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Join the International Creative Ageing Network (iCAN)

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.

15 November 2024

Celebrating the UK’s longest running creative ageing programme

This new report by Dr Una Lynch, commissioned by the Foundation and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, celebrates the success of ACNI's long-running Arts and Older People programme.

1 November 2024

What does a trauma-informed museum look like?

Manchester Art Gallery have spent the last year exploring this question and produced a web resource for other museums developing trauma-informed practice.

27 September 2024

Focus on museums: a new joint fund with Museums and Galleries Scotland

This new partnership fund for Scottish museums and galleries is part of our wider portfolio of support for museums and galleries working creatively with people with mental health problems.

32 new grants awarded to support more men to engage in creative mental health

These grants worth £1.4 million will support arts organisations across the UK to engage more men with mental health problems in their activities.

How do you make and commission work about mental health, including your own?

A new resource from the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is designed to aid performing artists, producers, programmers and participatory artists.

Be in the new UK creative ageing directory

Are you a UK arts organisation offering a regular creative activity to the over-60s?

Arts Council NI and the Baring Foundation launch new £600,000 Mental Health and Arts Progamme

Our new joint programme will fund support and training for artists and provide funding for new collaborations between artists and mental health providers.

New Arts & Mental Health partnerships with national Arts Councils

The Baring Foundation collaborated with all four national arts councils around arts and mental health in 2023.

1 December 2023

Designing programmes in mental health and addiction recovery – a new guide

This new series of podcasts by Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM) is designed to support museums and heritage professionals to set up creative programmes in mental health and addiction settings.