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20 October 2025

Invitation to tender: Every Care Home a Creative Home – advocacy initiative

We are making up to £200,000 available for an advocacy initiative to increase the appreciation and availability of creative opportunities in all care homes in England.
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The Baring Foundation is making a maximum of £200,000 (including VAT expenses and fees) available over three years for one or more organisations to run an advocacy initiative to encourage policy makers, funders, regulators and other decision-makers to set out concrete ways to value creativity in all care homes in England.

We welcome interest from a wide variety of organisations or collaboratives with suitable expertise, including arts and or health and social care bodies, research bodies and think-tanks. The successful applicant/s will be knowledgeable about creativity in the context of care homes for older people and able to convince senior decision makers to make changes to broaden and deepen arts in care homes.

Further details and information about how to apply are in the Tender Document.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on 17 December.

We will be holding an online meeting for interested applicants on 11 November 3-4pm. You can register for the meeting here.

(Photo: Bridgeside Lodge Care Home (North London) resident John talks with activities coordinator Yvette Photo © Hannah Lovell, courtesy of The Spitz.)