Although we anticipate these workshops to be of therapeutic benefit, they are not 'therapy'. Rather, we are aiming to provide a creative outlet for our staff and for it to be a positive, joyful, restorative, energising, hopeful, imaginative and social experience.

The opportunity to take part in the Creative Writing Workshop will be advertised to all staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (around 17,000 employees) – some of whom have been redeployed during the pandemic, shielding, and/or working from home.

The sessions can be delivered via the MS Teams platform, widely used in our hospitals.

We'd like to produce a booklet of texts written by staff to include in our Arts Activities Packs that we provide for patients recovering in our hospitals (possibly with an option for patients to add their own poetry or prose). We also hope to distribute this booklet to all Sheffield Teaching Hospitals staff. 

Start date: Tuesday 5 October 2021 (completion by January 2022).

Fees: The total budget for this project is £1,440.00 to provide 8 workshop sessions. The fee is inclusive of VAT, preparation time, and some support with evaluation.

More information can be found on our website

Deadline: Thursday 26 August 2021, 5pm