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air - arts to aid wellbeing at Derby Hospitals
air is Derby Hospitals arts charity developed to provide positive distraction and enhance the hospital environment.
Arts and Business
Arts Derbyshire
Arts Events and Information within Derbyshire
Arts and Health East
Arts and Health East is a new regional network designed to bring together those with an interest in the role the arts can play in promoting and sustaining community cohesion and individual health and wellbeing and contributing to recovery and reduced dependence in people who have been ill and disabled.
Aliss
[a.n] The Artists Information Company
[a.n] provides information, advice and debate for visual and applied artists. Subscription scheme applies.
Arts and Health South West
Arts & Health South West is an organisation for everyone interested in the Arts and Health sector in the South West of England. Our aim is to raise the profile and influence the development of the Arts and Health sector across the region as well as provide information and support.
Arts and Humanities Research Board
The Arts and Humanities Research Board provides funding and support in three programmes: advanced research; postgraduate research and training; and special funding for museums, galleries and collections.
Architects for Health
Aims to achieve excellence and appropriateness in the provision of healthcare facilities. Features discussion forum, news and regular updates.
Arts Hub
Artsinmind is a new service developed by Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage.
The service provides arts and heritage activities to improve the quality of life of older people who are living with dementia or cognitive difficulties.
Artsnet!
A central resource for artists and arts professionals in the West Midlands.
Arts Council England
The Arts Council of England is the national development agency for the arts and as such is responsible for developing, sustaining and promoting the arts in England
Arts Council England, West Midlands
West Midlands is one of nine regional offices of Arts Council England, covering Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Stoke-on-Trent and the West Midlands Metropolitan Districts.
Arts into Health Walsall
An innovative partnership between Walsall Community Arts Team, Walsall PCT and Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council.
Arts4Health Derby
Arts 4 Health is collaboration between Derby QUAD and NHS Derby City which uses creative approaches to improve health and reduce health inequalities of marginalised groups and communities in Derby city.
Arts for Health - Manchester Metropolitan University
Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University is the UK's longest established arts and health organisation. With specialism in research, advocacy and development it is working with Arts Council England and the Department of Health and a range of partners to better understand the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on health and well-being.
Arts Professional
Arts Professional is a leading journal for the arts and cultural industries. As well as articles about arts management, it is a key source of job opportunities for the industry. There is an online version of the magazine.
Axis
An online resource for contemporary art
Big Difference Company
Big Difference Company is the same dedicated people, committed to the same life changing schemes and projects: helping men to take their health seriously; encouraging school children to eat sensibly; planting trees in The National Forest, reducing carbon emissions; improving the life skills and confidence of people. The work of widening smiles goes on. The name may be new – but for Big Difference Company it’s funny business as usual.
Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies
To ensure that quality arts therapies are established and maintained initially throughout the U.K., but also extending to an international service.
Borderland Voices
Borderland Voices is an arts and mental health group based in the Staffordshire Moorlands which works with any interested adults.
Breakthrough Art
Breakthrough Art is a community interest company that promotes positive mental health through the creative arts.
British Arts
Gateway to a broad range of information on the visual, performing and literary arts, includes access to online arts magazines, information on funding and links to online galleries.
British Arts Festival Association
This site includes a calendar and directory with contact details and dates of over 100 member festivals.
British Association of Art Therapists
The British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) provides details of news and events, careers and training, and useful courses.
British Medical Association
The BMA represents all doctors from all branches of medicine all over the UK. About 80% of practising doctors are members, as are 12,000 medical students and nearly 4,000 members overseas.
CAHHM : Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine
The Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine is an independent research and evaluation resource based in the University of Durham. CAHHM investigates and promotes the practical applications and benefits of arts and humanities in healthcare. CAHHM's ultimate aims are to encourage change in the way we learn, work and communicate in healthcare, and to build trusting creative partnerships between professionals and public.
Care Trusts
Care Trusts work in both health and social care.
City Arts
City Arts is a creative enterprise and charity based in Nottingham. We work with people from local communities, using creative arts to build confidence, well being, skills and enjoyment. Our activities bring people together, stimulate change and create stronger, healthier communities.
Craftspace
Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft.
Critical Connections
The arts and health development programme for Yorkshire and the Humber.
