Arts Care Limited

Public benefits

Arts Care advocates for the power of the arts and their benefits to enhance health and well-being. Some of the benefits are: • Improved levels of Health and Well-being as a result of engaging in the arts whilst availing of, working in or visiting Health and Social Care facilities; • Reduction in levels of stress and anxiety in service users and

staff; • Increased levels of motivation in healthcare staff in the workplace; • Imagination, creativity and self-expression can support the healing process as well as the end of life experiences; • Increase in physical and cognitive functioning; • Facilitates the right to a quality arts and cultural life whilst availing of healthcare services or working in healthcare environments; • Enhanced relationships between service users and heathcare staff participating together in an arts activity; • Enhanced professional development through arts engagement training for healthcare staff and students; • Transforms clinical environments into ‘cared for spaces. The benefits can be identified by feedback from service users, and health and social care staff via a range of evaluation and measurement tools. There is no harm arising from any of the purposes. The charity’s beneficiaries are patients, clients, residents and staff in health, social and community care settings. There is no private benefit flowing from any of the purposes.

What your organisation does

We deliver a wide range of innovative and impactful participatory arts projects and arts events into the heart of Health, Social and Community Care Services. Arts Care believes in the benefits of creativity to well-being, making all forms of art accessible to patients, clients, residents and staff in health, social and community care settings.