Privilege

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This week at Yew Tree I was told in a very public arena that Wakefield was privileged to have Yew Tree.  It’s a statement that has stayed in my mind since it was said and the thoughts it sparked have inspired this blog…

We are lucky enough and work hard enough to merit so many lovely comments, reactions and actions as we go about our creative business…I never take any of them for granted…but the wording of this was different to the majority of affirmations we get…it made clear that our impact was something wide reaching…something more encompassing than I had thought…

This has then been backed up with a couple of other things that have happened this week…none of them majorly significant in isolation but still, illustrations of the role that Yew Tree plays not just in individual lives but in the life of the city of Wakefield.  We are linked with so many organizations, initiatives, individuals and strategies all of which are a privilege to know and work in partnership with.

Happily that network just keeps growing…we’ve launched a new youth theatre group in Normanton in the last couple of weeks, we’re about to open one in Portobello.  We have just launched a number of activities at St George’s Community centre in Lupset and we are in the final plans to open a youth theatre at the Hepworth Gallery for young people who have accessed Mental Health services…we just keep growing and growing…

The ethos behind all of these ventures and everything we have been doing over the last 16 years since we were formed is simple…we want people to have the chance to become the most fulfilled they can be, to enjoy support to reach their creative ambitions…no matter how humble or far reaching they might be and we feel privileged to be a part of that…  

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