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

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

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

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

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.

Practical ideas for getting a creative programme in a care home off the ground, and how an arts offer can support homes in CQC assessments.

On the day of a major conference on creative ageing in Newcastle, we are publishing two new reports to celebrate the movement's achievements and to look forward to its future.

"Hostile environments aren’t conducive to good mental health. Supportive, caring artists and creativity are." This new report by Counterpoints Arts highlights the importance of the arts for refugees experiencing trauma and poor mental health.

Targeted engagement by museums with people with mental health problems is relatively rare, despite a strong commitment to inclusivity and wellbeing. This new report makes the case - through a series of case studies - for more work in this area.

Access to arts and culture for England's 419,000 older people living in care homes is currently a lottery. Our new report shows how a systems approach - involving both arts and social care - could help change this.