How Group Singing is Helping New Mums with Postnatal Depression
Absolutely Mama finds out how group singing is helping new mothers recover from postnatal depression… If you’re a new mum, you’ve probably sat on the floor of your local children’s centre singing Wheels on the Bus, babies happily rolling around…
Launch of Prescribe-arts platform
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…
Collaborate: Second round of funding announced
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…
Ageing Artfully going Global Conference
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…
A Collection of infographics on arts and health
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…
Research Tender: Singing with refugees and young unaccompanied minors
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…
The Social Role of the Artist – have your say!
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…
New toolkit: Co-Creating a Culture of Engagement and Wellbeing
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…