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"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.

Grants of up to £50,000 over 18 months are available for work which uses legal action to address racial injustice in all aspects of the criminal justice system by organisations based and working in the North of England.

Our 2022 Report on Activities reports on our grantmaking for the year, which totalled over £3.3million.

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.

A new report by Flourishing Lives evaluates free reflective practice sessions for artists from 12 organisations working in mental health.

The Baring Foundation is one of a group of funders who have commissioned the Social Change Initiative to help inform the future of funding for human rights in Scotland.

Join us on 9 September for a special event on arts, culture and creativity in care in Finland

New grants awarded include 13 to organisations using legal action to address racial injustice in the criminal justice system and ten to expert legal hub organisations working with civil society.

A new report finds that the law can be a powerful tool for anti-racist campaigners and CSOs, but it can be harder to use in practice.