Category: Stories
My name is Jodie Smith, and I’m the founder of Happy Doodles, a creative wellbeing programme based in East Yorkshire that uses simple, low-pressure doodling to help people recognise, name, and express their emotions. No art experience needed. No right or wrong. Just you, crayons/pencils, and a page. Happy Doodles was built on a belief […]
A guest blog for Creativity & Wellbeing Week by Fatima Lahham In January of this year, I started facilitating a singing group at the UK charity Women for Refugee Women. We met every week for 90 minutes, and by March the group had become a choir, with their first original song recorded. By May, as […]
You Only Notice Us at the Extreme Why we need more honest conversations about bipolar lived experience. Where Words Fail, the Body Keeps Moving A love letter to those trying to survive the nights nobody else sees. Hello, and thank you so much for taking the time to read about our work. We […]
Suffolk Artlink is a participatory community arts charity. We work with people in groups in their own communities. We support people to be creative, make friends and social connections and live well. Creating Space is our programme for family carers experiencing a time of change. For one of our participants, daily life was largely defined […]
The Abundance Project is a three-year UKRI-AHRC initiative funded under the Mobilising Community Assets programme addressing mental health inequalities among underserved communities, including ethnic minorities, migrants and refugees. It explores how cultural and green community spaces such as parks, libraries, and museums can better support mental health when they are accessible, inclusive, and embedded within […]
By Rosalind Hewett, Learning & Engagement Officer – Norwich Museums Service Hello, my name is Rosalind and I am a Learning & Engagement Officer working across three sites at Norfolk Museums Service: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, the Museum of Norwich, and Strangers’ Hall – one of Norwich’s most historic buildings. Creativity and wellbeing […]
We are so delighted to have been commissioned to host an event for Creativity & Wellbeing Week this year. It feels like the culmination of a journey we started several years back. MindFood is essentially a mental health charity with a focus on food-growing as a way to cultivate better wellbeing. But we’ve always been […]
I’m Pat, a Wildlife Artist, Illustrator, Wildlife Photographer, Forest School Leader and Outdoor Educator. Nature inspires me to create and outdoors in wild spaces is my happy place. Over 7 years, in outdoor learning, I’ve been inspiring children of all ages, from 3-16 years with workshops that help individuals, schools, families and local communities connect […]
What does it mean to find hope in nature, not as a comfort, but as a genuine question? It is the kind of question that does not resolve easily, and that is exactly why we are sitting with it, this May, as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2026, through Rewilding, a painting by Alyina […]