Job Title: project volunteer
Organisation: Crawley Ms Ltd
Email: crawleymsltd@gmail.com
Description: Hi I am looking for a volunteers to organize/ conduct arts/ drawing and painting works/ weaving for at every care home residents and later to exhibit them locally and overseas, can send more details to discuss please email me crawleyms@hotmail.com
Job Title: Heritage & Outreach Officer
Organisation: Clevedon Pier & Heritage Trust
Email: abbieedbrooke@clevedonpier.com
Description: Community & schools / interpretation
Job Title: Development Manager
Organisation: Nicholas James Care Homes & Regal Care Trading
Email: adraper@njch.co.uk
Description: Management of the Leisure and Social Programme within 27 Nursing and Residential Communities. I work with our Managers and Coordinators to ensure we have engaging, stimulating, active, meaningful and person centred services for our clients.
Job Title: Marketing
Organisation: Active Minds
Email: brook@visibilis.co.uk
Description: Our mission is to improve the lives of people living with Alzheimer's and Dementia by creating activity products that are engaging and have purpose to them.
Job Title: Founder, Director
Organisation: Crafting4Good CIC
Email: adele@crafting4good.org
Description: As a not-for-personal-profit social enterprise we provide affordable craft activities and distribute donated craft supplies to support various community groups and organisations - with the aim of improving people's wellbeing, especially on a tight budget.
Job Title: Engagement Officer (Older People)
Organisation: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Email: ailsa.richardson@bristol.gov.uk
Description: At Bristol Museums we are working towards making our venues dementia friendly. We have two project running currently - Creative Cafes and ArtBox (which takes resources out to hospitals and carehomes).
Job Title: Branch Manager
Organisation: N-Able Uk
Email: alex@n-ableuk.com
Description: Support Therapy Service which helps people to adapt to changed circumstances whilst accomplishing your daily tasks
Job Title: Artist Educator
Organisation: Freelance
Email: alexaroselowe@gmail.com
Description: I lead weekly art sessions for older adults as well as running workshops.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Music as Therapy International
Email: alexiaquin@musicastherapy.org
Description: Music as Therapy International provides introductory training and longterm support to care staff and professionals interested to create opportunities for meaningful music within care.
Job Title: Artist Musician Carer Workshop Leader
Organisation: Alexxa B Creative
Email: alexcpitt@aol.com
Description: I work as a companion for older people many living with dementia. I use art and music activities during care sessions. I also run music and art workshops, art and history tours and host parties.
Job Title: Director and Facilitator
Organisation: Alice Knight
Email: aliceknightuk@gmail.com
Description: I am a director and facilitator specialising in community theatre and opera projects. I have worked with organisations such as ETO, Turtle Key Arts, The National Theatre and The Royal Opera House.
Job Title: Designer
Organisation: None
Email: osborne.alice@gmail.com
Description: I am a designer who is bringing creativity to care settings.
Job Title: activities co-ordinator
Organisation: ashmere
Email: winikonadesigns@yahoo.co.uk
Description: organising and running activities/events within a residential home. I am also an artits/crafts person
Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
Organisation: Generations Working Together
Email: alison@generationsworkingtogether.org
Description: GWT is the National Expert Centre in Scotland for Intergenerational Practice. We provide information, deliver training and support and encourage involvement to benefit all of Scotland's generations, by working, learning volunteering and living together.
Job Title: Head of Programming
Organisation: Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park
Email: alison.cox@comptonverney.org.uk
Description: Compton Verney is an art gallery set in 120 acres of south Warwickshire parkland.It holds 5 art collections, stages major art exhibitions & organises a varied programme of activities for all. My role is to head up the programme.
Job Title: artist & researcher
Organisation: freelance
Email: alisonfbell@btopenworld.com
Description: I explore how creative practice has the potential to reveal the experience and sensory knowledge of ageing and the ways in which they might be understood on their own terms.
Job Title: Dementia Friendly Intern
Organisation: Royal & Derngate and Northampton Filmhouse
Email: alison.stewart@namtrust.co.uk
Description: Dementia Friendly Intern at theatre and filmhouse for 6 months. Researching good practice with view to develop dementia friendly schedule.
Job Title: Teacher, Writer, Dementia Friendly Intern
Organisation: Independent
Email: alison11stewart@btinternet.com
Description: Qualified writer and teacher doing a dementia friendly internship at theatre and filmhouse.
Job Title: Project Manager, Arts in Care Homes
Organisation: NAPA/Arts in Care Homes
Email: alison@artsincarehomes.org.uk
Description: Providing a resource for anyone interesting in organising arts activities for older people living in care homes in England.
Job Title: Creative Arts Officer
Organisation: C&C
Email: alison.teader@ccht.org.uk
Description: Creative Arts Service providing arts activities and learning opportunities for older people living in C&C housing. Housing includes 4 residential care homes and sheltered schemes for older people.
Job Title: Trustee
Organisation: The Art Ministry
Email: contact@theartministry.org.uk
Description: Regular arts and crafts groups and clubs for children and for adults with learning difficulties, adults with physical disabilities, adults with visual impairments and adults with mental health problems.
Job Title: Dance Leader
Organisation: Purple Bird Dance and Movement
Email: purplebird-danceandmovement@outlook.com
Description: Starting to lead dance and movement sessions for 60+ and in residential homes
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: AJWeaving
Email: ajweaving@gmail.com
Description: I am a textile artist who wants supported accommodation residents near me to have more fun.
Job Title: Ageing Creatively Coordinator
Organisation: Corn Exchange (Newbury)
Email: amyp@cornexchangenew.co.uk
Description: Ageing Creatively explores creative ways for members of the community to engage in the arts in a variety of settings offering projects and courses across art forms including singing, poetry, dance, and visual arts
Job Title: Engagement Producer
Organisation: Hat Fair
Email: amy.pendry@hatfair.co.uk
Description: Hat Fair is the UK's longest running international Outdoor Arts festival. We care deeply about the communities we work with. We bring people together through creative performance projects enabling intergenerational dialogue, joy and fantastic art.
Job Title: General Manager
Organisation: Spare Tyre
Email: amy@sparetyre.org
Description: We create theatre and other arts activities with older people.
Job Title: Programme Coordinator
Organisation: The Reading Agency
Email: anastasia.georgousis@readingagency.org.uk
Description: I'm the Programme Coordinator for Reading Friends, an innovative new befriending programme by The Reading Agency, and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund that tackles loneliness through the power of reading.
Job Title: Community Dance artist
Organisation: Freelance
Email: andrea@airarts.net
Description: I am a freelance dance artist delivering projects both on a national and local level. I am also the Lead Dance Artist for Royal Derby Hospitals and provide training on using dance with older people.
Job Title: Music and Sound Research Consulant
Organisation: CW+
Email: andrew.hall@cwplus.org.uk
Description: Leading music research projects at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Job Title: Elders Company director
Organisation: Royal Exchange Theatre
Email: andy.barry@royalexchange.co.uk
Description: The Elders is for everyone over 60 who wants to meet new people, learn more about theatre-making and develop their own creativity. The Elders Company makes boundary-pushing theatre that challenges the stereotypes of ageing.
Job Title: Facilitator - Dancer
Organisation: KolnuArts
Email: kolnuarts@gmail.com
Description: Facilitating, creating & performing, mainly dance, for, in & around arts projects. Worked with individual ways of receiving, processing & expressing information, creating & moving. Interested in arts around dance, capacity, care, engagement & enablement.
Job Title: Community Dancer
Organisation: Love to Dance
Email: angieward2012@gmail.com
Description: Community dance with all ages and abilities, specialising in dance with older people.
Job Title: Freelance Artist
Organisation: kookooshaboo
Email: ann.crearie@googlemail.com
Description: I use drawing, print, collage, textiles and sculpture to run workshops for the lederly in local hospitals
Job Title: CEO
Organisation: lovejoy Centre
Email: lovejoycentre@gmail.com
Description: Providing activities to older people in the community through reminiscence, art, music and pet therapy.
Job Title: educational creative practitioner
Organisation: dot to dot arts
Email: annaread50@yahoo.co.uk
Description: I am freelance community based arts practitioner, working with in the fields of community arts family celebratory events and work closely with autism, dementia and special needs.
Job Title: Engagement Manager
Organisation: Manchester Museum
Email: anna.bunney@manchester.ac.uk
Description: Engagement Manager at Manchester Museum
Job Title: applied drama practitioner
Organisation: Valletta 2018
Email: annaformosa@gmail.com
Description: I studied applied drama at Exeter Uni in 2005 and since then have worked on numerous and varied projects in education and for social intervention in the UK and later in Malta when I moved back.
Job Title: Arts Programme Manager
Organisation: Borough of Poole Arts Service
Email: arts@poole.gov.uk
Description: We offer a long-standing arts & heath programme for Borough of Poole, based at Poole Museum.
Job Title: Writer, tutor, editor
Organisation: Wild Rosemary Writing Services
Email: anne.grange77@googlemail.com
Description: I run creative writing workshops and poetry with people with dementia. I also create, edit and publish memoirs to celebrate peoples' lives!
Job Title: Registered manager retired
Organisation: Sussex House Care Home
Email: annehanslip1@hotmail.com
Description: As a retired manager of a care home i am still involved in the development of the activities program for residents with mental health difficulties.
Job Title: Committee Member
Organisation: Dacorum Community Dance
Email: robanner2@gmail.com
Description: A creative & caring community dance group for older adults, enhancing lives through dance. Currently delivering sessions The Old Town Hall & in Sheltered Housing.
Job Title: Project Coordinator
Organisation: Artcore
Email: coordinator@artcoreuk.com
Description: Our vision is to initiate a dialogue with the community through the medium of art along with engaging, impacting and ensuring that everyone has access to the transformative power of the arts.
Job Title: Nurse
Organisation: NHS
Email: shield_ashley@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Nurse eager to bring art to patients lives for better health and wellbeing
Job Title: Volunteer
Organisation: Volunteer
Email: asmina.remtulla@gmail.com
Description: I do voluntary work with faith groupd and with health watch
Job Title: Project Officer
Organisation: SSSC
Email: audrey.pollock@sssc.uk.com
Description: Supporting social services workforce in Dementia learning.
Job Title: Co-Founder
Organisation: Creative Aging International
Email: beakelleher@gmail.com
Description: Creative Aging Festivals
Job Title: Lead Dance Teacher
Organisation: Ballet4life and Move into Wellbeing
Email: ballet4lifeuk1@gmail.com
Description: Ballet4Life delivers dance classes for adult learners. It is also the umbrella organisation to the Move Into Wellbeing Charity, which offers 3 weekly dance classes to people living with Parkinson's and other mobility challenges.
Job Title: Production Intern
Organisation: Wandsworth Arts Fringe
Email: rdulledge@enablelc.org
Description: I am a production intern for an open access fringe festival in London trying to find different community groups to connect with
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: To Be Continued
Email: becky.edmunds@gmail.com
Description: I am creating a free online web series, called To Be Continued, based on the extraordinary journals of a man called Dick Perceval, that I found in a pile of rubbish. The project is looking to connect with older audiences.
Job Title: Creative Learning & Programme Manager
Organisation: Stratford Circus Arts Centre
Email: becky@stratford-circus.com
Description: We're an Arts Centre in Newham serving a diverse area. We offer a high-quality artistic programme alongside an outreach programme to ensure everyone in our community can access our work.
Job Title: Dance and Movement Artist/Facilitator
Organisation: Freelancer
Email: becky.pringle@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Specialises in facilitating high quality creative and inclusive dance/movement sessions and participatory projects (including choreography/performance) for all ages and abilities in community, education and health and social care settings.
Job Title: BSO Participate Programme Manager
Organisation: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Email: bjennings@bsorchestra.co.uk
Description: Delivery of projects in local communities and health & wellbeing settings. From concerts in care homes, to dementia friendly work in hospitals, and also work with older musicians. We try and cover a broad range of people, generations and interests.
Job Title: Assistant Outreach Officer
Organisation: TWAM
Email: benjamin.jones@twmuseums.org.uk
Description: Live Well is a Big Lottery funded programme that aims to work with disadvantaged older people in Tyneside to encourage and improve access to museums and galleries.
Job Title: Practice Excellence Adviser - Older people & Dementia
Organisation: Notting Hill Genesis
Email: ben.williams@nhg.org.uk
Description: Experienced national policy and practice adviser managing complex cross partnership programmes in the health and social care industry. Expert in Dementia, Age-Friendly housing, Mental Capacity and care standards
Job Title: Knowledge Management Officer
Organisation: Age UK
Email: Benita.Pursch@AgeUK.org.uk
Description: Work for Policy and Research for Age UK focusing on creative and cultural aspects of ageing
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Popup and Questors Theatres
Email: beewolfie@talk21.com
Description: Paid work as college lecturer - love of it work theatre director for mixed age range from 20s to late 80s.Playwright.
Job Title: Community Engagement Officer - Older People
Organisation: GLAM University of Oxford
Email: beth.mcdougall@prm.ox.ac.uk
Description: As Community Engagement Officer for Older People at the University of Oxford Museums I work alongside older people and the museum teams to develop engaging activities and programming of museum collections.
Job Title: Participation and Communities Officer
Organisation: Oxford Playhouse
Email: bethy.sedgwick@oxfordplayhouse.com
Description: I am responsible for engaging people of all backgrounds in creative opportunities
Job Title: Creative workshop artist
Organisation: Mrs
Email: beverleyashmore@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Creative artist running Workshops.
Job Title: Art Educator
Organisation: Age UK Wanstead
Email: mbbcraft@gmail.com
Description: Experienced freelance artist working with Age UK and within the learning departments of museums/galleries/charities/residential care homes and schools including 1-1 and group tuition. Contact me for more details :)
Job Title: Occupational therapist
Organisation: NHS
Email: bridget.awogboro@nhs.net
Description: I work for the elderly mental health team in Luton. Part of my work is with the memory clinic and part with the community mental health team. I also run groups when I have the opportunity
Job Title: Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist/Dance Practitioner
Organisation: Moving Through Life
Email: bridgetdmp@gmail.com
Description: Registered DMP(MA, Goldsmith's College), dance practitioner working with older adults and children. Interested in work with people living with chronic/progressive medical conditions
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Passages Theatre
Email: blmoore1@sheffield.ac.uk
Description: A group of older people researching age and ageing through performance. Creating immersive, engaged theatre to tour to community venues conferences and festivals. Research about and by older people.
