Blog

The benefits of the arts for mental health are increasingly recognised, but they need to be much better funded.

Underfunding for LGBTI rights globally must be at the top of the UK Government's to-do list as it plans its first-ever Global Conference on LGBT Rights in June 2022.

We join Astraea in celebrating LGBTQI grassroots organizers globally: their inspiring work to resist violence and discrimination, change laws and provide essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lockdown has underlined the huge value of creativity particularly for those living in care homes. What would it require for all care homes to offer their residents access to relevant creative and cultural opportunities on a daily basis?

How artists, activists and creative organisations like Words of Colour are challenging racism in the arts sector and developing alternative structures that nurture the creative wellbeing and careers of artists of colour.

In 2015, UCL students at the Centre for Access to Justice helped to collect evidence for a Supreme Court intervention which helped other young people access higher education.

The Director of the Global Philanthropy Project discusses GPP's work as well as and his hopes and concerns for the LGBTI+ communities in the Global South and East that GPP funders come together to support.

Sandra Griffiths, founder of The Red Earth Collective, shares her journey in arts and mental health and the work of Red Earth which uses the arts to start conversations about mental health with racialised and marginalised communities.

How litigation, campaigning and advocacy, and working with the Equality Human Rights Commission helped secure the right of refugees to domestic violence protection.

Sometimes the law isn't enough! North East Law Centre's Families Through Crisis works with community partners to support families holistically to solve other practical issues such as access to foodbanks and healthcare services.