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.

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

Team

Director: Emily Bradfield

Fullscope Programme Director: Eva Acs

Administrator / Programme Manager: Mary Shastid

Trustees

Helen McCallum (Chair), Richard Taylor (Deputy Chair), Lorraine Partridge (Treasurer), Dr Hilary Bungay, Madeleine Cooter-Baker, Catherine Hatcher, Emma Howes, Margaret Ingram, Christina Rowland-Jones MBE, Martin Stefan

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:
Caroline Wendling (Lead Artist),
Alison Gilling (Counsellor),
Artists: Jane Frost, Susanne Jasilek, Giuseppina Santoro

Young People with Dementia Pottery:
Bob Race (Lead Artist), Sheena Grummitt (Supporting Artist)

Michaelhouse Singers:
Anne Taylor (Conductor)

Virtual Creative Cafe:
Ruth Cocksedge, Jane Frost, Marissa Green, Susanne Jasilek, Giuseppina Santoro, Katrina Wilson

Norris Museum (St Ives), Peterborough Museum, University of Cambridge Museums

Ambassadors

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

Volunteers

Ayumi Asai, Nathan Castley, Sheena Grummitt, Emma Monteiro