Arts on prescription

Our arts workshops are friendly, weekly art workshops for people experiencing mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression.

Led by a professional artist and a qualified counsellor, they offer the chance to experience working with a wide range of materials and techniques, including drawing, printmaking and sculpture.

Michaelhouse Singers

We are a friendly choir open to anybody with a mental health condition and their carers and friends.

We meet in the Michaelhouse Centre every Friday between 2:30–3:30pm.

Pottery for younger people with dementia

Our Younger People with Dementia programme provides a safe and therapeutic environment for participants diagnosed with dementia early in life.

Sessions allow attendees to show ability and enjoy success within a safe and social setting, experience handling clay and being guided and supported to make objects which will then be glazed and professionally fired.

Creative café

Arts & Minds Creative Cafe is a monthly, informal, friendly drop-in cafe held on the last Tuesday of each month in the foyer at Cambridge Junction from 10:30 to 12.30.

The cafe is open to everybody and particularly welcomes people who may be experiencing anxiety, depression or loneliness to come along and feel more connected with their community.

Creative break

We provide art sessions for corporate clients and other organisations committed to supporting the mental wellbeing of their employees.

For more information, click here.

Fullscope

Seven leading organisations that support the mental wellbeing of children or young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough launched Fullscope in October 2019.

Fullscope's member organisations are Arts and Minds, Blue Smile, Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination, Centre 33, CPSL Mind, The Kite Trust and YMCA Trinity Group.

We couldn’t do the work we do without support. Thank you to our current funders and individual donors.

Over the last twelve months supporters of our work have included Arts Council England, Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Evelyn Trust, National Lottery, Pye Foundation, South Cambridgeshire District Council and The Fore.

Team

Director: Emily Bradfield
Programme Manager: Sophie Bennett
Finance & Office Manager: Natalie Emuss

Trustees

Helen McCallum (Chair), Richard Taylor (Deputy Chair), Lorraine Partridge (Treasurer), Madeleine Cooter-Baker, Emma Bigg, Catherine Hatcher, Emma Howes, Margaret Ingram, Ray McCappin, Christina Rowland-Jones MBE, Siobhan Whitley, Simon Willson

Patrons

Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Simon McBurney OBE, Jill Gomez, Professor German Berrios, The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely

Collaborators

Arts on Prescription:
Artists: Caroline Wendling, Susanne Jasilek, Jane Frost
Counsellors: Alison Gilling, Karen Street

Pottery for Younger People with Dementia:
Artists: Bob Race (Lead), Sheena Grummitt (Supporting)

Michaelhouse Singers:
Anne Taylor (Conductor)

Other collaborators:
Ruth Cocksedge, Jane Frost, Marissa Green, Giuseppina Santoro, Katrina Wilson

Museum partners:
University of Cambridge Museums (Fitzwilliam Museum; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology), Norris Museum (St Ives), Peterborough Museum

Ambassadors

Dr Peter Bailey, Wendy Dear, David Jordan, Graham Spinks

Volunteers

Mariya Ali Ameen, Ai Azami, Heather Casson, Elise Gibbons, Sheena Grummitt, Kim Laidler, Annika Magnberg, Emma Monteiro, Ruth Tillyard