Building community
Every Corner Network
The Every Corner Network is a free monthly online group, managed by NAPA and The Southbank Centre, for anyone with an interest in arts in care provision.
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How To: Building community through the arts
Arts in Care Homes
User-friendly advice and tips on Building Community through arts.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
SCIE, NAPA
Written in association with NAPA, the SCIE website has a dedicated page aimed at encouraging participation in the arts for people living in care homes.
Packed full of information about a wide range of arts activities including creative writing, visual arts, dance, using puppets, sculpture, music, pottery, digital arts, gardening and everyday creativity.
Magic Me
Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together.
Watch a short film about Magic Me’s Cocktails in Care Homes project.
NAPA, National Activity Providers Association
NAPA is an expert in providing activities for people in care settings. NAPA staff and trainers are all experienced in the care industry, specifically in activity provision. To find available courses:
Entelechy Arts
Arts organisation based in Lewisham specialising in arts for older people. Entelechy and Meet Me at The Albany are holding Age Against the Machine, Festival of Creative Ageing, 13 September – 6 October.
Entelechy are running an event as part of National Day of Arts in Care Homes: A 21st Century Tea Dance at Alexander Care. Also look out for The Home: a 48-hour immersive experience which explores the care home as a place of reinvention and possibility.
Museum of Liverpool
Museum of Liverpool has helped developed the House of Memories App and associated activities, resources and dementia training.
Royal Albert Hall
Education & Outreach at the in the Royal Albert Hall includes dementia friendly film screenings, tea dances and Royal Albert Hall Songbook – one hour concerts for care homes in London and the London Home counties.
Find out more about all available activities
Arts 4 Dementia
Arts 4 Dementia is a UK charity, working with arts venues to:
- Provide training and develop arts programmes.
- Empower and inspire people with early-stage dementia and carers through artistic stimulation.
- Help preserve fulfilling active life together, for longer at home.
cARTrefu
Age Cymru (The Baring Foundation)
Watch a film about cARTrefu, a project by Age Cymru to improve access to quality arts experiences for older people in residential care.
The cARTrefu Activity Pack provides creative ideas for care home staff and residents.
Everyday Creativity in Later Life: Art, Technology and Community
Dr Jonathan Gross, 64 million Artists (The Baring Foundation)
Report summarising the activity and findings of the Do, Think, Share action research project run by 64 Million Artists in collaboration with Leicester Ageing Together (LAT). The overarching aim of this report is to examine the implications of that project for understanding the roles of creativity and digital technology in later life.