Midland Partnership Foundation Trust’s Arts for Health department wishes to remind people living in Stafford, Cannock and Shropshire of the next dates to meet for their Songs for You programme.

To celebrate Creativity and Wellbeing Week we present a week of piano music for service users and staff across the Trust.

Bryony Gordon is a columnist at The Telegraph and writes openly about her experiences with mental health issues

Books to help understand and manage health and wellbeing

Arts for Health were invited to attend the AESOP (Arts Enterprise for a Social Purpose) conference to present our Up tempo project.

For people with dementia and their family, friends and carers, sessions take place fortnightly at 2 - 3pm on Tuesdays.

Dr Jo Cannon worked as a Psychiatrist at George Bryan Centre and is a strong supporter of Reading for Wellbeing.

Arts for Health were asked to assist with implementing the new acoustic panels which were installed in October on Brocton Ward following a recommendation by the CQC. Some of the panels are plain white so as not to detract from existing artwork, while up in the atrium we drew inspiration from the beach scene collaged mural which was created by service users earlier in the year.

We had a wonderful celebration of the new Trust Art Exhibition on the 26th of October 2016. It was a lovely event with live music from Ash Wall and a great turnout from this year’s artists coming to see their work.

Arts For Health celebrated our tenth birthday in 2016! In July we held mini festivals on each of our three main sites...

This was a fantastic event on October 1st 2015 at the Learning Centre in Stafford, with representatives from around the region: clinicians, commissioners, artists, musicians, arts organisations, third sector organisations and service users and carers.