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
Multi-layered storytelling for learning, evaluation, and change
This is a current live project, starting July 2025 - completion March 2026
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.
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
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
RFK Human Rights Foundation
Brave Day were commissioned by RFK Human Rights Foundation to create multiple pieces of video and audio content for the 3 day festival held at HOME Manchester, with international perfomances and speakers.
Brave Day also created an interactive multimedia e-book of poetry submissions by acclaimed international poets and writers, as well as follow up learning videos and resources.
Poetry and Misogyny
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University explores gender-based violence and language through poetry and activism. The documentary film by Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day, documents the University’s response to the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence Festival, organised by award-winning poet, writer and Manchester Met Senior Lecturer, Dr Kim Moore.
The film aimed to raise awareness of gender-based violence and the language of misogyny, partnering with Manchester Women’s Aid. It also looks at how poetry can be a tool for social change.
Performance and Poetry
Brave Day worked with Producer Caroline Kelly to create 3 films with prominent poets, performers and writers asking ‘What is Performance Poetry?” for a learning resource commissioned by BBC and The Open University to supplement the 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 storytelling project, commissioned by Hull Dance in collaboration with choreographers, a dance group, and a composer. Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day, produced four dance films for a project that brought together women living with limited movement to share their stories.
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