Job Title: Dementia Community Official
Organisation: Landermeads Nursing Home
Email: bronteheath@hotmail.com
Description: I run a dementia community awareness project in which we organise for individuals in the care home to go into the community and engage in activities that improve their wellbeing and help them to express themselves.
Job Title: Home Coordinator
Organisation: Burwood Nursing Home & Yaffle Care
Email: admin@burwoodnursinghome.co.uk
Description: We are a 58 bed nursing home in Broadstone. We provide accommodation and give care for residents aged 65 and over who are experiencing a wide range of medical conditions.
Job Title: Research Fellow
Organisation: University of Southampton
Email: C.F.Brooks@soton.ac.uk
Description: Keen interest in creative arts and impact upon health. Other interests: dementia, addressing social inequalities, medicine optimisation, sociology of risk
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: Lyrical Life Lessons
Email: Caishnah.nevans@gmail.com
Description: Artist led workshops celebrating the power music (in particular lyrics) can have on mental health.
Job Title: Drama tutor
Organisation: New Horizons activity centre
Email: carolofdawes@btinternet.com
Description: New Horizons is an education and activity center for over 50s, where I teach drama. I also work with the Association for Education and Ageing, a charity promoting and supporting lifelong learning.
Job Title: Irish community support worker (arts and wellbeing)
Organisation: Leeds Irish Health and Homes
Email: carol.cronin@lihh.org
Description: Provide support to the older Irish community in leeds. one to one support or through group work. Facilitating creative groups including painting, crafts, music, events and more
Job Title: socially engaged artist
Organisation: self employed
Email: carolparker1@live.co.uk
Description: Art & older adults in care & those living with dementia and their carers, rural & social isolation. Work monitored & evaluated by funders inc: ACE, Heritage Lottery, EMDA, ERDF, Legacy Trust UK
Job Title: Biodanza Teacher
Organisation: ABTUK /Danzability.Com
Email: biodanzagreenwich@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I teach dance based personal development and Inclusive Dance
Job Title: Head of Partnership
Organisation: Home Instead Senior Care
Email: caroline.kanso@homeinstead.co.uk
Description: I work with like minded organisation to transform the lives of our seniors in the community
Job Title: Chairman
Organisation: Thakeham Parish Council
Email: caroline.instance@btinternet.com
Description: Parish Council serving a rural community: where transport is a difficulty. However we have a new village hall (with a stage) and lots of parking.
Job Title: Founder, Director
Organisation: Bright Copper Kettles CIC
Email: carolinejbenham@brightcopperkettles.co.uk
Description: Promotion of opportunities for older people (including those with dementia) to access activities of their choice
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: Pink House Arts
Email: pinkhousearts@me.com
Description: I host therapeutic creative workshops for vulnerable adults in community settings and NHS Trusts.
Job Title: Professor
Organisation: Psychology.fashion
Email: carolyn.mair@gmail.com
Description: I'm a Psychologist currently working as a consultant with the fashion industry. My expertise lies cognitive processes and wellbeing.
Job Title: Development and Partnerships Coordinator
Organisation: Artis Foundation
Email: cuckoo@artisfoundation.org.uk
Description: Artis is a creative learning charity that transforms lives through the performing arts.
Job Title: Tutor
Organisation: U3A
Email: chistory@live.co.uk
Description: Coordinator of U3A Urban Sketchers - a group of retired people who have always wanted to sketch outdoors but didn't have the confidence to do so.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Ju-Vup
Email: info@ju-vup.com
Description: Ju-Vup supports the physical,social and emotional wellbeing of communities through innovative carnival inspired activities for all.
Job Title: Co-founder
Organisation: InCommon
Email: charlotte@incommonliving.com
Description: InCommon bring generations together.
Job Title: Marketing Co-ordinator
Organisation: The National Centre for Craft & Design
Email: artsnk@lincsinspire.com
Description: Alongside its exhibition programme NCCD also offers enriching arts and cultural experiences through a dynamic multi-arts programme of exhibitions, festivals, events, performances and community arts projects.
Job Title: Co-Director
Organisation: Lyth Arts Centre LTD
Email: charlotte@lytharts.org.uk
Description: Scotland's most northerly mainland arts centre. Bringing theatre, music, dance and visual arts to the residents and visitors of Caithness
Job Title: Arts Development Officer
Organisation: North Lincolnshire Council
Email: chelsey.everatt@northlincs.gov.uk
Description: North Lincolnshire Arts Development works to enable and support the community participate in and enjoy high quality arts experiences and develop and strengthen arts infrastructure.
Job Title: Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health
Organisation: Global Brain Health Institute
Email: cheyenne.mize@gbhi.org
Description: As a music therapist and community music therapy advocate, my goal is to help people connect to themselves and others and to foster a more open and empathic community through creative engagement, regardless of diagnosis or ability level.
Job Title: volunteer
Organisation: ageuk
Email: chris142morgan@btinternet.com
Description: voluntary and community work with age concern, currently sing and dance
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: None
Email: chris_avis@yahoo.co.uk
Description: As an older artist (69) her work has been widely exhibited across Europe. She uses photography, print and moving image to explore the ageing process. In 2013 she received a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship, followed by a Barbican Guildhall Open Lab.
Job Title: CEO
Organisation: Arts & Disability Forum
Email: Chris@adf.ie
Description: We are a disabled led company supporting disabled and deaf people's involvement in the arts - all ages, all art forms, all impairments. Work includes Art & Biscuits programme with people who have dementia.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: 64 Million Artists
Email: chris@64millionartists.com
Description: I run projects across the UK working with communities on creativity, wellbeing, mental health, older age and cultural democracy
Job Title: Creative Engagement Officer
Organisation: CW+
Email: christina.peumalu@cwplus.org.uk
Description: Deliver the Care of Older People programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust. Programme includes a daily timetable of participatory activity and a programme of physical enhancements to the clinical environment.
Job Title: Centre Manager
Organisation: Newhampton Arts Centre
Email: admin@newhamptonarts.co.uk
Description: Centre Manager at Newhampton Arts Centre an independent community arts centre in Wolverhampton, West Midlands with a wide range of a facilities. We run dropin sessions and arts classes/workshops as well as performances.
Job Title: Freelance Storyteller
Organisation: Ms
Email: cindyloutt@gmail.com
Description: I tell traditional stories and am working with the community (including elders) in Burnley to tell their own stories.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Family Arts Campaign
Email: clair@thealbany.org.uk
Description: Family Arts Campaign
Job Title: Development Officer - NW
Organisation: Voluntary Arts
Email: claire@vaengland.org.uk
Description: My role is to develop Voluntary Arts' network and activity around Get Creative in North West England. Voluntary Arts are the umbrella body for the arts and cultural voluntary sector, supporting everyday creativity across the country.
Job Title: Dance Well Project Officer
Organisation: Akademi
Email: claire@akademi.co.uk
Description: Dance Well provides regular opportunities for adults to attend dance and movement sessions, partnering with charity organisations, care homes, day centres and hospitals, as well as community learning and education providers.
Job Title: Arts Officer
Organisation: Heritage and Culture Warwickshire
Email: countyartsservice@warwickshire.gov.uk
Description: We provide a range of services that help local communities, schools and visitors connect and engage with their local heritage.
Job Title: Facilitator
Organisation: Independant
Email: jc@wobblymotion.co.uk
Description: Arts work with adults/older people
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: Open Stage Arts
Email: claire@openstagearts.co.uk
Description: We put on fun, friendly, pressure-free drama and singing workshops for adults of all ages in Oxfordshire
Job Title: Painting and Drawing Tutor
Organisation: Years Ahead
Email: info@claireweetman.co.uk
Description: Years Ahead has a variety of classes for people of all abilities including Crafts, Creative Writing, Painting and Drawing and Tap Dancing. There are three 10-week terms per year, with classes taking place in both Widnes and Runcorn.
Job Title: Arts Instructor
Organisation: Artist
Email: claretimmis@icloud.com
Description: Artist working with drawing, painting, mixed media. Interest in recycling materials and ideas. Exhibition work in Herts./London etc.
Job Title: activities co-ordinator
Organisation: notting hill housing group
Email: clive.brown@nhhg.org.uk
Description: co-ordinating activities across 3 extra care schemes in south london
Job Title: Communications and Development Assistant
Organisation: DanceEast
Email: antonia.wiese@danceeast.co.uk
Description: DanceEast is more than a dance class facilitator and theatre venue. Artists and professionals are at the heart of our organisation and we are committed to supporting them in various ways.
Job Title: Manager
Organisation: Community Focus
Email: danusia@communityfocus.co.uk
Description: Community Focus provides a wide range of creative arts to help vulnerable groups - disability, the elderly, young people with mental health and children with challenging behaviour.
Job Title: Associate
Organisation: The Centre For Policy on Ageing
Email: Davemartin@cpa.org.uk
Description: As an artist (or art activist) I seek to explore how we might understand ageing across the life course and challenge our ageist attitudes, to challenge the "othering" of older people.
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: David Yates Art
Email: da.yates@icloud.com
Description: I am a community artist. I have delivered 350+ residencies in schools, universities, communities and galleries. I have an Enhanced DBS and artist public liability up to £5 million. I am trained in First Aid at Work and in Mental Health First Aid.
Job Title: Head of Community Partnerships
Organisation: Oomph Wellness
Email: david@oomph-wellness.org
Description: We provide training and support to people working/volunteering/living in community to deliver activity classes for older people.
Job Title: Grants Programme Manager
Organisation: Mercers' Foundation
Email: davidt@mercers.co.uk
Description: I work for a foundation that funds projects related to Older People and housing. We currently have a scheme that focusses on wellbeing and the creative arts in older people.
Job Title: Youth and Community Director
Organisation: Southwark Playhouse
Email: david.workman@southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Description: Southwark Playhouse runs a weekly Elders Company for people aged 65 and over from our local community
Job Title: Learning and Participation Co-ordinator
Organisation: Capital Theatres
Email: dawn.irvine@capitaltheatres.com
Description: My remit is creative ageing and dementia friendly projects
Job Title: Creative Directio
Organisation: Tribe of Doris
Email: deasy@blueyonder.co.uk
Description: Bringing people together from all cultures ages and backgrounds to share and learn from each other in inclusive and stimulating environments
Job Title: PhD student
Organisation: University of Exeter Medical School
Email: dk360@exeter.ac.uk
Description: My research is looking at museum programmes for people with dementia
Job Title: Arts Officer
Organisation: Fermanagh & Omagh District Council
Email: diane.henshaw@fermanaghomagh.com
Description: Regional Arts Office for Fermanagh & Omagh District
Job Title: Managing Editor
Organisation: Third Age Press
Email: dnort@globalnet.co.uk
Description: Previously founder of U3A in UK & Policy Officer Age Concern Education & Leisure. Currently Owner manager Third Age Press
Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
Organisation: Age UK Portsmouth
Email: dianne.sherlock@ageukportsmouth.org.uk
Description: I am the CEO of a charitable organisation that is deeply motivated by holistic, inclusive and truly person-centred working which I believe is the experience we should all know as we age.
Job Title: Silver Social Project Coordinator
Organisation: Breckland Council
Email: dominique.tonitto@breckland.gov.uk
Description: The Silver Social is a daytime touring arts programme of workshops and performances, aimed at older people (open to all) in community venues across Breckland, Norfolk
Job Title: sole trader
Organisation: Art and Murals buy Donna Mcghie
Email: info@artandmurals.co.uk
Description: I run Art 4 A Heart workshops using the medium of Powertex fabric hardener. I donate a percentage of what I make to the Papworth Hospital Charity
Job Title: Organiser/Tutor
Organisation: Irish Centre Over 60's Camden London
Email: doris.daly@gmail.com
Description: etired Nursing Sister. lecturer on the Dementias. Tutor for F.E and activities for the retired. Reminiscence Therapy published work
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Double Elephant Print Workshop
Email: simon@doubleelephant.org.uk
Description: DEPW is an Exeter based workshop for artists working in printmaking. We work extensively in community settings often alongside older people
Job Title: Senior Research Fellow
Organisation: University of Nottingham
Email: fiona.marshall2@nottingham.ac.uk
Description: Ethnographic enquiry in relation to rural dementia. Currently undertaking large community study about well-being among rural people living with dementia.
Job Title: Reader in Digital Society
Organisation: Oxford Brookes University
Email: sequinton@brookes.ac.uk
Description: Involved in research to understand the use of image sharing as a form of connectivity for older people to mitigate loneliness and enhance well being
Job Title: Lecturer
Organisation: University of Surrey
Email: landeyer@msn.com
Description: I am conducting multiple research looking at how the creative economy can enhance elderly's wellbeing, I would love to get connected in this network and see how we can create better impact.
Job Title: Staying Active @ 70+ co-ordinator
Organisation: Women's health & family services
Email: Dymphna.dale@whfs.org.uk
Description: Our project is set up to help reduce loneliness and isolation for older community in Tower Hamlets
Job Title: Chief Executive
Organisation: Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers
Email: info@oacp.org.uk
Description: OACP is the trade association for adult social care providers in Oxfordshire. All settings, all conditions.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Sadler's Wells
Email: elaine.foley@sadlerswells.com
Description: I manage the Company of Elders at Sadler's Wells. We are the Learning & Engagement department's resident over-60s performance company, proving since 1989 that it's never too late to start dancing!
