In October 2018 Hospice Isle of Man launched its strategy, entitled ’Much More Than A Building’, and one of our five strategic goals is to ’Be sustainable and fit for the future’.

One of the ways we will be achieving this goal is through optimising our partnership- working and supporter base, in order to generate funds that will ensure we can always provide our services.

As such, we are delighted to be working in partnership with Wild in Art, a global leader in the creation of public art events, on our Wallabies Gone Wild trail.

Since 2008, Wild in Art has delivered over 56 events across four continents for many global events.

These include the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascot trails, Go Superlambananas! for Liverpool Capital of Culture ’08, Mali in the City as part of Melbourne Zoo’s 150th anniversary, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and Bee in the City in Manchester 2018.

We are extremely excited to be adding the Isle of Man to this list and look forward to launching our Wallabies Gone Wild trail on May 24.

Wild in Art trails have been followed by millions of people and since 2015 have had an economic impact of over £98 million through increasing footfall, attracting visitors and generating expenditure within local economies.

Their trails have also injected £1.8 million into local creative communities.

Working with the Arts Council, we are delighted to have supported so many local artists, designers, photographers, videographers and other creatives as we have brought Wallabies Gone Wild to life.

Wild in Art trails have engaged over 550,000 young people in learning programmes.

Over 20 schools on the island have been actively participating in our education programme and engaging with us on a regular basis and we can’t wait to display their amazing artwork as part of the trail.

There are significant impacts on health and wellbeing within communities with the trails encouraging more people getting out and about and spending time as a family.

The Hospice’s purpose is to help people to live well and so this element of the trail is something that fits very well with us as an organisation.

Finally, Wild in Art trails have enabled over £12 million to be raised for charitable causes through auctions, and we hope our auction in September will generate significant funds that will help keep us sustainable for the future.

For more information on Wild in Art, visit wildinart.co.uk

by Hospice Isle of man

www.hospice.org.im