About this theme
This theme covers topics relating to achieving positive change and resilience for UK communities of all kinds through engagement with arts, culture and creative practices. It is one of our current programmes for Fellowships, launched in 2023, and has been developed in consultation with our Arts and Culture working group. Fellows’ stories
Fellows' updates April 2025 Fellows' update: Angela Samata
Angela Samata (CF 2017) has co-authored RESTORATION: Health and Wellbeing, a set of trauma-informed guidelines for museum and gallery staff, in collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery.
By Angela Samata, 2025
Fellows' updates March 2025 Fellows' update: Zoe Gilbertson
Zoe Gilbertson (CF 2023) has been featured in a BBC article about a new pilot project addressing textile waste in Highland schools.
By Zoe Gilbertson, 2025
Report Bridging Past and Present: How Historic Places and Creative Spaces Fuel Community Connection
By Jessica Ihejetoh, 2023
Fellows' updates February 2025 Fellows' update: Alison O'Connor
Alison O'Connor (CF 2016) hosted the webinar Creative Approaches to Recovery and Repair After Moral Injury: Life Story Theatre and Collective Narratives at the International Centre for Moral Injury.
By Alison O'Connor, 2025
Fellows' updates November 2024 Fellows' update: David Stanley
Disability campaigner and Founder and CEO of the Music Man Project, David Stanley (CF 2019), saw his organisation receive the 2024 King’s Award for Voluntary Service.
By David Stanley, 2024
Report How to tell a story about peace-building
By Cian Smyth, 2023
Fellows' updates November 2024 Fellows' update: Alison Mackenzie
Alison Mackenzie (CF 2014) has earned a nomination for Venue of the Year at the Scots Trad Awards for Croy Live, the rural venue she founded to bring traditional music to a small community hall.
By Alison Mackenzie, 2024
Fellows' updates October 2024 Fellows' update: Judith Vickress
Judith Vickress is starting a new position as Trustee at charity Rural Media.
By Judith Vickress, 2024
Fellows' updates October 2024 Fellows' update: Tony Thompson
Tony Thompson (CF 2012) hosted a screening of TURNING POINT at London’s Riverside Studios on 19th October, featuring four short stories from Barbados and Jamaica in 1920, followed by a Q&A session he led as the writer and director. The touring programme will continue in London until the end of 2025.
By Tony Thompson, 2024
Fellows' updates October 2024 Fellows' update: Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Smith co-hosted the Recovery in Practice conference with Dr David Patton at the University of Derby and Teesside University, where they explored the power of lived experience, creative arts, and community-driven recovery.
By Dorothy Smith, 2024
