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22 November 2017

FabLab Belfast brings digital techniques, tea and community to older residents

Adam Wallace & Kerrie Hanna
The Digital Makers Collective run by FabLab in Belfast is bringing digital manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing to older artists and residents.
Arts
16 November 2017

How to use the law for social change

Shauneen Lambe, Just for Kids Law
Law and human rights based approaches are important tools for the voluntary sector; and there is already some research about how the voluntary sector can use it well.
Strengthening Civil Society
15 November 2017

What a difference a song makes: the Choir in Every Care Home project

Harriet Lowe
This project's work at Nightingale House in London shows the life and health-enhancing benefits of communal singing for older people living in residential care.
Arts
8 November 2017

A feast of creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler reflects on the growth and popularity of creative ageing festivals, from the national to the local and across art forms.
Arts
26 October 2017

Late opening – does the wealth of creative ageing projects in Scotland augur a cultural change?

Andrew Eaton-Lewis
Andrew Eaton-Lewis was commissioned by Luminate - Scotland's Creative Ageing Festival to document some of the excellent creative ageing projects happening across Scotland.
Arts
11 October 2017

Postcard from Finland: the old couple

David Cutler
On the wonderful creative and cultural opportunities for older people in Finland at the start of its first creative ageing festival, Armas.
Arts
27 September 2017

How can high quality arts in care homes can become the norm and not the noble exception?

David Cutler
A version of a speech delivered to a conference held by Nottingham City Council and the Imagine programme on 6 September 2017.
Arts
27 September 2017

The role of local authorities and creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler introduces a new report on the contribution local authorities can make to ensuring that older people can age as creatively as they deserve.
Arts
20 September 2017

Beyond hunger and the food bank: a new right to food

Kath Dalmeny & Koldo Casla
Hunger is not a thing of the past in the UK. Members of a new alliance explain what a right to food would mean for consumers and producers, and why now is the time to take it seriously.
Strengthening Civil Society
20 September 2017

The socio-economic duty: a human rights remedy against austerity and inequality

Koldo Casla, Just Fair
Why Just Fair is leading the #1forEquality campaign urging the UK government to adopt the socio-economic duty.
Strengthening Civil Society