Creative Minds deliver accessible art sessions in care homes. They have a nationwide community of 40 artists and are able to deliver a diverse range of sessions exploring visual art, crafts and sculpture. Book a session
Region: Nationwide
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Creative Mojo
Creative Mojo provide craft workshops in care homes and specialise in working with people with dementia. Book a workshop.
Region: Nationwide
Live Music Now
Live Music Now work with a very diverse range of people in different settings including care homes.
Live Music Now has eight regional branches. To find a professionally trained musician to come and do a session in your care home see listings in a wide range of different genres and then contact your regional branch for their contact details.
Music in Hospitals and Care
Music in Hospitals & Care (MiHC) is a charity providing live music sessions for people who are receiving care or treatment in healthcare settings across the UK.
MiHC operates in a vast range of healthcare settings, with a wide variety of musicians, musical genres, and audience groups. Book a music concert for your care home.
Alive Activities
Alive Activities provide dynamic person-centred creative activities for older people living in care homes, allowing participants to shape the content and direction of sessions. Alive Activities provide a variety of arts sessions and staff training workshops for care homes.
Region: Bristol & surrounding counties
Musical Moments
Musical Moments provides stimulating and interactive musical activities for care settings, working with over a thousand care homes across the UK.
Independent Arts
Independent Arts is an Isle of Wight charity using the arts to improve wellbeing, quality of life and reduce social isolation. They offer several different arts activities for care homes including Singing For Wellbeing, creative arts and intergenerational activities. Region: South East, activity sessions run in Isle of Wight only.
Orleans Gallery
The CREATE programme at Orleans Gallery has been designed to engage older adults living in care within Richmond and neighbouring boroughs. The aim of the sessions are to:
Improve quality of life for older people and their carers through delivering high quality creative engagement with the gallery’s collection.
Improve quality of life for older people and their carers in priority wards within the borough, through creative engagement with the gallery’s collection.
Area: Richmond Borough
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.
Vocal Vitality
Organisation set up by Susan Garrett, a professional singer. Vocal Vitality offer activity sessions and training opportunities for care homes to make singing a regular part of activities programmes.
Region: London
The Musical Breath
The Musical Breath provide training and workshops using the combined skills of a multi-disciplinary team of respiratory, music and voice specialists.
Find out more about their training for care staff and workshops and Singing for Lung Health.