Blog

In this blog, our Programmes Manager, Jannat, outlines plans for our Strengthening Civil Society programme in 2025 and beyond.

Portraits of Recovery in Manchester is a visual arts charity supporting people affected by and in recovery from substance use – find out more in this blog by its founder and director, Mark Prest.

Understanding the effects of trauma helps our cultural spaces to be welcoming to all audiences, writes museums and wellbeing consultant, Louise Thompson.

Our Chair of Trustees, Lucy de Groot, reflects on the Baring Foundation's 2024.

Find out more about Workman Arts, a Toronto-based arts and mental health organisation, which runs the Rendezvous with Madness festival every year.

David Cutler, Foundation Director and Arts programme lead, shares his concerns about funding for arts and health. We'd love to hear your thoughts too.

Jim Webster of Streetwise Community Circus in Belfast introduces their circus skills programmes for older people in the community and in care homes, and explains why circus is good for both physical and mental health.

In September this year, Hong Kong staged its first Creative Ageing Festival, with a UK (and specifically Leeds) / Hong Kong partnership at its heart...

A lot of new and expectant mums experience perinatal mental health issues to some degree, but arts interventions for them are relatively rare. Here are some of the ones we know about.

Ariane Adam, Head of Legal at HDT, introduces their new report which examines the criminalisation of lesbian and bisexual women (in 40 countries worldwide) and its impacts, and aims to support legal reform efforts.