The Word Gallery is an online space for sharing creative writing by service users, staff carers and families of MPFT from the year 2020. Find out more including how to submit work, plus haiku and short story writing prompts, here.

Kits of resources have been distributed for trial on selected wards at Redwoods and St George's so that service users have access to painting and drawing materials.

Downloadable arts activity sheets can be found in the PDFs section at the bottom of this page.

We are developing an online ArtGallery for people to submit photographs of their artwork to while our usual Art Comp is on hold. 

Find out more on our Competitions page.

Our Songs for You participants are being invited to take part in Ring and Sing in lieu of our usual face-to-face singing sessions for those living well with dementia in Shropshire and Staffordshire. They will be contacted by telephone for a chat and a song!

We are working closely with our musical practitioners to explore possiblities of a mix of recorded content and live streamed sessions so that our inpatient service users can continue to experience the therapeutic benefits of music.

Well done to all our musicians who have contributed resources so far - links to their videos are available below.  

Ashley Wall  

Gillie Nicholls - oldies

Gillie Nicholls - golden oldies

Sal Tonge

Copies of poems and stories popular with in our usual face-to-face inpatient reading for wellbeing sessions have been delivered to key ward staff at St George's and Redwoods.

We are have plans in place to start live-streaming sessions to wards for socially distanced group sessions where appropriate.

Local artist Mark Uttley will support art sessions for older adult service users and staff on Baswich and Bromley wards at St George's. The groups will be creating artwork for the summer houses and pergola in the garden which is shared by the two wards.