Creative Stoke
A directory of 800+ creatives who work in & around the city of Stoke-on-Trent
Culture and Wellbeing
Culture and Wellbeing is designed to act as a signpost to help you to find individuals and organisations which are using the arts to influence health, the research and guidelines which support this work and other sources of information about all aspects of arts, creativity and wellbeing.
Department of Health (DoH)
This site provides links to other health related sites and materials produced by and for the DOH.
Disabled Artists Advisors Network
Durham University - The Centre for Medical Humanities
The Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University The Medical Humanities is an emerging field of enquiry in which the perspectives of humanities and social sciences perspectives are brought to bear upon an exploration of the human side of medicine. These perspectives have a key role to play in analysing our expectations of medicine, and the relationship between medicine and our broader ideas of health, well-being and flourishing.
Education Arts Service West Midlands
Education Arts Service West Midlands is the new, free, regional resource supporting arts and cultural learning for children and young people, both in and out of school. As well as information, guidance and news, EAS West Midlands offers teachers, educators, youth workers, arts practitioners and creative industry professionals the practical tools you need to develop projects and collaborate!
Exeter Healthcare Arts
The EHCA has three main strands: Exhibiting artists’ work in public and clinical areas within hospitals, Environmental schemes in public and clinical areas within hospitals and Live arts events for the public at large and within the wards of hospitals
Foundation for Community Dance
The national development agency for community dance. This agency has strong ties with the West Midlands and has undertaken national research into dance and health. The Foundation has contributed to national and regional initiatives in support of professional development for artists working within a health setting
Full Circle Arts
Full Circle Arts are a disability arts development agency. The website includes news items, advice on funding and disability equality and links to other sites.
gn-arts
Features arts and health projects from across the UK.
Government Art Collection
The Government Art Collection is a unique British cultural resource. Works of art from the Collection are displayed in British Government buildings both in the United Kingdom and around the world, playing a significant role in promoting British art and culture across diverse and international environments.
health.culture.info – Creativity, Culture, the Arts and Health
Manchester Metropolitan University’s Arts for Health is very pleased to present this portal which we hope will be a resource which adds to the sharing of knowledge and improved understanding of the relationships between the arts and health.
Healthy, Social, Creative
The site has been created by Voluntary Arts, to raise awareness of the wealth of creative activities that exist in local communities – from choirs to quilt- makers, dance groups to painting societies, drama groups to samba bands – and the health benefits of taking part.
Josie Aston
Freelance arts manager who specialises in research and project management, especially in the field of arts and health.
LIME (formerly Hospital Arts)
Lime’s mission is to initiate and deliver quality arts in health projects
Lit Net
A virtual literature centre for the West Midlands and beyond. The site includes news of festivals, events and competitions as well as a section dedicated to writing and health.
Live Music Now
Live Music Now aims to promote the enjoyment and experience of live music amongst people who would not normally have access to it and to assist gifted young professional musicians at the outset of their careers.
London Arts in Health Forum (LAHF)
London Arts in Health Forum is a membership based networking organisation for health and arts professionals and health-related organisations. The Forum’s primary activity is the sharing of expertise, experience, information and ideas - face to face, on paper and online.
Mesothelioma Symptoms
Used as a complement to traditional medicine and therapy, many experts believe art therapy can help people express, and thereby better manage, pain and feelings that have arisen as a result of a variety of issues, including cancers such as mesothelioma. Under the care of a professional, patients diagnosed with mesothelioma and other cancers, might benefit by engaging in art therapy in accordance with other treatments.
Mental Health Foundation
The site is run by the Mental Health Foundation the leading UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities.
Mind the Gap
Formed in 1988, Mind the Gap has become the largest disability related theatre company outside of London.
MK Arts for Health
Enhancing health and healing through creativity
Multistory
Multistory’s work is focused on the development of participatory arts projects of the highest creative standard in the fields of learning, health and regeneration to bring benefits to communities, organisations and artists in Sandwell and the West Midlands.
Music In Hospitals
Music in Hospitals is a registered charity, established in 1948, which presents live concerts throughout the UK for people of all ages in hospitals, hospices, care homes, day care centres and special needs schools.
