The cinema can be a place to find escapism and solace when struggling with mental health. Mental health is sometimes harder to be aware of for venues than physical disability, but there are still ways to be considerate, welcoming and sensitive. To coincide with World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the ICO spoke to Mickey Fellowes from HearFirst about how your venue can do more to … More
This pack pulls together valuable information provided by families so that it can be shared with other children and young people with visual impairment and their families. Including: 1. Practical and Emotional Support 2. Recreation, Leisure and Activity Groups for Children and Young People 3. Career – Advice, Skills and Support 4. Technology 5. Key Organizations … More
Mel Larsen , a Consultant, Coach and a mentor for the Audience Diversity Academy looks at the essential requirements to create a positive impact on your audience base.
The aim of this guide is to give you practical ideas about how to increase diversity in both those who experience the arts (audiences) and those who participate in making art (creators).
This guide is a compilation of ‘top tips’ and general guidance for working with and welcoming disabled artists and audiences of all ages. We hope it offers long and short term options for people working to any budget. It is not going to give you all the answers (we don’t have them) but we hope … More
Find out about changes in society for LGBT people in recent history and how they can affect those living with dementia today.
The dementia guide is for anyone who has recently been told they have dementia. This could be any type of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia or mixed dementia. It will also be useful to close friends and family of someone with dementia, as it contains information for anyone taking on a caring role.
A standard for how venues can be more inclusive in their practices to appropriately provide for older people
Delivering a sport and physical activity service. A toolkit for mental health providers. This guide covers • The types of roles you could offer volunteers. • Tips to help you recruit great volunteers. • Suggested topics to cover in your volunteer training. • Ideas to help you ensure that volunteers get the most from their … More
The Dementia-friendly arts guide is a guide for arts venue managers and staff on how to make the environment, facilities and programming of arts venues accessible to people withdementia, their families and carers.
