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Baring Foundation Director, David Cutler, welcomes the new Civil Society Covenant launched last week.

Our new report uncovers a vibrant, if under-resourced, scene of visual arts for and by people with mental health problems in both community and hospital settings.

This week, we said goodbye to our Chair and two long-serving trustees and welcomed a new Chair, Vice Chair and three new members of the Board.

These new Singing for our Minds podcasts from Together Productions explore the art of leading and nurturing mental health inclusive choirs and singing groups.

The joint Creative Minds Fund between Museums and Galleries Scotland and the Baring Foundation has awarded six grants to organisations in Scotland to deliver creative projects with people with mental health problems.

Together with Kaapeli arts centre in Finland, we are piloting an International Creative Ageing Network to share practice and make connections with colleagues from around the world.

Aaliya Seyal, Hilary Hodgson and Nick Capaldi will join our Board of Trustees in June.

Grants are available for legal action addressing racial injustice - with a focus on police in schools, repression of protest and challenging legislation which disproportionately criminalises racialised people.

Nine new grants have been awarded by our Strengthening Civil Society programme to support legally expert 'hub' organisations working alongside civil society.

This new multi-donor Fund supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and leading private foundations, including the Baring Foundation, has awarded its first grants.