The Ten Percent Foundation has made a £500 donation to Purple Patch Arts, a Yorkshire charity helping learning-disabled people to thrive, learn and be heard.
Purple Patch Arts uses creativity as a route into learning. Its sessions combine art, music, drama, movement, literature, sensory activities and discussion. This enables participants to explore subjects at their own pace and in ways that work for them.
Creative and inclusive learning
The charity’s Purple Patch Approach has been developed through years of working with learning-disabled adults and young people.
The work is not simply about providing an enjoyable activity. Purple Patch Arts uses creative learning to support confidence, communication, independence, wellbeing and social connections.
Its services include Lifelong Learning Programmes, work with young people moving into adulthood, accessibility projects and activities that help other organisations engage meaningfully with learning-disabled people.
Purple Patch Arts reports that it works with more than 200 learning-disabled adults and young people each year.
Supporting involvement in research
The charity is also involved in inclusive and participatory research.
Its Purple Research Group brings together learning-disabled researchers, supporters and a researcher from the University of Leeds. The group works to ensure that learning-disabled people can take an active role in research as leaders, researchers, partners and participants.
This is particularly relevant to our own work with universities and research organisations. Good research should enable people to contribute in ways that are accessible, respectful and meaningful.
About our charitable donations
The Typing Works, Ten Percent Legal, Jonathan Fagan Business Brokers and TP Transcription Limited, including University Transcriptions and TP Translations, donate 10% of annual net profits to charity through the Ten Percent Foundation.
The Foundation was established by our group to distribute money to charities and community organisations in the UK and Africa. It does not incur administration costs other than minimal banking charges, so the money received can be distributed to good causes.
Purple Patch Arts is an excellent example of a local and specialist organisation making a practical difference. Its work gives learning-disabled people opportunities to try new things, develop skills, make friends and play a fuller part in their communities.
You can learn more about its work by visiting the Purple Patch Arts website.
