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Search results for Report on Activities

27 September 2017

The role of local authorities and creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler introduces a new report on the contribution local authorities can make to ensuring that older people can age as creatively as they deserve.
Blog post: Arts
10 January 2023

The benefits of creativity for care staff

David Cutler
Bringing arts and creativity into care settings can benefit everyone. David Cutler reflects on the benefits for care staff.
Blog post: Arts
23 May 2018

Arts and culture are vital threads in the fabric of living

Sir Nick Serota
In Dementia Awareness Week, Nick Serota says we must make sure that these threads are sustained through later life.
Blog post: Arts
13 July 2020

Clinging on in a tsunami

François Matarasso
Arts and health projects are vital in helping people cope and recover from the pandemic and its consequences - but the DCMS rescue package - welcome though it is - may not reach the small organisations and artists who do this work.
Blog post: Arts
19 February 2020

Art is a map back to yourself: Dolly Sen on the launch of Creatively Minded

Artist Dolly Sen makes the case for the role of creativity in the lives of people with mental health problems to launch our new report - Creatively Minded: an initial mapping study of participatory arts and mental health activity in the UK.
Blog post: Arts
26 November 2018

Saitama Gold Theatre – leading the world in ambition for creative ageing

David Cutler
David Cutler is inspired by a visit to the World Gold Theatre festival last month in Saitama, Japan.
Blog post: Arts
2 January 2019

Final reflections on the Civil Society Futures inquiry

Julia Unwin, Civil Society Futures
Julia Unwin, Chair of Civil Society Futures (the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society), offers some reflections following the launch of the Inquiry's findings in November.
Blog post: Independent Inquiry into the future of civil society
15 May 2019

Exploring social isolation through art in the older Chinese community

Older Chinese communities in the UK often experience high levels of social and cultural isolation. The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester is exploring how it can re-engage with its older people through art.
Blog post: Arts
20 May 2021

Creatively minded – looking beyond the pandemic and the need for more funding

David Cutler
The benefits of the arts for mental health are increasingly recognised, but they need to be much better funded.
Blog post: Arts
8 February 2023

Past, present, and future: the Strengthening Civil Society programme

Jannat Hossain
In this blog, the Foundation’s Programmes Officer shares an update on our programme supporting UK civil society to use the law in their pursuit of social change, including our priorities for 2023.
Blog post: Strengthening Civil Society