Job Title: Arts Director
Organisation: Severn Arts
Email: eknight@worcestershire.gov.uk
Description: Supporting and developing the arts in Worcestershire
Job Title: Communities Officer
Organisation: Gunnersbury Park & Museum
Email: gunnersburylearning@ealing.gov.uk
Description: We are the local history museum for Ealing & Hounslow, set in a glorious 186 acre public park
Job Title: Communities Officer
Organisation: Gunnersbury Park & Museum
Email: LewisNunesE@ealing.gov.uk
Description: I run community projects in a local history museum and public park in West London.
Job Title: Grants Manager
Organisation: The Rothschild Foundation
Email: ellie.stout@rothschildfoundation.org.uk
Description: Managing The Rothschild Foundation Grants Programme which provides grants to organisations across a number of priority areas, including older people
Job Title: Marketing Coordinator
Organisation: Pavilion Dance
Email: emilie@pdsw.org.uk
Description: Pavilion Dance South West is a National Portfolio Organisation. One area of our work celebrates dance with, for and by the over sixties.
Job Title: Arts Consultant | Events Mgr | Researcher
Organisation: FREELANCE
Email: e.bradfield@derby.ac.uk
Description: Freelance Arts Consultant, Events Manager & Researcher - interested in bridging the gap between research & practice. Cambridge based but flexible!
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Arts & Minds
Email: emily@artsandminds.org.uk
Description: Using the arts to support the positive mental health of individuals and communities.
Job Title: Freelance
Organisation: Miss
Email: clark2005@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Skilled in Logo design and photography.
Job Title: Theatre Practitioner
Organisation: Individual
Email: emilygreenslade@gmail.com
Description: I am a theatre practitioner who works in movement and dance theatre. Movement, in whatever way, is a means for release and expression. I am keen to meet with older people to see if this might be a useful creative outlet.
Job Title: Head of Programmes
Organisation: Ms
Email: emily.groves@northlondoncares.org.uk
Description: Supporting the team at North London Cares to deliver the Social Clubs, Love Your Neighbour and Outreach programmes across Camden and Islington.
Job Title: Freelance Pottery and Basketmaker
Organisation: Freelance Pottery and Basketmaker
Email: info@emily-hall.co.uk
Description: Freelance potter teaching in care homes in and around London. Working with groups or 1-1 sessions, those with dementia or physical disabilities. I'm always looking to expand across other age groups to show the wonderful benefits of working with clay.
Job Title: Creative Producer
Organisation: Prestwich Arts Festival
Email: volunteers.prestwichartsfest@gmail.com
Description: As creative producer I have a unique role. I am responsible for taking many ideas and making it into a quality festival
Job Title: Arts & Craft Provider
Organisation: Creative Mojo
Email: emmalouisepolin@gmail.com
Description: An all-inclusive craft experience for the elderly, adults with learning and physical disabilities and mental health concerns. We also specialise in working with people with dementia and also within wider community groups.
Job Title: Creative Practitioner
Organisation: Freelance
Email: emma.nutland@gmail.com
Description: Creative Practitioner, working across Scotland for the past 8 years and recently moved to London. I make performances for and with people living with dementia. Extensive experience working across a variety of diverse and inter-generational communities.
Job Title: Head of Engagement
Organisation: Pavilion Dance South West
Email: emma@pdsw.org.uk
Description: We are the national dance development organisation for the South West of England. We work collaboratively with partners across the region who share a commitment to develop&sustain opportunities for people to make, present, watch & participate in dance.
Job Title: Learning & Wellbeing officer
Organisation: Ben Uri Gallery
Email: wellbeing1@benuri.org
Description: Exhibitions, Arts and charity work
Job Title: Special Projects Manager
Organisation: Waltham Forest Council
Email: Emma.McGovern@walthamforest.gov.uk
Description: My team programmes cultural activity across the London Borough of Waltham Forest. One of our priorities is ensuring our work is accessible to older people.
Job Title: Dramatherapist
Organisation: Self-Employed
Email: emmaaaradford@gmail.com
Description: I am a qualified dramatherapist, using art, music and drama techniques to promote the well-being and health of a range of client groups. I have a particular interest in working with older people.
Job Title: Social events manager
Organisation: Grove court
Email: emmaredrose3@aol.com
Description: I provide a holistic range of activities to the elderly. I offer an ear, and ideas, for people to learn new things and share their life experiences.
Job Title: CEO
Organisation: Art in Healthcare
Email: emma@artinhealthcare.org.uk
Description: Our vision is Art for every healthcare setting in Scotland and our mission is to use visual art to improve health and wellbeing.
Job Title: marketing
Organisation: best hotel packages
Email: 01william.ena@gmail.com
Description: running a website
Job Title: Programme Manager: Elders and Community
Organisation: Cubitt Artists
Email: esther@cubittartists.org.uk
Description: Cubitt is a Gallery, Studios and Education programme. Cubitt Education facilitate meaningful engagement with contemporary art, connecting artists and Islingtons resident communities.
Job Title: Arts Partnership Manager
Organisation: Age UK Oxfordshire
Email: farrellrenowdencurran@hotmail.com
Description: I manage the Age of Creativity website- I also develop arts opportunities for older people across Oxfordshire.
Job Title: artist
Organisation: individual
Email: feeyeh.neo@gmail.com
Description: I have been doing participatory art in the form of public interventions for three years now. I now want to work with organisations and communities as I have realised the limitations of my outreach as an individual.
Job Title: Visiting research fellow
Organisation: University of Roehampton
Email: Fiona.Costa@roehampton.ac.uk
Description: My research interest is the effect of music on the well being of older people, particularly those in their 80s and over, many of whom are frail and vulnerable. Music is easily accessible, and no physical or cognitive ability is required for listening.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Tricky Hat Productions
Email: fiona@trickyhat.com
Description: The Flames -a Tricky Hat Production- is a multi media performance company for people over 50. Our current artistic collaborators include Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Catstrand in Dumfries & Galloway and Dunoon Bourgh Hall.
Job Title: Performance designer
Organisation: Three Girls
Email: hellothreegirls@gmail.com
Description: Three Girls create work that aims to raise awareness of those living with dementia and loneliness. We do this through interactive, sensory installation and performance
Job Title: PA
Organisation: Medina
Email: francismedinax@gmail.com
Description: I care for an elderly woman with Alzheimer and work with individuals and groups to find and promote activities for the elderly with dementia in north east London.
Job Title: puppeteer
Organisation: Droomtheater
Email: franshakkemars@hetnet.nl
Description: Droomtheater uses shadow theatre with, for and through elderly in a mobile suitcase as a medium to interactive, interdisciplinary, intercultural, international and inter generative encounters between people and art.
Job Title: UK Programme Assistant
Organisation: Music as Therapy International
Email: freyagibbs@musicastherapy.org
Description: Music as Therapy International delivers music therapist-led skill-sharing projects with care practitioners working with vulnerable people across the UK and internationally.
Job Title: Project Development Officer
Organisation: Suffolk Artlink
Email: gabby@suffolkartlink.org.uk
Description: Project manage the Forget Me Not Visitors programme for Suffolk Artlink. Forget Me Not Visitors provide positive creative interactions for older people in hospital living with dementia. http://www.suffolkartlink.org.uk/our-work/forget-me-nots/
Job Title: Music Therapist
Organisation: Self-employed
Email: gabrielle.musictherapy@gmail.com
Description: Music Therapist working in the community and health care settings with all age groups
Job Title: Community Dance Practitioner
Organisation: Keep Moving and Dancing
Email: gail.borrows@gmail.com
Description: Older people dancing and care homes
Job Title: Head of Community Activities
Organisation: Age UK West Sussex
Email: gary.hardley@ageukwestsussex.org.uk
Description: Manage the Mangers of our Activity Centres and Community Clubs in West Sussex.
Job Title: Marketing & Communications Manager
Organisation: Live & Local Rural & Community Touring Networks: Midlands
Email: gary@liveandlocal.org.uk
Description: Not-for-profit organisation providing high quality, professional and diverse live arts experiences to communities across the Midlands (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire).
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: The Dance Network Association
Email: gemma@dancenetworkassociation.org.uk
Description: Our mission is to raise the profile of dance in Essex and further afield. We seek to do this through the provision of affordable high-quality dance delivery for local communities, individuals, schools and young people.
Job Title: Volunteer Co-ordinator
Organisation: London Bubble Theatre
Email: georgiac@londonbubble.org.uk
Description: London Bubble Theatre Company brings people together to create, participate in and enjoy theatre. It provides the artistic direction, skills, environment and resources to create inspirational, inclusive, involving theatre.
Job Title: Art Psychotherapist
Organisation: Georgina Sumner
Email: georgiesumner@gmail.com
Description: I am a recently qualified HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist based in the North Cotswolds.
Job Title: Impact and Research Fellow
Organisation: Writing Back
Email: G.E.Binnie@leeds.ac.uk
Description: Writing Back is a volunteer letter-writing programme that matches University of Leeds students as pen pals with older Yorkshire residents.
Job Title: Life & Laughter Coach
Organisation: The Laughterline
Email: gerry@thelaughterline.com
Description: I run Laughter Training for individuals & groups and also Today Onwards Training
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Bonnie Day Limited
Email: gill@bonnie-day.co.uk
Description: We have facilitated person-centred activity sessions in professional settings. We found that our activities were enjoyed. We have published a number of resources which include a DVD & 3 poetry books with accompanying activities.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Brave Bold Drama
Email: bravebolddrama@gmail.com
Description: We are an award-winning theatre company and we also run a community arts centre "Creative Workspace" in Bristol that offers opportunities for all ages of the community to get creative.
Job Title: Creative / Director / Producer
Organisation: www.gillwhite.com
Email: hello@gillwhite.com
Description: Creative, Director and Producer of art, design and film led interactive experiences. I create particaptory led experiences like Art Adventures in Nature. Designed and developed with Arts, Dementia and Wellbeing at its core.
Job Title: Volunteer Director
Organisation: Mid Deeside Community Trust
Email: workstylechange@gmail.com
Description: Currently facilitating art and health promotion and exploring a social prescribing model.
Job Title: Bicester Engagement & Liaison Officer
Organisation: cherwell district council
Email: gillian.munday@cherwell-dc.gov.uk
Description: Working with a variety of audiences in Bicester in projects that relate to their wellbeing
Job Title: Creative performer
Organisation: Grand Gesture
Email: gillyhanna@hotmail.com
Description: Grand Gesture: a dance theatre project for talented performers over the age of sixty.
Job Title: visual artist
Organisation: gme
Email: photography@gingerliu.com
Description: I Have Lost Myself documents the daily rehearsals and technical experiments of Give Me the Key, filmed over a thirty-day period for a future live performance.
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: Self
Email: Ginnybrinkuk@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Artist, painter mainly landscapes in watercolour And oil.
Job Title: Community Relationships Officer
Organisation: Salisbury Playhouse
Email: gjenya.cambray@salisburyplayhouse.com
Description: Salisbury Playhouse currently hosts 2 over 55's creative groups - Mind The Gap theatre group and Dance Six-0. we are always looking at ways to improve and expand the opportunities for older people at our venue and in the wider community.
Job Title: Programme Director
Organisation: Music for Dementia 2020 - The Utley Foundation
Email: grace@m4d2020.com
Description: Music for Dementia 2020 is a national campaign with the vision to ensure everyone living with dementia has access to music.
Job Title: Arts Development Officer
Organisation: St Albans Arts Team
Email: grae.wall@1life.co.uk
Description: Promoting, developing and managing arts events and activities in and around the St Albans District.
Job Title: Research Officer
Organisation: Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Email: gstevenson@artscouncil-ni.org
Description: I mangage and produce research relating to an Arts and Older People Programme which has been run by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for 9 years.
Job Title: Lecturer in World Literature
Organisation: University of Oxford
Email: graham.riach@ell.ox.ac.uk
Description: I am a lecturer in world literature, currently working on a project on the links between ageing and creativity.
Job Title: Facilitator
Organisation: The WRITE STUFF Kids Club
Email: grainnemccool@eircom.net
Description: Facilitating children's Creative writing workshops
Job Title: Marketing and PR Consultant
Organisation: Hibbs Communications
Email: hibbs.pr@gmail.com
Description: I am a PR and marketing professional currently working in the field of biophilic design. Previously I worked as a consultant in the music industry for over 25 years.
Job Title: Associate Artist
Organisation: Equal Arts
Email: hannahwood_@hotmail.com
Description: Deliver creating arts workshops and session in London care settings. Workshops mainly focussing on story-telling, drama and theatre, working with older people and people living with dementia
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Independent Arts
Email: caroline@independentarts.org.uk
Description: Independent Arts is a small charity based on the Isle of Wight founded in 1987. We use the arts as a tool to improve health, wellbeing and quality of life for older people, and others in our community facing disadvantage or social isolation.
Job Title: curator of community history
Organisation: museum of norwich
Email: hannah.henderson@norfolk.gov.uk
Description: We are a museum committed to developing our age friendly programmes & working creatively with older people
Job Title: General Manager
Organisation: Arts & Health South West
Email: info@ahsw.org.uk
Description: Arts & Health South West is an information, support and advocacy organisation for everyone who believes in the value of creativity in enhancing health and wellbeing.
Job Title: Arts Project Coordinator
Organisation: Radford Care Group
Email: artspeak@radfordcaregroup.org.uk
Description: Hi I'm the Project Coordinator for ArtSpeak - a new peripatetic arts programme in Nottingham for people aged 60+. We're looking for champions and volunteers of any age and artists to deliver and promote the programme to our target audience.
Job Title: Communications Manager
Organisation: Ageing Better Middlesbrough
Email: hannah.warburton@middlesbroughandstocktonmind.org.uk
Description: We are a programme working to reduce loneliness and isolation in people aged over 50 in Middlesbrough. We also promote all the great things about getting older and share info on how to get more involved in communities, including activity guide.
Job Title: Co Artistic Director
Organisation: Smoking Apples Theatre Company
Email: hattie@smokingapplestheatre.com
Description: Using puppetry and visual theatre, we create innovative shows, making our subjects enjoyable and accessible for audiences. We also deliver outreach projects for people living with dementia, and for teenagers with autism.
