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24 May 2016

Inspiring change – the arts and older people in Ireland

François Matarasso
François Matarasso describes the magic of the Bealtaine festival for older people in the Republic of Ireland.
Blog post: 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
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
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
22 February 2017

Wellbeing in Later Life – what matters and who is thriving and who is just surviving?

David Cutler
Age UK's new Index of Wellbeing in Later Life shows the importance of cultural participation to older people's wellbeing.
Blog post: Arts
10 April 2017

Is it time to stop talking about independence?

Caroline Slocock, Civil Exchange
Caroline sums up the findings of the 6th annual health check on the independence of the voluntary sector - A Shared Society?
Blog post: Strengthening Civil Society
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
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
2 April 2020

Give those feelings ceilings – my reflections on art and mental health

George Harding
George Harding is the cover artist for Creatively Minded. In this blog he explains how he came to painting and the importance of organisations like Bethlem Gallery and the Studio Upstairs in helping people to be creative.
Blog post: Arts
14 January 2020

Getting the law habit: Transforming Lives

Chloe Hardy, Sheila McKechnie Foundation
Chloe offers reflections from a campaigning perspective on our new publication: Transforming Lives through Law - a collection of civil society organisations using legal tactics to make change.
Blog post: Strengthening Civil Society