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Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium win at Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance awards 2022
Artlift is one of the founding members of the Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium, together with The Music Works, Art Shape, Cinderford Artspace and Mindsong. Today we are so proud and very humbled to be winners of the Collective Power Award in the...
Referrals deadline for Artlift’s January 2023 courses – 30th November 2022
Our referrals deadline (30th November) is fast approaching, meaning it’s time to get your healthcare referrals in to us to secure that place on a course in January. We know here that attending Artlift really does change lives, so come & join us & find out for...
Men’s Health Month November 2022 – Peter’s experience
Create Well participant, 2022 Peter was referred to our Create Well Artlift Mental health support course. We spoke with Peter about how he found his Artlift experience. He attended two Artlift courses, one in Stroud (painting, photography and drawing), then a second...
Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium – Providing Creative Health in Gloucestershire during Lockdown
NEW PAPER RELEASE Artlift are one of the five founding partners of the Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium. Between us we offer a wide range of creative ‘Arts on Prescription’ options to individuals living in Gloucestershire, helping them to manage their health...
Meet our Trustee: Charlie Royall
Today it's Charlie's turn to tell about her experience as an Artlift Trustee: When I joined the board of Artlift I had never had much involvement in the charity sector, and I wasn’t sure what I would be able to contribute at board level. Had the Artlift team not been...
Meet our Trustee: Dr Joanna Wilde
Today Joanna talks to us about her experiences as a trustee with Artlift: I live in Cheltenham and started as a trustee for Artlift this summer (2022). I was diagnosed with late-stage cancer just before the pandemic and decided to study in textile arts at the OCA to...
Variety and Accessibility of Mental Health Support: Artlift research student’s first thoughts
Muhiba Delkic is currently studying towards a Master’s degree by Research in Psychological Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire and in collaboration with Artlift. Muhiba tells us how she arrived at her research topic, along with her first thoughts around her...
Becoming an Artlift Trustee – A Conversation with Executive Director: Cath Wilkins
In this Trustees Week 2022 Cath Wilkins, our Executive Director gives us some insight into her experience of working with Trustees, the dedication Artlift has to continued diversity within our board along with a call out for new board members. 'I've been in the...
On Being a Black Artist – Annet Richards-Binns
Annet is a dance and carnival artist, a yoga, and a FitSteps teacher amongst many other things! She is also an Artlift Artist Facilitator, who is currently co-producing our research project exploring the impact of dance on adults living with chronic pain. Here Annet...
Flourish Magazine: Reflections on a deeply connecting conference by Liz Butler
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
On Being A Black Artist – Ronnie McGrath
Ronnie McGrath, Artist Facilitator with Artlift, describes himself as 'A creator of words and images – a writer and poet who also paints and exhibits,' discusses with us his experience of being a black artist: 'Ultimately the term ‘black’, which used to include Asians...
Flourish Magazine: Where is she? A poem by Nina Moore
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