Job Title: Lifelong Learning Manager
Organisation: Opera North
Email: education@operanorth.co.uk
Description: Opera North education offer weekly singing activity for older adults in Leeds in Kirklees. We work with around 150 adults per week. We encourage creativity and engagement in the arts,to increase wellbeing and provide the opportunity for friendship.
Job Title: Access and Community
Organisation: National Portrait Gallery
Email: hazelbasran@gmail.com
Description: Artist and Educator working in museums and art galleries.
Job Title: Project Coordinator for Health, Well-Being and Older People
Organisation: Live Music Now Wales
Email: heather.chandler@livemusicnow.org.uk
Description: Live Music Now is the UK's leading musicians' development and outreach charity. We provide exceptional live music experiences to people with limited access to the arts, due to disability, illness or social disadvantage.
Job Title: Community Gardening Project Manager
Organisation: St Luke's Community Centre
Email: hstabler@slpt.org.uk
Description: I manage a project called Growing Connections for a community centre in inner London. Growing Connections aims to use gardening as a basis for various well-being activities
Job Title: x
Organisation: x
Email: hakwcat@aol.com
Description: I teach, choreograph and seek to develop dance for older people in my locality and elsewhere.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Klawitter Theatre Group
Email: hedda@theatregroup.ie
Description: Klawitters mission is to benefit the community through the provision of interactive entertainment, to promote the wellbeing and enhance the quality of life of older people in residential care and healthcare settings.
Job Title: Volunteer Recruitment Officer
Organisation: ARCh
Email: info@archoxfordshire.org.uk
Description: ARCh is an Oxfordshire charity which recruits, trains, places and mentors Reading Helpers to provide 1:1 support to 6-11 year olds. We have 260 volunteers in 125 primary schools across the County supporting approximately 750 children each week.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Berwick Church
Email: berwickchurch@gmail.com
Description: Project Manager for an ambitious project linking capital works with outreach and engagement activity.
Job Title: Fundraising Information Manager
Organisation: Age UK
Email: helenvfinch@gmail.com
Description: I work with Age UK's national fundraising teams
Job Title: Museum Professional
Organisation: Freelance Museum Professional
Email: helenmfountain@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Museum Professional specialising in engaging older people in arts and heritage projects
Job Title: Education and Development Manager
Organisation: Swindon Dance
Email: helen.ganberg@swindondance.org.uk
Description: Swindon Dance is an ACE National Portfolio Dance Organisation based in the South West working with a vast range of people and communities.
Job Title: Learning & Participation Manager
Organisation: RWA
Email: helen.jacobs@rwa.org.uk
Description: Large public gallery in Bristol -Providing participatory arts activity and engagement opportunities and outreach in our wider community. Particular focus on reaching older people, adults accessing mental health services and young people.
Job Title: Producer, Community Engagement
Organisation: Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust
Email: helen@rght.org.uk
Description: I lead the community engagement programme for the Trust. My role involves working with communities to develop a programme that delivers meaningful and sustainable engagement.
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: Helena Edwards
Email: helenaedwards@btconnect.com
Description: I teach watercolour techniques to care home residents. I prepare drawings to which they add colour, which are then combined in a collage.
Job Title: Project Facilitator- Creative Elders Programme
Organisation: London Bubble
Email: helena@londonbubble.org.uk
Description: The three strands of our programme support maintaining independence, good health and wellbeing using creative activities to address the acute social isolation and lack of physical and emotional stimulation which we know effects the lives of so many.
Job Title: Arts manager and fundraiser
Organisation: Freelance
Email: henriettagill@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Community arts manager, fundraising strategist, bid writer, partnership guru - new to Lewes from Oxford.
Job Title: Arts & Health
Organisation: HOOT Creative Arts
Email: info@hootmusic.co.uk
Description: We believe we all have a creative and imaginative capacity that is of central importance to our mental and physical health. We support the development of creativity to build confidence and esteem, encourage personal growth and foster creative expression
Job Title: EngAge Rotherham Development Officer
Organisation: Age UK Rotherham
Email: iain.cloke@ageukrotherham.org
Description: I lead EngAge Rotherham an asset based initiative which has a vision for society transformed by the involvement of older people in meeting the challenges of later life. Also with an interest in textile art and spirituality
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Socialiniai meno projektai
Email: ieva.petkute@gbhi.org
Description: Arts for Health practice, with a particular focus on dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Job Title: Administrator
Organisation: Arts 4 Dementia
Email: amy@arts4dementia.org.uk
Description: Arts 4 Dementia re-energizes and inspires individuals with early stage dementia and their carers through arts workshops across the country.
Job Title: gestora cultural
Organisation: Centro Cultural Leopoldo Marechal
Email: ingridnmiler@gmail.com
Description: talleres, muestras, cudiado de la salud, conversatorios, charlas, ferias
Job Title: Project Co-ordinator
Organisation: Live Age Festival
Email: isla@liveagefestival.co.uk
Description: I co-ordinate the annual Live Age Festival in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire. The festival has run since 2014.
Job Title: Composer
Organisation: Freelance
Email: hurstjack@hotmail.com
Description: I am a collaborative composer. This year I am composing music for a community choir project working with over 60s and am co-creating a contemporary dance and music project in partnership with Norfolk Mental Health Services. www.jackhurstmusic.com
Job Title: Public Engagement (with Research) Fellow
Organisation: Keele University
Email: j.reynolds1@keele.ac.uk
Description: Social Gerontologist specialising in research on arts and ageing. Co-Director of the Live Age Festival, an annual celebration of later life creativity. Includes 'Meet Me at Live Age', funded by Arts Council England/Baring Foundation Celebrating Age award.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Arc
Email: jacqui@arc-centre.org
Description: Arc is an arts and health charity, based in Stockport GM. We offer a range of creative programmes which target vulnerable adults and young people, to improve mental health and increase confidence and resilience.
Job Title: Technical Support
Organisation: Age UK Oxfordshire
Email: database@ageukoxfordshire.org.uk
Description: Technical support.
Job Title: RCM
Organisation: Aman Care
Email: jahanara@amancare.co.uk
Description: Supporting service users in their own home to empower them to live as independently and safely for as long as possible in their own home
Job Title: Owner
Organisation: Make Mee Studio
Email: jaimegreenly@gmail.com
Description: Sewing and craft lessons
Job Title: Head of Public Partnerships
Organisation: Hull 2017 UK City of Culture
Email: james.trowsdale@hull2017.co.uk
Description: Hull was announced the winner of UK City of Culture 2017 in 2013. The award is given every four years to a city that demonstrates the belief in the transformational power of culture.
Job Title: Partnership Manager
Organisation: Orchestras Live
Email: jan@orchestraslive.org.uk
Description: We believe that orchestras are for everyone.With over 50 years experience we make world class orchestral music relevant to peoples lives through dynamic partnerships and innovative projects, particularly in culturally underserved areas of England.
Job Title: Learning Producer
Organisation: Historic Royal Palaces
Email: jana.haragalova@hrp.org.uk
Description: coordinating the Sensory Palaces programme-health and wellbeing programme for people living with dementia and their care partners
Job Title: Age Friendly Principal Officer
Organisation: Community Lincs
Email: jane.berni@communitylincs.com
Description: To achieve Age-Friendly Status (WHO) for East Lindsey (Lincolnshire)
Job Title: Retired Physician and Cardiologist
Organisation: Activities at Prestwood & CH
Email: ejfb51@gmail.com
Description: Reaching out to appreciative musical/poetry audiences (beginning as poetry reading in Care Homes) with poetry and new cross-genre harp tunes with interposed poems of my own.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Select:Life Long Song Ltd
Email: wright.j56@gmail.com
Description: Working to make singing and creative music accessible in the community, in residential settings and across the generations.
Job Title: Creativity Group Volunteer
Organisation: The Big Life Group
Email: janicetattersall@hotmail.com
Description: I run a small arts and crafts group each week
Job Title: Creative Arts Practitioner
Organisation: LAPIDUS
Email: thelifesymbolic@gmail.com
Description: a broad range of creative arts for insight, fun & therapeutic value, incl. journal keeping, making little books, collage, mixed media. Transforming that which is broken rejected / neglected into something whole & pleasing.
Job Title: Ms
Organisation: SHABBYSHOCK
Email: j.sultan@live.co.uk
Description: I create bespoke upcycled furniture in vivid colours. I also deliver Art sessions to service users.I deliver classes and workshops.I write for RELOVED magazine. I am a full member of Scottish Artists Union and a profile maker with Craft Scotland.
Job Title: Skin Care
Organisation: Shoreline Medical Spa
Email: AnklestiTI@gmail.com
Description: I am an experienced skin care specialist in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Job Title: Dementia Support Professional
Organisation: Wentworth Senior Living
Email: Jennad14@gmail.com
Description: I work in an assisted living facility as the Dementia Support Professional; I work on programming, staff and family education, and development of our dementia programming in the building.
Job Title: Director, Elders Company
Organisation: Southwark Playhouse and Unscene Suffolk
Email: jenni.halton@gmail.com
Description: Incoming director (Jan 2018) of over 65s performance company based at Southwark Playhouse. Founder & Director of Unscene Suffolk, a theatre company of visually impaired people.
Job Title: Shared Reading Facilitator
Organisation: Voluntary
Email: brook_tennyson@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I run Shared Reading groups in my local community and try to raise awareness of how the arts can contribute to good health and wellbeing. I do this by engaging with local community groups and organisations.
Job Title: Arts & Heritage Engagement Consultant
Organisation: Jenni Waugh Consulting Ltd
Email: jenni.waugh@talktalk.net
Description: I work with cultural organisations to increase opportunities for all people to release their creativity and explore their own histories. I offer project management, partnership building, fundraising, research and evaluation.
Job Title: Community Dance Artist
Organisation: MDI
Email: jennie@mdi.org.uk
Description: MDI are dedicated to inspire people through dance. Along with classes for people of all ages We provide classes and performance opportunities for people aged over 50, encouraging active and creative lifestyles as we age.
Job Title: Associate Director
Organisation: YES
Email: litherlandjm@aol.com
Description: Small inter generational projects with groups at margins of society.
Job Title: Community Engagement Officer
Organisation: National Trust
Email: jennifer.whiteoak@nationaltrust.org.uk
Description: Working with various community groups to ensure that our property is accessible to all. Specifically I work with schools, families, special needs groups and people living with Dementia and elderly care groups.
Job Title: Crafter
Organisation: Diffydolls
Email: diffydolls@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I offer arts & craft workshops including card making, painting and sewing. All crafts are tailored to suit the needs and requirements of the residents.
Job Title: Head of Campaign
Organisation: Family Arts Campaign
Email: jenny@thealbany.org.uk
Description: The Family Arts Campaign supports the arts sector to be inclusive for older audiences & participants and as well as promoting opportunities for older generations to experience high quality arts and culture.
Job Title: Head of Family Arts Campaign
Organisation: Family Arts Campaign
Email: jenny.daly@thealbany.org.uk
Description: Family Arts Campaign supports the cultural sector to welcome families of all ages, as well as find out about cultural opportunities available to them.
Job Title: Manager of The Second Half Centre and Kensington Programmes
Organisation: Open Age
Email: jmarshall@openage.org.uk
Description: We run a broad range of opportunities and activities together with our members, across health, leisure, well-being, education and employment so that everyone in London over the age of 50 lives a fulfilling life.
Job Title: Education Coordinator
Organisation: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Email: education@estorickcollection.com
Description: The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in London in 1998. Its new home - a Grade II listed Georgian building - was restored with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and contains six galleries, an art library, cafe and bookshop. The Collect
Job Title: Founder and teacher
Organisation: Dance4wellbeing
Email: jess@dance4wellbeing.com
Description: I work as an artist for the Arts Health Institute in Australia.Founder of Dance4wellbeing and Dance for Parkinson's Australia teacher
Job Title: Arts and Events Coordinator
Organisation: Miss
Email: jessica.corlett@ccht.org.uk
Description: Coordinating activities for a large London Housing Trust. Specialised in the Arts.
Job Title: Sales & Communications
Organisation: Settle Stories
Email: jessica@settlestories.org.uk
Description: Arts Storytelling Charity
Job Title: Senior Learning and Outreach Officer
Organisation: Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
Email: jessica.hartshorn@rugby.gov.uk
Description: We currently run a programme for older people called the 'Good Times' programme. This includes monthly arts and heritage sessions at The Art Gallery, Age UK Rugby and the local hospital.
Job Title: Community Engagement Manager
Organisation: Barbican
Email: Jessica.hodge@barbican.org.uk
Description: Community Engagement at the Barbican arts centre.
Job Title: Culture Champions Project Coordinator
Organisation: Stretford Public Hall
Email: jessica@stretfordpublichall.org.uk
Description: Delivery of an age-friendly cultural engagement programme for people 50+ based in Manchester, Trafford.
Job Title: Head of Education
Organisation: New Vic Theatre
Email: jillrezzano@hotmail.co.uk
Description: To manage a programme of creative participation, including Directing the Ages and Stages Theatre company and as a Co-Director of the Live Age festival.
Job Title: Communications & Events Coordinator
Organisation: Northern Print
Email: jillchambers@northernprint.org.uk
Description: An open access print studio in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne with printmaking courses for all and a gallery showing the very best in contemporary printmaking.
Job Title: Therapeutic Art Worker
Organisation: A Heart 4 Art
Email: Jo@aheart4art.co.uk
Description: We provide therapeutic art activities for care homes and assisted living accommodation to help decrease social isolation and loneliness. Activities are tailor-made to support individual creativity and self-expression and enhance well-being.
Job Title: Communications Manager
Organisation: Centre for London
Email: joanna.corfield@centreforlondon.org
Description: I work for a think tank undertaking research on London's challenges - anything from the housing crisis, to transport and arts.
Job Title: Learning Programmer
Organisation: Compton Verney
Email: joanna.essen@comptonverney.org.uk
Description: Run a monthly Dementia cafe in the galleries with artists.
