Kent Arts & Wellbeing - News

Posted: April 9th, 2022

This project involves Age UK Canterbury, Espression Arts as creative deliverer, and Kent Arts and Wellbeing. Funded  by a grant of £4500 from Canterbury City Council and  £5000 from  Kent…

Posted: April 3rd, 2021

Together with Age UK Thanet we are pleased to announce that they  have been awarded a grant from The Armed Forces Covenant Trust’s Positive Pathway Programme. The successful proposal “Thanet…

Posted: December 11th, 2020

Home is where the heart is’ is a project bringing  cheer to some of Canterbury’s older people who live in sheltered housing schemes or other care settings. Lovely hand-crafted postcards…

Posted: August 11th, 2020

  Every picture speaks a thousand words and this is no exception: Mrs Margot Sawyer, from Herne Bay, was ‘thrilled and gob-smacked” to receive an 8-page, birthday card, lovingly crafted…

Posted: May 1st, 2020

The award-winning ‘Our Work of Art’ programme with its network of 40+ creative volunteers is set to continue its valuable befriending work.  The volunteers (aged 50-70+) are supporting older, frailer…

Posted: January 30th, 2020

  Our Work of Art project volunteers co-deliver the 2020 new creative volunteer Training. Buzzing with ideas and questions, 12 new creative recruits attended  the Our Work of Art 2020…

Posted: November 26th, 2019

    The project - Our Work or Art – has just won, not one, but two KM Charity Kent Volunteering Awards, presented on Friday 22 November 2019, at the…

Posted: October 20th, 2019

    Kent Arts and Wellbeing are working with Voluntary Arts England and Age UK to promote the work undertaken by Age UK Oxfordshire to respond to the need of…

Posted: October 14th, 2019

    The ‘Our Work of Art Project Partnership 2018’ was honoured with a finalist certificate for the ‘Arts & Culture Organisation’ category at the Dementia Friendly Kent Awards 2019,…

Posted: October 7th, 2019

  The ‘Our Work of Art’ Project has been nominated and shortlisted for the Dementia Friendly Kent Awards 2019. The project category is ‘Dementia Friendly Arts and Culture Organisation/ Project’.…

Posted: September 6th, 2019

  New skills and friends for the Autumn: Volunteer opportunity for over 50’s for creative wellbeing     The ‘Our Work of Art’ project work to date has been impressive…

Posted: August 16th, 2019

    VOTE for Our Work of Art by 2 Sept: UK ‘EPIC Awards   Creative Volunteers up for an EPIC Award! The ‘Our Work of Art’ project volunteers are…