Blog

Our Chair of Trustees, Lucy de Groot, reflects on the Baring Foundation's 2023.

How strategic litigation provides a new tool in a national charity’s arsenal towards tackling longstanding and deeply embedded injustice against Britain’s Romany Gypsy, Irish Traveller and nomadic communities.

There are relatively few examples of (good) film-making about mental health or participatory film-making for mental health: an area ripe for development?

Few artists from Global Majority communities work in mental health, despite being disproportionately represented among patients. ARRN is a group training & placement opportunity for artists who want to work in this field.

Greater Manchester's i-THRIVE Arts, Culture and Mental Health programme evaluation kit for creative interventions for young people was co-developed by multiple stakeholders including clinicians and arts organisations.

Finland has a national strategy which has helped it develop a much more proactive, consistent and strategic approach to creative ageing - could it work for the countries of the UK?

Sian Stevenson, creative director of Moving Memory Dance Company, explains why we need more creative programmes to be led and facilitated by older people.

The many stresses experienced by people working in the arts are frequently - and rightly - in the news. It's time for policymakers to step up to address this challenge.

Both CAMHS and the arts sector are under huge pressure but there are some inspiring examples of CAMHS/arts partnerships working together for the benefit of children and young people's mental health. Could there be more?

"What do you plan to do with ‘your one wild and precious life’"?? Highly recommended blog on the value of a creative (later) life by the CEO of Scottish Care, Donald Macaskill.