organisations;
c. Facilities, resources, and opportunities to create and engage with art, supporting personal development, skills, and lifelong learning.
2. To relieve the needs of young people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and people experiencing mental health issues, and their families, dependants and carers, primarily in the North West of England, in particular but not exclusively by:
a. Providing opportunities for participation in the Arts as a means of recreation, wellbeing, and social connection;
b. Using artistic activity to improve quality of life, self-expression, and inclusion in the community.
For the purposes of these objects, “the Arts” includes, but is not limited to, drawing, painting, textiles, photography, animation and film, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, computer-generated work, dance and movement, performance art, and theatre.
The area of benefit is primarily the North West of England, but activities may extend across the UK and internationally where appropriate.

About

Steppingstones Creative (SSC) was set up in 2014, as a non-profit organisation, to use the creative and expressive arts , in the development of young people with learning difficulties in The Greater Manchester area, primarily, Salford and Trafford, UK.

In this period, using volunteers and freelance artists, it has delivered projects, as collaborations, with Julian Boal, Mike Garry, Bettina Carpi, Liz Taylor, Ashleigh Shorrocks, Sally Gilford, Marc Turner and agencies Warrington Culture, Edgehill University, Salford Dance University Department, Salford Holiday camp (Prestatyn), The Wentworth, The Horsfall Gallery (42nd Street), The Soapworks, Warrington Youth Zone, amongst others.

Besides collaborations SSC operates its own activities, from Cadishead Band Hall, on Saturday mornings and during holidays.

SSC has developed several international links with disabilities groups in U.S.A., Senegal and Malta. These have been organic development with several originating as a digital response during the ‘Pandemic’.