Who we work with
Brave Day portfolio
A selection of Brave Day multimedia storytelling projects and inter-disciplinary creative collaborations across education, health, arts and culture - often at their intersections.
Projects typically combine storytelling strategy, creative co-design, training and production coordination, shaped by context rather than sector.
Clients and Partners include:
NHS Greater Manchester / Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership`
Greater Manchester Combined Partnership
Manchester Metropolitan University
A Brilliant Thing CIC
Breaking Barriers CIC (Rochdale)
BBC Learning and Open University
BBC Arts and Radio - Contains Strong Language Festival
RFK UK Human Rights Foundation
Action Together
Pendle West Primary Care Network
The Roots Programme
In-Situ
Cartwheel Arts
Independent artists and facilitators
See the Case Studies page for more indepth desciptions of some of our project work process and outcomes.
Live Well Communities Fund
GMCA & NHS Greater Manchester
A multi-layered storytelling project documenting the prototype year of the Live Well Communities Fund to create content for a learning pack, and to promote the initiative to funders and investors.
Project overview
Brave Day was commissioned by Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and NHS Greater Manchester, working in partnership with A Brilliant Thing CIC, to design and coordinate a multi-layered storytelling approach for the £1m Live Well Communities Fund.
The Live Well Fund is an ambitious programme that places decision-making power directly in the hands of communities across Greater Manchester, enabling local groups to decide how health and wellbeing funding is best used in their area. Rather than prescribing solutions, the programme centres lived experience, local knowledge, and community-led change.
The storytelling challenge was not to produce a single, polished narrative but to document and make sense of a complex, evolving process while supporting learning, reflection, and evaluation across multiple stakeholders.
For 2026, the Live Well Fund will collaborate with the GM Mayor’s Charity to raise more investment, as healthy, supported communities are a preventive measure for tackling homelessness.
The film ‘Live Well Communities Fund’, produced by Brave Day, was shown to an audience of businesses and philanthropists at a recent GM Mayor’s Charity Event.
View Case Study 1 - GMCA & NHS Greater Manchester Live Well Communities Fund
Get To Know Where To Go
NHS Greater Manchester commissioned Brave Day to create a campaign video to share with the public, encouraging people to know where to go for treatment or urgent care. Brave Day produced the script, filmed and edited the main campaign video, which was then repurposed into several short social media clips.
NHS Greater Manchester
Cervical Screening in South Asian Communities
Pendle West Primary Care Network (Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Partnership)
Pendle West PCN commissioned Brave Day to create an awareness and educational video aimed at women in South Asian communities, who face health inequalities and inequity due to cultural and social barriers in accessing healthcare information and provision.
We worked with community champions in the area of Brierfield, Nelson - South Asian women who are supporting women in their communities to be informed and encouraged to attend health checks, in particular cervical screening appointments. The community-led approach to the film was successful in encouraging an uptake in smear test appointments.
200 Years of Creative Excellence
Celebratory and educational films commissioned by Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th anniversary celebrations.
Brave Day was commissioned to co-design and produce a series of short films celebrating the University’s long-standing influence on creativity, innovation, and social change.
Manchester Metropolitan University
What About Me?
Breaking Barriers Rochdale and Salford Community Leisure
Collaborative multimedia light-and-sound walk through Salford - sound designers, artists, composers, filmmakers, and photographers worked together to create a binaural audio and video projection night walk through a Salford park over several nights.
Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day, was a key partner, commissioned by producers Breaking Barriers to capture the video and photography, mentor to young company members, and create the video projections for the walk.
BBC Contains Strong Language Festival
BBC Radio and Drama
Festival highlights and documenting of project stories for BBC Radio and BBC Arts Contains Strong Language Festival, now in its 9th year.
Brave Day documented the three-day festival over several years, showcasing the creative community projects commissioned for it.
Ripples of Hope Festival
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation and Curious Minds
An interactive multimedia e-book, documentary and educational videos commissioned by the RFK Human Rights Foundation, as part of the ‘Ripples of Hope Festival’ held at HOME Manchester - featuring international performances and speakers.
Brave Day co-created several short films with international poets and an interactive multimedia e-book featuring poetry submissions from acclaimed international poets and writers, along with follow-up learning videos and resources.
Poetry and Misogyny
Manchester Metropolitan University
An educational film and learning resource - documenting Manchester Met University’s response to the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence Festival.
The film explores gender-based violence through the lens of language, poetry and creative activism. The festival was organised by award-winning poet, writer and Manchester Met Senior Lecturer, Dr Kim Moore, with the aim of raising awareness of gender-based violence and the language of misogyny, partnering with Manchester Women’s Aid. It also examines how poetry can serve as a tool for social change.
Performance and Poetry
A creative learning resource commissioned by BBC and The Open University. Brave Day worked with Producer Caroline Kelly to create 3 films featuring prominent poets, performers, and writers asking, “What is Performance Poetry?” The learning resources supplemented a Kae Tempest documentary aired on BBC 2
connect.open.ac.uk/history-and-the-arts/being-kae-tempest
Open University and BBC Learning
I Like To Move; I Move What I Can
Hull Dance Company
A multi-disciplinary creative health and wellbeing storytelling project, commissioned by Hull Dance producing dance films that brought together women living with limited movement to share their stories.
The project was a collaboration between choreographers, a community dance group, a music composer, and filmmaker (Brave Day).
The project involved several months of developmental movement, playful and emotive storytelling, taking inspiration from stories connected to treasured objects, and well-being sessions. Supported by the Flourish dance group, the films culminate in the women’s progression and the courage to share their dance stories on film.
This Landscape Is Ours
Breaking Barriers Rochdale and IOU Creation Centre
A collaboration between sound designers, artists, music composers, filmmakers and photographers to create a binaural audio night walk through Halifax city centre, with pop-up video projections.
The narrative captures the stories of over 40 people living in Calderdale.
All video projection content produced by Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day.
The Roots Programme
The Roots Programme organisation
Brave Day documented the innovative exchange programme between a Manchester-based private and state school to break down barriers, and nurture compassion, connection and empathy.
The Roots Programme seeks to break down barriers and bring people together.
https://rootsprogramme.org