Arts and health links

Arts and Health in Derbyshire
 The minisite for the Derbyshire Arts, Health and Mental Wellbeing group, where you can find more detail about what’s going on in Derbyshire including local groups, plus wider arts and health news, advice, publications and information. To sign up to this group’s e-newsletter contact arts.team@derbyshire.gov.uk

Some groups working in Arts and Health who are based in Derbyshire:
Arthur and Martha: www.arthur-and-martha.co.uk
Cathy Grindrod: www.cathygrindrod.co.uk
First Taste: www.firsttastecharity.co.uk
Glassball Arts: www.glassball.org.uk
Harlequin Arts: www.harlequinarts.co.uk
High Peak Community Arts: www.highpeakarts.org
Junction Arts: www.junctionarts.org
People Express: www.people-express.org.uk

More links:

Age Exchange London-based Age Exchange works with older people nationally to improve their quality of life by valuing their reminiscences and giving them opportunities for wider appreciation in the form of visual and performance arts projects; intergenerational projects; exhibitions; publications; documentary film.

Arts & Minds Network 
The Arts & Minds Network aims to bring together people in Leeds who believe the arts can promote mental well-being and is open to anyone who wants to see the growth of arts and health.

Arts for Health  
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.

Big Difference Company 
Big Difference Company is a group who aim to improve the life skills and confidence of people, specialising in using comedy and humour alongside street arts.

Breakthrough – Art in Mental Health – showcasing people’s creative talents 
Breakthrough Art is a user led organisation that promotes positive mental health through the creative arts. It develops and influences national policy on art and mental health, shares positive practice and develops an international network for anyone with similar objectives.

Creative Remedies 
Creative Remedies is an arts and health website for Staffordshire and the West Midlands. It showcases projects, has a fully searchable contacts database, features current news and provides advice to those involved or wanting to become involved in arts and health activity. It demonstrates how the arts and health sectors can work together innovatively, using the arts to improve services in areas including Patient Care, Health Promotion, Staff Development and The Built Environment, and provides information on commissioning artists, fundraising, research and evaluation.

Culture and Wellbeing – using the arts to improve the nation’s health 
Culture and Wellbeing is a national resource for creativity and health.  It 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.

London Arts in Health Forum 
A membership organisation which aims to develop the role of culture in wellbeing and to promote and support arts in health activity across London and nationally.