Queercircle launches a new health and well-being programme this autumn as part of its exploration of the potentials of 'queering creative health'. Queercircle is a new LGBTQ+ arts organisation that opened four months ago, based in the Design District, North…
Aesop Arts and Society created and manage this platform. Live Music Now, Sing to Beat and The Reader all helped shape its development. Financial support was given The National Lottery Community Fund. The aim of the platform is to enable social prescribers and members of…
The Centre for Cultural Value is reopening its Collaborate fund to support the development of innovative new projects between UK-based cultural sector practitioners and academic researchers. Collaborate was launched in 2021 with the commitment of investing £200,000 into the UK cultural sector over…
This conference, organised by The Creative Ageing Development Agency (CADA) for England was hosted in partnership with the Baring Foundation, the City of Helsinki and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Presentations and panels from the conference have been shared on…
At GM i-THRIVE we are preparing the children and young people’s workforce to deliver creative, arts-led provision across the system (health and social care, education and the voluntary sector), via clinical care pathways with CAMHS Services (Child and Adolescent Mental…
Political and other types of refugees form a group with added vulnerability to developing mental illness, thought to be due to a complex interaction of social, biological and psychological factors, playing out over the lifespan and across communities. Anecdotal reports…
A child's first visit to a hospital has the potential to be an unsettling one, full of new people with strange equipment, in a place where they will not know what to expect or what is expected of them. In…
About the Social Role of the Artist Survey By completing this survey, you will be helping us inform our next research review looking into the social role of the artist. Your feedback will help us make sure our research in…
This toolkit has been developed by NAPA and My Home Life UK to support and build on positive working relationships between Activity Providers and Care Home Leaders, to enhance wellbeing and community connectedness for the care setting. Read the toolkit…
The Otakar Kraus Music Trust and The Wild Mind Project are teaming up to offer a free-of-charge well-being support opportunity to young people aged 16-25, starting Sunday 11th September. Incorporating nature-based, creative activities and music therapy, the sessions invite young people experiencing stress,…
