ENGAGING STAKEHOLDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY
Complete our survey for a chance to win £50 Amazon voucher

Survey closes Friday 14 March
Dear friend and supporter of our works,
As you will be aware, at Belfast Exposed for over 4 decades we have been leading the way in challenging, shaping and bringing meaning to our culture and society. Through the power of photography, Belfast Exposed has captured who we were, who we are and, in turn, what we can become. It serves us to ensure an inspiring, enduring legacy for today and beyond.

At our core is our continuing focus to grow and support our communities through facilitating learning, showcasing exhibitions, whilst helping to champion the community. Through identifying meaningful and lasting partnerships and relationships, we work to create genuine, enduring value for artist progression, mental health, and the legacy of our people.

Art is at the heart of everything we do, shaping the organisations dreams and aspirations; communicating universally from grassroots to boardrooms. As we plan our future direction and a new chapter beckons towards half a century of Belfast Exposed, we want you involved from the very beginning on what and where next.

We want to invite you to participate in a consultation as we shape our future organisational strategy and direction together. As a user, supporter, funder, partner and friend of Belfast Exposed we want you to help us look to the future and think of where we can deliver more and better for the people, communities and partners we work with. Since 2019 new have delivered 450 programmes to over 300 different communities delivering to over 5,000 people and organisations and engaged with over 150,000 visitors to our exhibitions. We have undertaken the first ever all Ireland conference focusing on mental health and wellbeing in photography, attended by over 450 delegates from across the world, and are about to host the second conference exploring ‘Trauma and the Art of recovery’ on 7-8 April 2025 (visit www.belfastexposed.org/conference), we have developed unique therapeutic programmes, bespoke training, OCN qualifications and learning across our work, to help empower, engage and support the next generation as well as providing lasting support to our communities.
We are undertaking this survey from 21 February - 14 March 2025 and would value approx 5 minutes of your time to contribute. From this we plan to undertake a series of 1 hour focus groups online during March 2025, and we would love your input as we shape the next chapter together.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thank you in advance for helping us create, develop and be more to those who enjoy what we do, as much as we enjoy creating with you.
As a thank you for your contribution, we will do a prize draw for a £50 Amazon voucher.
Deirdre and the team at Belfast Exposed.

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* 1. Select your type of organisation (Please tick all boxes which apply)

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* 2. How many individuals/groups do you work with/represent?

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* 3. Does your community/people you work with experience mental health or wellbeing issues?

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* 4. Do you currently provide a service for people within your community experiencing and identifying with mental health and wellbeing issues?

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* 5. If you answered "Yes" can you tell us what services you provide?

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* 6. When considering the benefits of mental health and wellbeing support for you or your community, which of the below are the most relevant? Rank each of the below from the most to least important.

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* 7. If you are an individual, would you be interested in using therapeutic photography to improve your mental health and wellbeing?

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* 8. If you answered yes to the previous question, what type of programme would your group be interested in?

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* 9. If a therapeutic photography programme was to be run within your community (for individuals or groups), which of the following outcomes would be you like to see? (Please tick all boxes which apply)

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* 10. Do you or your community have any environmental concerns?

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* 11. If you environmental concern is not listed above, please state what it is here.

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* 12. What aspects of your community heritage is most important to you?

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* 13. What are the good relations concerns within your community?

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* 14. If you as an individual or your group was participating in a programme, where would you like it to take place?

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* 15. What age range are the people that you work with/are you as a participant? (Please tick all boxes that apply).

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* 16. Please advise the geographical spread of the services you provide/or the services you access as an individual or group. (Please tick all boxes that apply).

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* 17. We are planning a number of online consultations to take forward a more detailed discussion on the area of mental health and wellbeing support through photography in March, would you like to be involved?

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* 18. About You

If you would like to explore Belfast Exposed's programmes further, please contact Mervyn Smyth at m.smyth@belfastexposed.org

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