Job Title: Assistant Outreach Officer
Organisation: Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums
Email: joanne.charlton@twmuseums.org.uk
Description: Assistant Outreach Officer for Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums
Job Title: craft activity provider
Organisation: Creative Mojo South Bristol and Bath
Email: jo@creativemojo.co.uk
Description: I offer Craft activity sessions in care homes and the community for the elderly and people with learning and physical disabilities and mental healt conditions
Job Title: Writer / Director / Producer
Organisation: It'snotus
Email: fetchtheatre@gmail.com
Description: I am a theatre maker, producing independent thought provoking theatre.
Job Title: Chief Executive
Organisation: Oxford House in Bethnal Green
Email: john.ryan@oxfordhouse.org.uk
Description: Oxford House is where East London comes together to work, learn, explore and create. We celebrate arts, community and our heritage.
Job Title: Chairman
Organisation: PCAT
Email: john.cook@pcat.org.uk
Description: I help in a number of local community groups, including a 60+ companion group, a dementia cafe and chair the local CAT.
Job Title: Digital Participation Curator
Organisation: Derby QUAD
Email: participation@derbyquad.co.uk
Description: Creative Wellbeing arts engagement across multiple age groups
Job Title: Partnership Manager
Organisation: Creative Minds
Email: john.withey@creativemindsan.co.uk
Description: As Partnership Manager I help to create lasting partnerships with those groups and organisations who have similar social aims to Creative Minds.
Job Title: Chief Executive
Organisation: Age Concern Colchester
Email: jonathan.moore@ageconcerncolchester.org.uk
Description: Making lives of Older People in Borough of Colchester happier & healthier
Job Title: Lead Co-ordinator
Organisation: Mencap / Fabrica
Email: cliqued@gmail.com
Description: Social and cultural inclusion.
Job Title: Community Music Practitioner
Organisation: Music That Cares
Email: Jonbrewer73@gmail.com
Description: Visiting care settings across Pembrokeshire with Singspiration Singing Activities for older people & those with Dementia. Also run StreetBeats drumming sessions
Job Title: Seo
Organisation: locus assignments
Email: smithassignment1@gmail.com
Description: I am a content writer at locus assignments.
Job Title: Dance and Movement Practitioner
Organisation: Independent
Email: josephine.h@outlook.com
Description: Dance practitioner and somatic movement educator working in Theatre, Education and Healthcare.
Job Title: Life Story Writer
Organisation: Elephant Memoirs
Email: joss.carpreau@ntlworld.com
Description: I help older people record their life stories in books to hand down to future generations.
Job Title: Services Manager
Organisation: Poole Well-being Collaborative
Email: judith.bacon@pwbcollaborative.org.uk
Description: Run the Poole sical Prescription Service so always looking for interesting and innovative ideas to share with people who want to expand their social networks
Job Title: Research Associate
Organisation: University of Manchester
Email: judith.bek@manchester.ac.uk
Description: Research into perception and action in Parkinson's and older adults; dance for movement and well-being
Job Title: Trustee
Organisation: Age UK Oxfordshire
Email: judith@cittern.demon.co.uk
Description: Former academic in English literature, musician, and current interest in outcome measures in health/social care
Job Title: Communications Assistant
Organisation: Ambition for Ageing
Email: julia.battersby@gmcvo.org.uk
Description: I write news stories, newsletters, web content and tweets on behalf of Ambition for Ageing, part of GMCVO
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: The Poetry Society
Email: jbird@poetrysociety.org.uk
Description: The Poetry Society is one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Organisation: NHS
Email: julia.boot@merseycare.nhs.uk
Description: I provide psychological support for older people with mental health problems in a community mental health team and memory service.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: DiversityRx
Email: rcchc@aol.com
Description: Promoting creative wellbeing approaches, especially for culturally diverse populations
Job Title: Senior Day Centre Officer
Organisation: Social Care
Email: jbwye@hillingdon.gov.uk
Description: Work with service users with a diagnosis of Dementia and complex needs
Job Title: Art in Healthcare Consultant
Organisation: Self employed
Email: jcangrand@gmail.com
Description: I'm an art in healthcare consultant based in Boston. I specialize in curating innovative art project and developing creative arts programs in partnership with museums in hospitals and senior living residences.
Job Title: Creative development officer
Organisation: Telford & Wrekin Council
Email: justine.ranson@telford.gov.uk
Description: working on a range of projects using creativity to improve health outcomes for people of all ages
Job Title: Health Improvement Principal
Organisation: Sheffield City Council
Email: karen.harrison5@nhs.net
Description: Lead role in developing Sheffield as a Cultural ageing friendly City
Job Title: Director of Health and Wellbeing
Organisation: The Charterhouse
Email: karen.singleton@thecharterhouse.org
Description: I am the manager working within an Alms House in Central London, providing housing to over 40 men and women. In addition, we provide domiciliary and residential care to people who are more vulnerable requiring additional support.
Job Title: Research Officer
Organisation: DSDC Wales Research Centre, Bangor University
Email: k.algar@bangor.ac.uk
Description: I am a dementia care researcher passionate about improving the quality of life and wellbeing of people living with dementia and those who support them, and in particular through the arts.
Job Title: Creative Age Programme Manager
Organisation: equal arts
Email: kate@equalarts.org.uk
Description: managing the creative age programme for cultural organisations to establish and deliver imagination based, dementia friendly older people creative programmes.
Job Title: Development Manager
Organisation: Quality of Life Partnership
Email: kate.bowman@qualityoflife.org.uk
Description: We run a website in Newcastle for people aged over 50 aimed at signposting to resources. We research key topics of interest. We focus on the positive aspects of ageing
Job Title: Schlegel Innovation Leader in Arts and Aging
Organisation: Sheridan Centre for Elder Research
Email: kate.dupuis@sheridancollege.ca
Description: In my current role, my focus is on identifying the benefits of arts programming for an older population, and determining potential barriers and facilitators to participation in the arts.
Job Title: Deputy Director
Organisation: Oxfordshire County Council
Email: kate.macleod@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Description: Bringing Libraries, Museums and History services closer to local communities to support and promote health, wellbeing and connections across all generations.
Job Title: Community Engagement Officer
Organisation: The New Room, John Wesley's Chapel
Email: community@newroombristol.org.uk
Description: We organise community events and partner with local organisation to promote wellbeing and connect our community with the history, stories and people of the New Room.
Job Title: Museum & Heritage Community Learning Officer
Organisation: Museum of Oxford
Email: ktoomey@oxford.gov.uk
Description: I manage the delivery of the Museum of Oxford's services for all of our audiences.
Job Title: Administrator
Organisation: Dance in Devon
Email: administrator@danceindevon.org.uk
Description: Dance in Devon is the countywide dance development agency for Devon.
Job Title: Project Coordinator
Organisation: Magic Me
Email: katherineeves@magicme.co.uk
Description: Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together to build a stronger, safer community. Our projects often link unlikely partners. Young people aged 8+ and adults aged 60+ team up through shared, creative activity.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Beauty and Utility Arts
Email: beautyandutilityarts@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Beauty and Utility Arts is an Arts, Heritage and Wellbeing social enterprise. We develop and deliver creative projects and products and work mostly with older community members.
Job Title: Deputy Manager
Organisation: The Beehive, Honiton
Email: katheryn@beehivehoniton.co.uk
Description: The Beehive is a vibrant community venue in Honiton, East Devon with a programme of live events, cinema & space for community activities, exhibitions, workshops, meetings and conferences.
Job Title: Project Coordinator
Organisation: Bury Creatives
Email: katie.burycreatives@gmail.com
Description: Amongst other projects I lead an outreach engagement project for Bury Art Museum that aims to support young people to develop social and creative skills.
Job Title: Phd Candidate
Organisation: Mrs
Email: kathleen.e.r.mitchell@gmail.com
Description: Early career researcher focusing my PhD study on the lasting effects and impact of City of Culture bids on wellbeing
Job Title: Administrator
Organisation: Farnham Maltings
Email: katie.stock@farnhammaltings.com
Description: Arts and Health at the Farnham Maltings
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: self employed
Email: katrynsaqui@gmail.com
Description: I Create playful interactive communicative experiences, where artwork acts as a potential trigger for emplacement in society and shape new relationships.
Job Title: Management Team
Organisation: 3rdthought
Email: keiron@3rdthought.eu
Description: 3rdthought is an older persons theatre group based in London, creating new performances and collaborations, and using technology to enable more frail actors to take part in performances from home.
Job Title: Company Secretary
Organisation: Encore Theatre Company
Email: keiron@encoretheatrecompany.co.uk
Description: We perform original work showcasing the talents of the company and challenging the stereotypes of ageing. We are also a resident theatre company at LSBU using drama to enhance student learning.
Job Title: Facilitator
Organisation: Movingsounds
Email: keith@movingsounds.org
Description: Facilitator and director for community art and health organisation Movingsounds CIC.
Job Title: Community Engagement Manager
Organisation: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Email: k.robinson@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Description: Our Art for Older People Programme offers a wide variety of free creative workshops, interactive and sensory guided tours, immersive storytelling sessions and arts projects, which can be delivered at the Gallery or in local community settings.
Job Title: Age Friendly Nottinghamshire- Neighbourhood Co-ordinator
Organisation: Nottinghamshire County Council
Email: kevin.tennant1@nottscc.gov.uk
Description: Age Friendly Nottinghamshire is a pilot project in two areas of Nottinghamshire,supporting the development of social action to address the loneliness and isolation of older people.
Job Title: Owner
Organisation: Creative Mojo Chichester & Havant
Email: Kym@creativemojo.co.uk
Description: Fun,hands on and inspirational arts and craft activities for care homes and community groups.
Job Title: Cultural development officer
Organisation: Reading Borough Council
Email: lara.stavrinou@reading.gov.uk
Description: Managing Reading's Great Place Scheme, which places arts, culture and heritage at the heart of communities. This includes piloting cultural commissioning, managing outreach for a new flagship festival and developing partnerships and networks
Job Title: Community Coordinator
Organisation: 64 Million Artists
Email: laura@64millionartists.com
Description: 64 Million Artists is a national campaign to unlock the potential of everyone in the UK through creativity. Working across Health, Education, Workplaces and more.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: L Pottinger Arts Management
Email: lcpottinger82@gmail.com
Description: I am a freelance fundraiser working with several organisations in Beds and Bucks who work with older people.
Job Title: Operations Coordinator
Organisation: Magpie Dance
Email: l.whitlock@magpiedance.org.uk
Description: Magpie Dance is the UK's leading dance charity working with people with learning disabilities. Since 1985 we have been running workshops and dance classes for children and adults.
Job Title: Sales
Organisation: Lance Print
Email: laurence@lanceprint.co.uk
Description: Charity sector
Job Title: Project Assistant
Organisation: Creative Arts East
Email: lea@creativeartseast.co.uk
Description: Creative Arts East delivers a wide portfolio of participatory projects aimed at providing cultural, educational and volunteer development opportunities (along with improved health & wellbeing) to individuals and communities across the east.
Job Title: Cultural Partnership Manager
Organisation: Wolves Foundation
Email: leahbiddle@wolvesfoundation.com
Description: Older adults dance and performance groups for adults aged 50+ in Warrington. Developing CPD dance training for other artists and organisations.
Job Title: Artist/activist
Organisation: Older Women Rock!
Email: leah@leahthorn.com
Description: Through performance, poetry, fashion, film, workshops and talks 'Older Women Rock!' celebrates older women, challenges our invisibility, unites us across our differences and subverts assumptions.
Job Title: Manager
Organisation: LDCA
Email: enquiries@leominstercommunitycentre.com
Description: Community Centre offering room hire and educational and arts based projects
Job Title: Senior Research Manager
Organisation: Age UK
Email: libby.archer@ageuk.org.uk
Description: Interests in a broad spectrum of ageing research.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Life Long Song Ltd
Email: lifelongsong@outlook.com
Description: Helping to make active and creative music and singing available to older people and across the generations
Job Title: Older People's Creative
Organisation: Freelance Practitioner
Email: lilyfcraig@gmail.com
Description: I am a freelance theatre practitioner that works with older adults in a range of different contexts. Currently training to be a Dementia Care Mapper.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Tunbridge Wells Puppetry Festival
Email: linda@twpuppetryfestival.org
Description: WE produce a puppetry festival every two years in Tunbridge Wells. In this interim year (2018) we are working with puppetry in the community
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: Creative Stays
Email: events@creativestays.co.uk
Description: To support people to stay well & make the most of life by engaging them in creative activities and peer encouragement that promote self-confidence, build interpersonal skills, & empower strategies to increase mental wellbeing
Job Title: Project Organiser
Organisation: Age UK Staffordshire
Email: lisa.hibbert@ageukstaffordshire.org.uk
Description: Our Intergenerational Project recruits volunteers over the age of 50 to help out in local primary schools across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, primarily supporting pupils with literacy
Job Title: Participation Producer
Organisation: Pavilion Dance South West
Email: lisal@pdsw.org.uk
Description: Pavilion Dance South West is a registered charity (1111641) dedicated to transforming communities through dance.
Job Title: none
Organisation: none
Email: lisa@gardencottage.org.uk
Description: I am a part-time counsellor. Self-employed.
Job Title: Clinical Research Practitioner
Organisation: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Email: lthomson9@nhs.net
Description: Actively promoting research amongst clinicians service users and the wider NHS and offering advice and support and referring to other sources of advice as appropriate and managing patients through the research project
Job Title: London Regional Manager
Organisation: The Reader
Email: lizison@thereader.org.uk
Description: Across the UK, we run weekly Shared Reading groups bringing great books, poems and plays to life through reading aloud and group discussion in a diverse range of settings
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Small Things Creative Projects
Email: liz@smallthings.org.uk
Description: Small Things is an artist-led social enterprise using creativity and creative engagement to fuel learning and change.
Job Title: Sound Therapist and Voice Practitioner
Organisation: Blissful Dragon Therapeutic Sound
Email: music@blissfuldragon.com
Description: Facilitating sound and music workshops, group singing for health and wellbeing sessions.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Studio 3 Arts
Email: liza@studio3arts.org.uk
Description: I run a socially-engaged arts practice in Barking and Dagenham. We've got a community-curated venue i Barking, with an in-house programme and lots of visiting companies. We've just been funded by ACE to deliver Celebrating Age.
