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18 May 2020

Creatively Minded – a lockdown update

David Cutler reflects on the ingenuity of the particpatory arts sector as it adapts to going online and looks forward to our first funding round for Arts & Mental Health in July.
Blog post: Arts
11 September 2020

Our first round of grants for arts and mental health

David Cutler
We are delighted to be awarding 87 new grants this week to organisations working in arts and mental health. Here the Director of the Foundation and of our Arts Programme explains the thinking behind the awards we have made.
Blog post: Arts
3 March 2021

Creatively minded and green

Many arts and mental health organisations combine the healing powers of creativity and nature. David Cutler rounds up a few here - from the quiet places in Manchester to some of the UK's most beautiful countryside.
Blog post: Arts
24 March 2021

Art is one of the ways in which people come to see people with lived experience differently

Sandra Griffiths
Sandra Griffiths, founder of The Red Earth Collective, shares her journey in arts and mental health and the work of Red Earth which uses the arts to start conversations about mental health with racialised and marginalised communities.
Blog post: Arts
27 February 2023

Museums supporting mental health: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dulwich Picture Gallery is one of the museums and galleries leading the way in health and wellbeing. Jane, Kelly and Alex introduce Together Through Art which trains young people to work on the Gallery's schools' programmes.
Blog post: Arts
8 December 2021

Arts, creativity and trauma

Harriet Lowe
Many of the organisations we know work creatively with people with post-traumatic stress, with mental health problems and trauma often deeply entwined. This blog explores arts and creativity particularly with veterans but more widely too.
Blog post: Arts
23 September 2022

Every care home a creative home

David Cutler
How a systems approach involving both arts and social care sectors could make arts, culture and creativity an everyday experience in many more of England's care homes.
Resource: Arts
12 April 2024

Brighton’s Creatively Minded Men: projects by Fabrica

With a higher than average male suicide rate, Brighton & Hove Public Health first invested in a Men's Shed run by arts organisation, Fabrica, now vastly oversubscribed. Fabrica's Clare Hankinson shares their model.
Blog post: Arts
9 July 2024

Creatively Minded Men – what happened next?

We are awarding 32 new grants - out of a very strong field - this week to organisations who want engage more men in creative mental health. The Director of the Foundation explains the decision-making.
Blog post: Arts
15 February 2024

Creatively Minded Men

David Cutler & Harriet Lowe
Exploring men’s participation in arts and mental health activities.
Resource: Arts