Our Express Yourself project, using dance and theatre as an alternative way to support communication and connection for adults with neurological conditions, had been shortlisted for an Advancing Healthcare Awards Cymru 2025. Out of around 100 entries across all categories, we’d somehow found ourselves in the final three for Excellence in Rehabilitation.

This summer, most of my Latch work that’s taking place is in the shape of pop-up workshops, one-off, themed, 60 - 90-minute sessions with children/ families I may or may not have met before. There’s no long-term development plan, no time to track progress or improvement. Instead, it’s about the moment, the gathering, the exchange, the feeling. And I absolutely love it.

There’s an old saying here in Wales: ask a Welsh person who they’re supporting, and they’ll say, “Wales, or whoever’s playing against England.” It’s a half-joke, half-truth we wear lightly, rooted in a bit of friendly rivalry and a lot of national pride. Cymru am byth.

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a project that asked me to wear two hats: one as project manager, curating and overseeing drama workshops in Newtown and Brecon for people with communication difficulties and the other as a movement facilitator, leading the Brecon-based movement sessions.

I’ve always felt deep down: that so much of who we are, how we behave, and how we learn is rooted in our physicality. And yet, the world we’re living in gives less and less space for that to thrive.