Job Title: Music Teacher
Organisation: self
Email: elizabethcackett@gmail.com
Description: Music teacher in FE wanting to find out how to develop my work outside of the young people age range.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Email: e.green@trinitylaban.ac.uk
Description: Manager for Trinity Laban's Inspired not Tired programme of regular music and dance activity for older adults. We regularly get out and about and share our work in the Lewisham community and beyond.
Job Title: Participation and Marketing officer
Organisation: Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru
Email: llinos.jones@theatr.com
Description: My work here is to reach out to the communities, and encourage people to take part in the arts, for their well being/health and many other benefits.
Job Title: Maker
Organisation: Red Barn Creative
Email: lorena@redbarncreative.org.uk
Description: I run or help run Crafternoons, Heritage Open Days, Fun Palaces and anything else that brings the communities together, particularly via creativity (traditional and digital) and heritage.
Job Title: Learning Care Coordinator
Organisation: Park Theatre
Email: access@parktheatre.co.uk
Description: We provide Creative Learning classes called 'Park Players Reminiscence' for people affected by dementia and their carers or families, as part of our wider Creative Learning Programme.
Job Title: Regional Manager London & South
Organisation: Volunteering Matters
Email: louis.boyd@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
Description: Volunteering Matters facilitates an array of projects across the UK that have health & wellbeing at the heart of them. These projects reach out to older people, people living with disabilities, employers, young people & families.
Job Title: Group facilitator
Organisation: The Alzheimer's Society
Email: louisa.marchantwallis@gmail.com
Description: I am an Occupational Therapist;currently facilitating groups for older people living with dementia and their carers.
Job Title: EFT practitioner/trainee dramatherapist
Organisation: Creatively calm/think light theatre
Email: Louiseholly@live.co.uk
Description: I am a theatre maker, EFT practitioner and current training to become a dramatherapist.
Job Title: Freelance Artist
Organisation: Imagine Me Creative
Email: louisecrowe76@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I deliver creative and art based workshops in care homes for people over the age of 65, particularly for those living with dementia.
Job Title: Older Persons Coordinator
Organisation: Leicester Ageing Together
Email: louise@leicesterageingtogether.org.uk
Description: Leicester Ageing Together is a Big Lottery funded partnership. delivering services and activities to improve the lives of older people
Job Title: Community Partnerships Manager
Organisation: Chichester Festival Theatre
Email: louise.rigglesford@cft.org.uk
Description: Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UKs flagship theatres renowned for the exceptionally high standard of its productions as well as its work with the community and young people.
Job Title: Archivist
Organisation: William Scott Foundation
Email: lucy.inglis@williamscott.org
Description: Archivist in charge of the archive of the 20th century British artist William Scott RA (1913-1989).
Job Title: Administrator
Organisation: Luminate
Email: info@luminatescotland.org
Description: Luminate, Scotland's creative ageing organisation, runs a diverse programme of creative events and activities throughout the year, including an annual arts festival running from 1st to 31st October across Scotland.
Job Title: Project Development Officer
Organisation: Suffolk Artlink
Email: lynn@suffolkartlink.org.uk
Description: A project to bring arts activities to older people in isolated rural areas.
Job Title: Director of Policy and Engagement
Organisation: Beth Johnson Foundation
Email: lynne.wealleans@bjf.org.uk
Description: Delivery of specialist advocacy and support services. Promoting positive ageing through training and workshop sessions including transitions to retirement and later life. Involved in research projects about key aspects of life as we are ageing.
Job Title: Artist, Designer, Crafter, Volunteer
Organisation: Freelance
Email: studiomagda@ymail.com
Description: Artist/crafter working as a volunteer in the museum. I'm running creative workshops for individuals or small groups. I've got few years of experience working with older people. Hopefully Art Therapist one day.
Job Title: Creative Collaborator, Director, Consultant, Teaching Artist
Organisation: Freelance
Email: creative@magdalenaschamberger.com
Description: I have a special interest in co-creating high-quality performances with and for people living with dementia. Most recent projects are Curious Shoes, collaborative performances for people with dementia, and Artful Minds, experiential training for artists
Job Title: Equality & Access Manager
Organisation: Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Email: maggie.dent@oxfordshireccg.nhs.uk
Description: Working in partnership to address health inequalities. Ensuring equality of access to services
Job Title: Co-founder
Organisation: Rejuvenate !
Email: Maggiesan@live.co.uk
Description: I am co-founder of a Creative Carers Group called 'Rejuvenate !' in Hereford. We are now in year 3 and developing the group to reach out to Carers in Herefordshire. Check us out on FB and Instagram
Job Title: Head of participation
Organisation: Collective Encounters
Email: mandy@collective-encounters.org.uk
Description: As Head of Participation I am the overall lead re our Participation programme, and manage the artistic team. I am also the artistic lead on our Creative aging programme, our third Age theatre company and our work with people with dementia.
Job Title: musician
Organisation: retired
Email: meeniericher@gmail.com
Description: At the present, I am taking my PAT dog to a local rest home. However, I am a musician and have been involved in music therapy (not with the elderly). Would like ideas for activities using music.
Job Title: Gestion Cultural
Organisation: library of the congress of the nation
Email: eugenialuccioni@gmail.com
Description: I work in the cultural space of the library trying to develop activities that promote intergenerational coexistence.
Job Title: Community Participation
Organisation: Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust
Email: m.flude@simt.co.uk
Description: I'm a community engagement professional working for Industrial Museums in Sheffield with a focus on health and well-being and older people & dementia.
Job Title: Arts Therapist/ Historian of Art
Organisation: Independent
Email: smliz@icloud.com
Description: I'm a historian of art, arts therapist and counseling student. Interested in working with older adults through expressive arts and museums. From Argentina!
Job Title: Marketing & Audience Development
Organisation: Made In Corby
Email: marian@madeincorby.co.uk
Description: Made in Corby is an ambitious programme aiming to ensure that more local people than ever before will see, experience, create and take part in high quality arts activities.
Job Title: Outreach Officer
Organisation: Alexandra Palace
Email: marine.begault@alexandrapalace.com
Description: develop an accessible arts and wellbeing programme with and for the local community inspired by Alexandra Park and Palace's rich and diverse heritage.
Job Title: General Manager
Organisation: Magic Me
Email: info@magicme.co.uk
Description: Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together to build a stronger, safer community.
Job Title: Artist and Theatre Practioner
Organisation: Freelance Practioner
Email: mark.croasdale@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Mark utilises a range of media according the specific needs, demands and context of each project. The thread linking all of his work is storytelling which he uses to create an interactive experience for the audience.
Job Title: Programme Manager Dance & Movement
Organisation: City Lit
Email: martin.wimpress@citylit.ac.uk
Description: We offer evening, weekend & daytime dance classes for adults of all ages & all levels. We run bespoke Dance 60+ classes to the more traditional. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to hone & improve technique, we've got a dance course for you.
Job Title: artist
Organisation: none
Email: mary.millner@gmail.com
Description: I am a painter, sculptor and curator and I teach part-time
Job Title: Home Library Team Leader
Organisation: Hornsby Library
Email: mryder@hornsby.nsw.gov.au
Description: Delivery of library services to older people
Job Title: Creative Consultant
Organisation: Waking the Giant Heritage & Arts Consultancy
Email: wakingthegiant@live.co.uk
Description: Working within museums, heritage and arts organisations, or wherever it works! Project management experience, storytelling, heritage interpretation, arts projects reminiscence and memory boxes.
Job Title: Development Manager
Organisation: LUMA Creations
Email: maya@lumacreations.org
Description: Working with elders delivering workshops creative arts, music, creative writing, photography drumming and percussion, theatre, volunteer training
Job Title: Development Manager
Organisation: OLC Productions
Email: maya@onelatinculture.com
Description: OLC work with elders in tackling social isolation through creative arts & events with a Latin American influence. We work in the community & our projects end with an event that bring together people,their art, music, rhythm and dance.
Job Title: Centre Manager
Organisation: Fearon Community Association Ltd
Email: Office@fearonhall.org.uk
Description: Good old fashioned community centre connecting people through food and opportunity. Socially and environmentally aware.
Job Title: Audience Development Manager
Organisation: The Lowry
Email: megan.tripp@thelowry.com
Description: Audience development for The Lowry, including leading on accessible and dementia-friendly events.
Job Title: Participation Director
Organisation: Oxford Playhouse
Email: learning@oxfordplayhouse.com
Description: Oxford Playhouse is a theatre for everyone, presenting and producing a wide range of live performance. The Participation team works with over 15,000 people each year through talks, workshops, holiday schemes, and Playhouse theatre companies.
Job Title: Development Manager
Organisation: Stratford Circus Arts Centre
Email: mia@stratford-circus.com
Description: Stratford Circus Arts Centre is a charity and arts centre that is inclusive and open to all, with over 125,000 visitors a year. Last year we reached over 16,000 children and young people through performances, workshops and classes.
Job Title: Managine Director
Organisation: LivMD UK LTD
Email: msmith@livmd.co.uk
Description: Launching the first medical device in the world to treat and cure Osteoporosis and also act as a Fall Prevention device to improve Mobility, Independence and Quality of Life
Job Title: Professor of Psychology
Organisation: Keele University
Email: m.murray@keele.ac.uk
Description: Community arts and ageing
Job Title: Consultant Occupational Therapist
Organisation: Albany Theatre, London
Email: michellegersh@hotmail.com
Description: I advise and consult with organisations to reduce barriers experienced by older adults wanting to participate in creative arts activities and to make environments more accessible for participation.
Job Title: Manager
Organisation: 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Email: michelle.lally@northlincs.gov.uk
Description: We are a gallery in North Lincolnshire. We have a lively activity programme working with all ages.
Job Title: Customer Services
Organisation: Oxfordshire County Council
Email: michelle.odonohue@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Description: I work in a busy county counicl library and we have a wide age range of borrowers and who are diverse in their needs and interests. I'd like to offer a little event to our customers who can be very creative themselves!
Job Title: Co Director
Organisation: New Vic Theatre
Email: michellerickett@hotmail.com
Description: I co direct the Live Age Festival and Meet Me at Live Age programme, which celebrate the creativity of older people in North Staffordshire. Live Age is a collaboration between the New Vic Theatre and Keele University.
Job Title: Owner
Organisation: The Book Surgeon
Email: info@booksurgeon.co.uk
Description: Traditional book binder who restores & creates new books. Folded book art and variety of presentations & workshops also offered.
Job Title: Producer
Organisation: Miss
Email: amy@humanstorytheatre.com
Description: Human Story Theatre focuses on new writing with a health and social care issue at heart. We partner with local organisations pertaining to the issue explored in each play and always hold post-show Q&As with guest speakers from these organisations.
Job Title: Dementia Nurse
Organisation: Ms
Email: rowanmoira@hotmail.com
Description: Am fascinated in remaining fit and healthy far into ones senior years
Job Title: Learning Officer
Organisation: Turner Contemporary
Email: mrmolloy@turnercontemporary.org
Description: Working closely with members of the Learning, Visitor Experience and Exhibitions teams, as well as other partners, deliver a creative and innovative programme of learning opportunities for families, members of the community and diverse audiences.
Job Title: Co-Artistic Director
Organisation: Smoking Apples
Email: mail@smokingapplestheatre.com
Description: Smoking Apples are an award winning puppetry and visual theatre company.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Company of Others
Email: nadia@companyofothers.org.uk
Description: We create work which highlights and shares stories of the human experience, drawn from the diverse communities we work with to create relevant, exposing and poignant dance theatre.
Job Title: Assistant Programme Manager
Organisation: The Reading Agency
Email: natalie.frost@readingagency.org.uk
Description: Reading Friends, a programme from The Reading Agency, brings people together to read, share stories, meet new friends and have fun.
Job Title: Dramatherapist
Organisation: Interactors
Email: nathaliefriel@gmail.com
Description: I am an experienced Dramatherapist, arts facilitator and performer.
Job Title: Artist commissions coordinator
Organisation: SPACE
Email: nathalie@spacestudios.org.uk
Description: I work as a curator for an arts organisation in Hackney. We are building a 'network of care' in our area through partnerships with community organisations. This has a focus on art workshops for older people & bringing art into non-art venues.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Musical Memories CIC
Email: neil@musicalmemoriescic.org.uk
Description: Musical Memories provides fun social singing sessions for older people in community venues in Ryedale North Yorkshire to help combat loneliness and isolation. Participant ages range from 30-96.
Job Title: Administrator
Organisation: London Arts in Health Forum
Email: neil@lahf.org.uk
Description: London Arts in Health Forum is a membership organisation which aims to develop the role of culture in wellbeing and to promote and support arts in health activity across London and nationally.
Job Title: Activities Coordinator
Organisation: Barking Dog
Email: nenaghwatson@gmail.com
Description: I'm a professional puppeteer & my day job is as an Activities Coordinator and my job satisfaction is sky high! Empowering via creativity is top of my agenda.
Job Title: Marketing Department
Organisation: New Theatre Oxford
Email: oxfordpress@theambassadors.com
Description: The premier arts and entertainment venue in Oxford.
Job Title: Facilitator & Director
Organisation: Creative Writes
Email: info@creativewrites.co.uk
Description: I deliver creative writing & read aloud poetry workshops (mainly with older people). Settings include social housing; care homes/sheltered housing. I also work in centres which use the arts for wellbeing. I am a member of Lapidus.
Job Title: Musician/Composer
Organisation: Freelance
Email: n.j.jones@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I am a composer and musician with many years experience working in theatre, education and care settings. I specialise in creating music with people with special needs and am currently working with people with dementia writing music about their lives.
Job Title: National Specialist Support Manager - Care and Support
Organisation: Hanover Housing Association
Email: nicky.ellison@hanover.org.uk
Description: Strategic and operational lead for extra care and support services within housing association specialising in older peoples housing
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Rise Architects
Email: nicola.few@risearchitects.com
Description: We are architects interested in community projects which promote opportunities for intergenerational connections.