National Disability Arts Forum
NDAF aims to make the arts more accessible for disabled people and to create equality of opportunity for disabled people in all aspects of the arts
NHS Direct
24hr phone line staffed by nurses.
Outside In
Outside In aims to provide a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world either because of mental health issues, disability, health or social circumstance.
Paintings in Hospitals
PIH is a registered charity providing works of art on loan to hospitals, hospices and other healthcare facilities to enhance the healing environment for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.
Platform 51 supports girls and women as they take control of their lives
Girls and women today face problems that are often subtle or misunderstood. Despite shifts in attitude and changes in the law, women are often unheard, isolated and face discrimination. This is costly both to women and to society.
PraXis
Creative dialogue for participatory arts across the West Midlands.
Qube
Qube is a rural arts and health focused centre located in Shropshire. It is a fully accessible creative centre which acts as a forum for ideas, an exhibition space for new work, a gallery for emerging and established artists and a link to other centres of arts learning and practice.
RNIB
Royal National Institute for the Blind
RNID
Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Sanity Fair
Promotes and explores the positive aspects of mental health. Sanity Fair is an annual celebratory arts event taking place in Hanley, Stoke on Trent.
SciArt
Encourages collaboration between the arts and sciences.
SEAHP - South East Arts and Health
The natural home for anyone with a commitment to developing Arts, Health and Wellbeing across the South East region to tackle underlying health inequalities.
Sex and Drugs and Rock and... Health
Sex and Drugs and Rock... and Health is a website dedicated to using social marketing and edutainment (entertainment/education) to tackle health inequalities and promote health services.
Shape
Shape a national charity which opens up access to the arts, enabling greater participation by disabled and older people.
Sound Sense
Sound Sense is the national development agency for community music.
Start
Start in Manchester is an Arts and Mental Health Project for Adults
The Bromley by Bow Centre
The country’s first Healthy Living Centre, where artists and GPs work side by side to improve the health of the local community.
The Crafts Council
The Crafts Council is the UK’s national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts. It is an independent body funded by the Arts Council of England, responsible for promoting fine craftsmanship, encouraging high standards and increasing public awareness of contemporary crafts and applied arts.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)
The Department for Culture Media and Sport web site includes a host of information on Government policy on the arts, and includes links to other related web sites.
The King's Fund
The King's Fund is a charity that seeks to understand how the health system in England can be improved.Using that insight, we help to shape policy, transform services and bring about behaviour change.
Nordoff Robbins
Nordoff Robbins is the charity that specialises in transforming the lives of children and adults constrained by illness, disability, trauma or isolation, through the power of music. Clap your hands. Tap your feet. Sing out loud. Dance or stomp. Shout or cry. We all react to music in different ways. But we all react. Because music has a universal power to reach us, touch us and make us feel different.
The Nuffield Trust
Grants funds for research and policy studies in the health services. Details research grants, seminars, and current and future publications.
The National Health Service NHS
The Poetry Society
Includes an excellent links section and information on writing resources worldwide.
Quiet Mindz
Integrative Therapeutic Counselling / Psychotherapy
The Royal Society for the Arts
The RSA has a unique, wide-ranging and multidisciplinary programme that takes in the full sweep of expertise and innovation in a host of fields - from art to industry, from education to entrepreneurship, from environment to design
The Rural Media Company
Tonic
Tonic is an arts in health programme which uses the arts for the benefit of patients and staff in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The University of Nottingham - Arts and Community Cohesion Case Studies
This website hosts case studies of arts projects in the Nottingham area that have actively promoted social cohesion in and between communities.
Vital Arts
Vital Arts delivers a programme of integrated arts projects for the comfort, healing and wellbeing of patients, staff and the wider hospital community of arts and The London NHS Trust.
Voluntary Arts Network (VAN)
VAN aims to promote participation in the arts and crafts, recognising that they are a key part of our culture and that they are vital to our health, social and economic development.
Wellcome Trust
An independent research funding charity that aims to improve human and animal health
West Midlands Disability Arts Forum
Willis Newson
The UK’s leading independent arts consultancy specialising in arts and health
2010healthandwellbeing.org.uk
Throughout 2010 we will be showcasing events and activities that you can take part in that can have a positive impact on your health and wellbeing. Save this website in your favourites and come back regularly to find out what is happening in your area and across the region.