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Jemma Channing is an occupational therapist and now Health & Wellbeing Coordinator for Canterbury Museums and Galleries. She introduces her expanding work with people with mental health problems at The Beaney.

This month is 'Movember', a good month to consider men's mental health. We ask how well men are represented in creative activities that support our mental health and wellbeing.

The RPO has been training music leaders from ethnically diverse communities to work in mental health settings in Brent, NW London. This blog reflects on the programme, including the challenges these settings present.

We are awarding 13 new grants - out of a very strong field - this week to Global Majority led arts organisations who want to develop their work with people with mental health problems. The Chair of our Arts Committee explains the decision-making.

JENGbA is campaigning to support the 1,500 prisoners serving life sentences convicted as secondary parties and to change the law on joint enterprise. Here's an update on their work from campaign coordinator Gloria Morrison.

Here are 20 questions we are asking ourselves as we continue to develop our funding programme for Arts and Mental Health. Are they the right questions? What would you add?

Baring Foundation trustee, Emebet Wuhib-Mugungi, reports on the findings of an independent review of anti-racism and anti-colonialism in our International Development programme.

Our learning partners looked into our grantees’ use of legal action to address discrimination and disadvantage. To mark the launch of their report, we asked five grantees to reflect on how the pandemic impacted their legal action work.

Singing for our Minds is a training development programme for ethnically diverse singing & choir leaders interested in working in mental health settings. Its co-creator Jeremy Haneman explains how the programme works.

The Baring Foundation's Director and Arts programme manager, David Cutler, weaves a golden thread through the world of therapeutic sewing, from early occupational therapy for veterans of WW1 to some great projects today.