Job Title: Information Manager
Organisation: Centre for Policy on Ageing
Email: nhilliard@cpa.org.uk
Description: Manage library of books, journals etc on ageing
Job Title: Producer (Learning & Participation)
Organisation: Spitalfields Music
Email: nicole.artingstall@spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk
Description: Music charity working with people of all ages across East London.
Job Title: Artist/designer
Organisation: self employed
Email: nicolegriffin2013@gmail.com
Description: Painting, collage, mixed media and mosaic. Workshops and community projects.
Job Title: Movement Meditation Teacher
Organisation: dancing Tao
Email: nikki@dancingtao.net
Description: dancingTao is a community interest company that promotes health and wellbeing through movement and dance to individuals and communities. Offering classes for older people and reachout projects to care centres and homes for older people.
Job Title: Business Development Manager
Organisation: Loudwater Studio
Email: nicola.hook@visionhomes.org.uk
Description: Loudwater Studio is an arts and crafts studio recognising the importance of creative pursuits to assist everyone in their general health and well-being and offers the opportunity for people of all abilities to get creative in any way.
Job Title: Exercise Therapist
Organisation: Envolve Wellness
Email: nora@envolvewell.com
Description: I deliver specialist exercise interventions to people with long-term health conditions, dance for parkinson's, boxercise for autism, cardio for less mobiled populations
Job Title: Festival director
Organisation: Crystal Palace Festival Group CIC
Email: info@crystalpalacefestival.org
Description: We want to make sure that arts, heritage and culture are accessible to all as we firmly believe in the power of creativity and we know we can improve and enhance the life of our community through involvement in such activities.
Job Title: Researcher / Facilitator
Organisation: MovingSounds
Email: nualafriedman@yahoo.com
Description: I am studying a MSc Social Research Methods to work towards a PhD in the area of arts/music in health and social care
Job Title: Community Engagement Manager
Organisation: Lister Steps
Email: olivia.johnson@listersteps.co.uk
Description: Restoring a Grade II listed library into a community hub, running a range of events & activities for our local community throughout project & once building re-opens
Job Title: Media & Communications
Organisation: Ag eUk Herefordshire & Worcestershire
Email: otoye@ageukhw.org.uk
Description: We are an independent, local charity and brand partner of Age UK, working in the two counties and striving to make Herefordshire and Worcestershire a great place to grow older.
Job Title: Adult Programme Coordinator
Organisation: Orleans House Gallery
Email: artseducaion@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk
Description: Orleans House Gallery is a free public art gallery in the London Borough of Richmond.
Job Title: Chair
Organisation: Greenbuttercup CIC
Email: Pamela@shadow26.plus.com
Description: Community art is one of the methods used by Greenbuttercup CIC to enable service users to achieve full participation in all spheres of society.
Job Title: Client Services & Impact Director
Organisation: Oomph! Wellness
Email: parita@oomph-wellness.org
Description: We train and support staff in care settings around activity and exercise provision to improve quality of life of older and vulnerable people.
Job Title: member/
Organisation: breathe easy southwark
Email: patriciacaro@btopenworld.com
Description: Ii am a member of a singing group for people with copd the majority of our members are 55+
Job Title: Consultant
Organisation: Independent
Email: paullewiscann@gmail.com
Description: Working to promote the role of creative arts and its accessibility to older and disadvantaged people
Job Title: Learning Coordinator
Organisation: Oxford Playhouse
Email: paul.simpson@oxfordplayhouse.com
Description: Creating opportunities for the people of Oxfordshire to have a platform to share and explore creativity.
Job Title: Marketing Officer
Organisation: Chancery House Day Care Centre
Email: marketing@chanceryhouse.org.uk
Description: Providing care and companionship for the over 55s and professional respite care for those with dementia or memory loss
Job Title: Lecturer in Dance & Somatic Movement
Organisation: University of Central Lancashire
Email: PSCollinson@uclan.ac.uk
Description: I am a teacher of dance and somatic movement Education(SME)both at UCLan (MA Dance & Somatic Well-being), and as a private practice, I am also a member of the Knowing Body Network which seeks to share promote and develop the field of SME.
Job Title: Co-ordinator/ Designer/ Artist
Organisation: Passionarte
Email: pchristensen05@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Mindful art courses to spark creativity & improve well-being. Fun, inclusive and collaborative. 4 week courses every Tuesday, starting 21st May at Clarkes Art Shop, Brighton. No experience needed - all abilities welcome, Age 16+.
Job Title: Proprietor
Organisation: Art etcetera
Email: petaharper@hotmail.com
Description: Provising Art for Wellbeing workshops for groups and individuals (elderly, disabled, SEN)
Job Title: Professor of Events and Experience Marketing
Organisation: Leeds Beckett University
Email: e.wood@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Description: Researching older rurally based women and the role of particpatory arts events in their wellbeing
Job Title: Creative Arts Coordinator
Organisation: Central & Cecil
Email: rachael.dinnage@ccht.org.uk
Description: C&C is a social landlord providing housing for over 55's in London. As Creative Arts Coordinator I organise arts projects and activities to promote wellbeing and social inclusion, and to help build communities in our sheltered housing schemes.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Leaf Creative Arts CIC
Email: Leafcreativearts@gmail.com
Description: We provide creative opportunities for people with dementia and mental health issues.
Job Title: Owner / Artist
Organisation: iPrintedThat
Email: iprintedthat@outlook.com
Description: Printmaking workshops including Gelli Art, mono printing, linocut, screen printing and still life collage. Workshops give beginners and advanced learners the opportunity to experiment with texture, colour and print.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: START
Email: rachel.jones@startinspiringminds.org.uk
Description: At Start in Salford, we use creativity to help people from all walks of life improve their skills and gain in confidence.
Job Title: Creative Learning
Organisation: Southend Theatres
Email: rachelt@osuthendtheatres.org.uk
Description: Southend Theatres programmes a wide range ofproductions suitable for all ages. It's Community and Education department regularly host dementia friendly events including dementia friendly storytelling, cinema screenings and relaxed performances.
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: Step Change Studios
Email: contact@stepchangestudios.com
Description: Step Change Studios is committed to making dance accessible to everyone. We offer fun, engaging opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people of all ages and abilities to dance, create, and perform.
Job Title: Creative Director
Organisation: Ms
Email: rebecca.ball@sunderlandculture.org.uk
Description: Sunderland Culture runs a arts and cultural programme across 5 venues in Sunderland including - Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Arts Centre Washington, National Glass Centre and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Job Title: National Management Trainee
Organisation: Reading Borough Council
Email: rebecca.lindsay@reading.gov.uk
Description: I am currently a management trainee in the cultural commissioning team of Reading Borough Council. I want to sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest initiatives to engage older adults, and to see best practise.
Job Title: Dance artist
Organisation: freelance
Email: rebsmm@gmail.com
Description: I co-ordinate Elevate, an arts activity programme for patients at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. I teach Dance for Parkinson's class and creative dance classes for people living with dementia.
Job Title: Celebrating Age Development Co-ordinator
Organisation: Wiltshire Music Centre
Email: rebecca.seymour@wiltshiremusic.org.uk
Description: Developing high quality arts events and activity for older people in Wiltshire through the Celebrating Age programme
Job Title: Freelance Education Consultant
Organisation: Autumn Gold Education
Email: rhonda@riachi.free-online.co.uk
Description: I promote better care in later life and support those caring for someone with dementia through training and resources. Autumn Gold Education helps learners help themselves and supports a network of interdependent caring people.
Job Title: Dance Movt Psychotherapist
Organisation: Movement Matters
Email: richardcoaten@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Provision of movement and dance based work with a focus on people with dementia and their carers
Job Title: Project and Arts In Health Manager
Organisation: Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies
Email: richardmole@bcat.info
Description: BCAT is a registered charity which was set up in 1993 to provide an accessible arts therapies, and arts in health service throughout the Midlands. We assist children and adults who are experiencing mental health, physical, behavioural or emotional issues.
Job Title: Age Allies Programme Officer
Organisation: Age UK London
Email: rnorman@ageuklondon.org.uk
Description: The Age Allies Programme works with older Londoners to provide free age awareness workshops to organisations across London.
Job Title: Lead toryteller
Organisation: Richard O'Neill Storytelling
Email: rroneill@aol.com
Description: I deliver bespoke storytelling projects and one off sessions. I deliver storytelling training sessions for professionals and volunteers. I'm a professional speaker the many applications and benefits of storytelling.
Job Title: wellbeing activities coordinator
Organisation: coming on my own name
Email: ritacapela11@gmail.com
Description: Art through activities for the elderly and people with dementia and Alzheimer.
Job Title: Head of Business Development
Organisation: Creative Plus
Email: r.pleasant@creative-plus.co.uk
Description: We have developed a video based project called The Home Made Club which is designed to improve the quality and quantity of craft based workshops for the elderly.
Job Title: Freelance Writer
Organisation: Freelance Writer
Email: robin@robindynes.co.uk
Description: Freelance writer providing materials to support professionals, carers and family members. I am particularly interested in promoting creativity to support the wellbeing of older people.
Job Title: Choir leader
Organisation: Freelance
Email: topazsinging@gmail.com
Description: Vocal entertainer singing vintage pop and jazz material. Choir leader for Care homes and day centres.
Job Title: Psychotherapist
Organisation: Rosalind Arden
Email: rosalindarden@icloud.com
Description: Student on MA Dance and Somatic Wellbeing, UCLan. Psychotherapist, university lecturer (retired).
Job Title: Arts Development Officer
Organisation: 1Life
Email: r.l.gooding@hotmail.co.uk
Description: I work with St Albans District council to devise and deliver arts events for the community including activities for the elderly and people with mental health issues.
Job Title: Project Assistant
Organisation: Possability People
Email: roxy@possabilitypeople.org.uk
Description: We connect cross sector organisations in Brighton and Hove to prevent social isolation in later life.
Job Title: Social Media Officer
Organisation: Royal Voluntary Service
Email: christian.lampe@royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk
Description: If you are part of a choir, then you can make a difference for lonely older people by signing up to Sing Your Heart Out
Job Title: Creative producer
Organisation: Saith
Email: rozmoreton@mac.com
Description: Producing creative events for community engagement
Job Title: Arts Coordinator
Organisation: Artlink at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: ruth.charity@ouh.nhs.uk
Description: I run a music and arts programme for the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton hospitals. It aims to improve the hospital environment and engage patients with the arts to improve their health and wellbeing.
Job Title: Managing Director
Organisation: Make it Better (Mitber) CIC
Email: contact@ruthpurdy.co.uk
Description: Supporting communities to live well through the Arts.
Job Title: Postgraduate Research Officer
Organisation: Coventry university
Email: nafiss2@uni.coventry.ac.uk
Description: Early career researcher working on a project, Evaluation of Digital Health and Well-being App in Real-Life Settings
Job Title: Marketing
Organisation: Busy Parents Network
Email: sala@busyparentsnetwork.com
Description: We're a not-for-profit CIC which organises fun family festivals, including Bournville BookFest and The Big Draw events.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Holme Valley Sharing Memories
Email: sally-brown@btconnect.com
Description: Sharing Memories is a group of older people, in their 80s and 90s who meet every week to share memories and life experiences and learn new art skills which we share with other community groups of all ages.
Job Title: Community Participation Officer
Organisation: Mansfield Museum
Email: sevans@mansfield.gov.uk
Description: Mansfield Museum is a local authority venue in Mansfield which offers a year round program of events and exhibitions.
Job Title: Head of Product Development
Organisation: Brighterkind
Email: sally.harrison@brighterkind.com
Description: Heading up the Recreation and Activity programme at brighterkind - constantly looking to develop our Magic Moments programme in order to support our residents and team members to enjoy every day
Job Title: Chair
Organisation: Jacobs Wells Community Hub
Email: jwrhub@gmail.com
Description: our is to establish- reduce social isolation - enhance well being. run Craft Hub / Tai Chi -
Job Title: Media and Communications Officer
Organisation: soundLINCS
Email: sam@soundlincs.org
Description: soundLINCS is a not-for-profit community music organisation. Working in partnership with local, regional and national organisations, soundLINCS provides and develops high quality, innovative music-making opportunities and training for all.
Job Title: composer and musician
Organisation: Freelance
Email: samglazer25@yahoo.co.uk
Description: I'm a creative music leader and composer facilitating group work with people of all ages, including people living with dementia.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Purple Gecko
Email: purplegecko@outlook.com
Description: Dance based exercise classes for over fifties Movement and dance for health
Job Title: Locality Officer
Organisation: Breckland Council
Email: Samantha.patel@breckland.gov.uk
Description: Silver Social - a 3 year arts programme targeted at older isolated people in Breckland, Norfolk. Live performances and workshops will tour ten towns / villages. Funded by Arts Council.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Samara Jones-Hall
Email: samara.joneshall@gmail.com
Description: Digital and Creative Consultancy
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Safe Ageing No Discrimination
Email: lgbtsand@gmail.com
Description: We work with and for older and old lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans people to improve their experience of health & social care
Job Title: Ageing Well Health Improvement Advisor
Organisation: Cheshire West and Chester Council
Email: sandie.williams@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Description: I am lead for Age-friendly Cheshire a collaborative bringing people together to make Cheshire West and Chester a great place to live and grow older for everyone.
Job Title: Communications manager
Organisation: The Arts Development Company
Email: sara@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk
Description: Communicating The Arts Development Company's work to wider audiences.
Job Title: Director of Development and Research
Organisation: St Monica Trust
Email: sara.naylor-wild@stmonicatrust.org.uk
Description: I lead a department within St Monica Trust responsible for researching and developing new initiatives for our customers and the community at large.
Job Title: Director's Assistant
Organisation: acta community theatre
Email: sara@acta-bristol.com
Description: I run a selection of the creative arts/theatre projects we provide for isolated and marginalized communities. I also work on fundraising.
