Creative Voices Collective will be a yearlong community project in Lambeth around mental health, the creative arts and community change. It started as a pilot project that was able to happen due to the generous people who helped us reach our target of £2000! Thank you to each of you who donated!

Due to the success of our pilot, we are now applying to the Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant to gain £30k to turn Creative Voices Collective into a year-long project in Lambeth. As part of this bid, we are required to already have £3000 as 10% match funding and are therefore expanding our GoFundMe target to £5000 to obtain the £3000 match funding!

It will start in January 2023 and entail going into charities and delivering a series of 9 weekly therapeutic and creative workshops for people who have suffered from their mental health. This is held by a creative therapist, with four guest professional artists coming in to deliver one-off workshops. At the end of the workshops, we exhibit the work created in local spaces to both celebrate the creative journey of the group and give them a platform to share their thoughts on mental health to evoke conversation and change.

We will give these workshops to 6 organisations/charities in Lambeth each ending in a small exhibition. At the end of the year, we will end in a larger interactive exhibition focusing on the work of the year and invite the community to reflect on arts and mental health.

Any contribution or share would be greatly appreciated!

Have a lovely day and we hope to see you along the way of this journey.

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