Job Title: Producer/Artist
Organisation: The Hive Artspace
Email: sarafina.carter@gmail.com
Description: The Hive Artspace is a small developing neighbourhood arts centre in West Wiltshire with an emphasis on inclusivity and highly musical and visual sensory arts.
Job Title: dance therapist
Organisation: movement changes life
Email: sarahboreham85@hotmail.com
Description: I provide dance movement therapy groups for health and well being and social health for elderly and groups that are sometimes excluded
Job Title: General Manager
Organisation: Venue Cymru & Theatr Colwyn
Email: sarah.ecob@venuecymru.co.uk
Description: Venue Cymru is a theatre and conference centre; Theatr Colwyn is a theatre, cinema & photographic hub. Work for older people includes dementia friendly screenings, textile art project, photography group and a range of smaller arts projects
Job Title: Mature Student
Organisation: Manchester University
Email: sarah.faulkner7@btinternet.com
Description: I am a mature drama student with 30 years experience of working in the NHS. Research interest is the potential for drama to challenge age stereotypes and enhance the lives of older people.
Job Title: Arts Development Manager
Organisation: Gwent Arts in Health
Email: sarah.goodey@wales.nhs.uk
Description: I am an artist and professional project manager, supporting creative projects in healthcare environments in and around the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
Job Title: Creative Learning Manager
Organisation: Manchester International Festival
Email: sarah.hiscock@mif.co.uk
Description: Manchester International Festival is the world's first festival of original, new work and takes place biennially in Manchester.
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Theatre Sans Frontieres
Email: sarah@tsf.org.uk
Description: Drama facilitator, actor, director with multilingual, international touring theatre company. Just started PhD at Northumbria University on impact of Drama interventions with older people.
Job Title: Facilitator
Organisation: Sarah McNicol
Email: sarahmcnicol@zoho.com
Description: I use a variety of arts practices to help people to explore and share their life stories and community stories.
Job Title: Activity Coordinator
Organisation: Cartlidge house
Email: mustansera.asif@accordgroup.org.uk
Description: I work at Cartlidge house residential care home as the Activity coordinator.
Job Title: Learning & Engagement Officer
Organisation: Lakeland Arts
Email: squigley@lakelandarts.org.uk
Description: Lakeland Arts runs a weekly art group for people living with dementia and their carers. Participants enjoy time together working with artists and being creative.
Job Title: Manager
Organisation: Creating Conversations
Email: sharon@creating-conversations.org
Description: An activity kit that has been carefully designed to transform the care environment into a stimulating social space, allowing participants to be involved from the outset in a way that feels comfortable to them.
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: The Grange Throckley
Email: sharon@isisarts.org.uk
Description: Grange is a day care centre that was set up by the local community and that offers elders a wide range of creative activities with professional artists. We do this to support elders to remain independent in their own homes and to combat social isolation.
Job Title: Owner & Workshop Facilitator
Organisation: Puppeteria
Email: shelley@puppeteria.ca
Description: I teach others how to use puppets as a tool for building relationships through storytelling, enhanced communication, and creative problem-solving.
Job Title: Researcher
Organisation: University of Gloucestershire
Email: s0510427@connect.glos.ac.uk
Description: I am researching the 'performance' possibilities of providing art/crafts with people who were not born in the UK, i.e., immigrants, refugees.
Job Title: Teacher
Organisation: self employed
Email: shirleymead@hotmail.com
Description: Creating wall hangings, eggs, bunting and Christmas decorations using needle felting. This simple and portable craft is accessible for most people and the vibrant coloured wools available bring joy to whoever uses them.
Job Title: Service Development Assistant
Organisation: Hanover
Email: shona.martin@hanover.org.uk
Description: I work with residents and front line staff nationally to improve residents wellbeing and create a welcoming sense of community on our estates.
Job Title: Manager of Inspiration and Inclusion
Organisation: Ladder to the Moon
Email: shulahawes@gmail.com
Description: Supporting care homes in being great places to live, work and visit
Job Title: Creative Director
Organisation: Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company
Email: infomovingmemory@gmail.com
Description: We use a collaborative workshop process to produce moving and meaningful performances with a highly visual and physical aesthetic. There is strong use of movement, words, music and projections to tell stories and entertain.
Job Title: Centre Manager
Organisation: Age UK Medway
Email: simonbaker@ageukmedway.org.uk
Description: Managing centre which houses a mainstream day centre, dementia day care centre and several support services for older people
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Double Elephant Print Workshop
Email: simon@simonripley.co.uk
Description: I am an artist printmaker working in a wide range of settings across the South West with all ages and abilities. I have a particular interest in working with older people
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Counterpoint Dance Company
Email: simona@simonascotto.com
Description: Simona Scotto Director of Counterpoint Dance Company. Educator, choreographer, producer of dance work for the over 55's.
Job Title: Head of Lifestyle and Innovation
Organisation: Excelcare
Email: simone.bullen@excelcareholdings.com
Description: As Head of Lifestyle and Innovation I support the continued development of care systems, processes and practice across the group
Job Title: CEO
Organisation: Settle Stories Ltd.
Email: sita@settlestories.org.uk
Description: We collaborate with communities and artists to create transformative experiences that ignite curiosity and reimagine storytelling. Our programme includes a flagship festival, year round events and learning programme.
Job Title: PhD candidate
Organisation: QCA Griffith University
Email: sonia.york-pryce@griffithuni.edu.au
Description: Sonia is an English mature dancer filmmaker PhD candidate: Ageism and the mature dancer based in Australia. The research documents older professional dancers globally still performing. Her aim is to give validation and visibility to the mature dancer.
Job Title: Silver Social Project Coordinator
Organisation: Breckland Council
Email: sophie.soto@breckland.gov.uk
Description: Taking the arts to isolated elderly people in the Breckland area and those at risk of isolation.
Job Title: Co Director
Organisation: Moving Together
Email: Info@movingtogether.co.uk
Description: Community dance company based in Leicester. We work with main stream and SEN schools, home educated children, over 55s and care homes.
Job Title: Director
Organisation: Fisher Arts and Social Club
Email: sophiemakesspaces@gmail.com
Description: Weekly arts and social club for older people and their carers. We connect people with local artists and engage in different activities every week.
Job Title: Community Arts Officer
Organisation: Staffordshire County Council
Email: tracie.meredith@staffordshire.gov.uk
Description: Staffordshire Libraries & Arts Service deliver an Arts offer to Staffordshire communities to widen participation in culture and creativity.
Job Title: Practitioner
Organisation: Creative Pathworking
Email: stefaniel2001@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Currently retraining in therapeutic writing methods
Job Title: Director
Organisation: That Creative Thingy Wotsit cic
Email: thatcreativethingywotsit@outlook.com
Description: We are an arts organisation who take theatre, artists & shows into residential care homes. We also train creative artists and care staff in the application of person-centered creative care
Job Title: Locality Officer
Organisation: Breckland Council
Email: stevie.spencer@breckland.gov.uk
Description: The Silver Social is an exciting new programme of daytime arts events in Breckland, promoting engagement and participation among older people in rural communities.
Job Title: Knowledge Exchange Manager - Creative Futures
Organisation: University of Brighton
Email: s.hedley@brighton.ac.uk
Description: Supporting Creative Practice Research, Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Brighton
Job Title: Self-Employed
Organisation: Private Practice
Email: smc223@hotmail.co.uk
Description: Susan is an art therapist in private practice. Susan would like to set up an open arts studio for people affected by disability and illness. I completed my PhD in December 2015 and am Co-Editor of the International Journal of Art Therapy.
Job Title: Artistic Director/Manager
Organisation: Jordan & Present Co.
Email: susan@jordanandpc.co.nz
Description: Created SeniorsDANCE classes for 65+ as teacher, manager, trainer of others. Also SeniorsDANCE Company, choreographer, manager, producer for community dancers.
Job Title: Aspire Project Coordinator
Organisation: Aspire, Huddersfield
Email: aspire@stjohnsbirkby.org.uk
Description: I coordinate creative community groups for older adults to reduce social isolation in Huddersfield.
Job Title: Dance artist - health & wellbeing
Organisation: Susie Tate
Email: susietate8@gmail.com
Description: I develop and deliver dance and movement programmes in hospitals and health care environments.
Job Title: Project Administrator & Events Co-Ordinator
Organisation: MICRA (University of Manchester)
Email: suzanne.booth@manchester.ac.uk
Description: Ageing research and events
Job Title: volunteer
Organisation: age uk
Email: suedoessmart@live.co.uk
Description: I work voluntary in the dementia suite at AGE UK 4 days a week and on a thursay I run the COGS group
Job Title: Executive Director
Organisation: NAPA
Email: sylvie@napa-activities.co.uk
Description: National charity that supports activity provision in care settings
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: Graffite Art
Email: info@graffitetech.com
Description: I am a working Artist, Ceramics painter and Managing Director of Graffite Ltd Electronics design consultancy
Job Title: Director of intergenerational activities
Organisation: Weston Super Rocks
Email: tania_b_creative@hotmail.com
Description: Creatively engaging activities for all ages & abilities. Our intergenerational workshops help to connect local schools and youth groups with residential care homes in North Somerset
Job Title: Artistic Director
Organisation: Fat Lady Opera
Email: fatladyopera@gmail.com
Description: Making opera, theatre and live music activities more accessible
Job Title: Scheme Manager
Organisation: MHA Selly Oak Live at Home
Email: tanya.jones@mha.org.uk
Description: We support older people to remain socially connected with their local community in order to reduce the potential for loneliness and social isolation
Job Title: Arts Development Officer
Organisation: Woking Borough Council
Email: tara.stevenson@woking.gov.uk
Description: Arts, Community, Development
Job Title: Arts Partnership Assistant
Organisation: Age of Creativity
Email: teiwilliams@ageofcreativity.co.uk
Description: My responsiblities include the marketing of the Age of Creativity, fulfilling its social media strategy and answering your queries.
Job Title: CIC
Organisation: The Arts Development Company
Email: jo@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk
Description: Working together for creative change.
Job Title: THE ELIXIR CLINIC
Organisation: THE ELIXIR CLINIC
Email: theelixirclinic1@gmail.com
Description: In the recent years, a vitamin drip that is known as the Myers Cocktail has become the trendiest health craze and all for good reasons.
Job Title: Knitting & Crochet
Organisation: HCS
Email: bridgeth@harrisconsultancy.biz
Description: We are a community group made up of neighbours who get together to build community and create warm items of clothing for homeless people and their pets.
Job Title: Visual Artist
Organisation: Freelance
Email: tinasmith_777@yahoo.co.uk
Description: Arts facilitator for community groups in South London
Job Title: N/A
Organisation: N/A
Email: tiurlansitompul@gmail.com
Description: Volunteer in arts and crafts for older people. Community actors
Job Title: Film Audience Network Access Officer
Organisation: BFI
Email: toki@filmhubwales.org
Description: The aim of my role is to increase access to cinema for hard-to-reach audiences.
Job Title: Project Manager
Organisation: Manchester City Council
Email: t.annette@manchester.gov.uk
Description: Working with a broard range of partners to make Manchester a great place to grow older
Job Title: Community Artist
Organisation: Creative Minds
Email: Tracey.knight@gmail.com
Description: Creative Minds is a social enterprise and community of artists nationwide who provide fun art sessions to care homes and other venues.
Job Title: Singing and Project leader
Organisation: Music In Our Bones
Email: tracy.sharp43@ntlworld.com
Description: We have established over the last 18 months a singing community for people with dementia and their families
Job Title: Library Development Officer
Organisation: Halton Libraries
Email: trudy.jones@halton.gov.uk
Description: As Library Outreach, I go into care homes and talk to older people's groups about what the library service can offer and also do reminiscence sessions using our memory boxes and other library resources
Job Title: General Manager
Organisation: Upswing
Email: info@upswing.org.uk
Description: Upswing is a contemporary circus company. Our work combines high profile national &international touring shows with a programme of innovative community participation.
Job Title: Franchisee and session facilitator
Organisation: Musical Moments Stoke, Crewe and Nantwich
Email: stoke@musical-moments.co.uk
Description: Delivering interactive music sessions for the elderly and those with special needs.
Job Title: Marketing & Publicity Director
Organisation: The Really Youthful Theatre Company
Email: victoria@rytc.co.uk
Description: We are committed to enabling people of all ages and abilities to discover their passion for the performing arts and in helping them to bring out the best of their talents.
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: Arts Health Associates
Email: info@artshealthassociates.com
Description: Arts Health Associates is an arts health consultancy, providing international, specialist arts health knowledge and experience of both art commissioning and participatory creative programs.
Job Title: Artist
Organisation: Self Employed
Email: vmcquo@gmail.com
Description: Photography, collage and photo manipulation/ Digital artwork.
Job Title: Embodiment and Space Holder
Organisation: Authentic Relating
Email: a.relating@gmail.com
Description: We hold safe spaces for people to be authentic and impart embodiment practices. We focus on collaborative efforts with others to inspire positive changes in the world.
Job Title: Outreach & Advocacy Director
Organisation: Alive Inside Foundation
Email: wm@aliveinside.org
Description: Activist / Advocate for Dementia / Age - Friendliness on a Global Scale
Job Title: Founder
Organisation: NZCreativity
Email: waynemorriscreates@gmail.com
Description: focus on creativity - objects, consultancy and workshops. Artist and percussionist
Job Title: Head of Young People and Outreach
Organisation: Marina Theatre
Email: willisgrove@marinatheatre.co.uk
Description: Responsible for developing and delivering the theatre's outreach and community programs.
Job Title: Digital Learning Manager
Organisation: Royal Institute of British Architects
Email: wilson.yau@riba.org
Description: Promote social and digital inclusion for older learners, and support the use and exploration of architecture and the RIBA's collections for learning and enjoyment.
Job Title: Marketing & Communications Manager
Organisation: Yorkshire Dance
Email: antonydunn@yorkshiredance.com
Description: Dance development organisation for the Yorkshire region, with a specific - and growing - strand of work with older adults
