AIM (ARTISTS IN MIND)

Charity No:1098044
URL:http://www.everyclick.com/aim--artists-in-mind-/373470/0
Website:http://artists-in-mind.org.uk/index.html
Country:United Kingdom
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About AIM (ARTISTS IN MIND)

* aim harnesses the positive benefits of creativity to support people experiencing acute and enduring mental health problems. * aim provides studio spaces with support from practising artists * aim also initiates and manages creative projects in prisons, secure hospitals, forensic units and in the community.

Funds raised may be used to ...

* To support artists with acute and enduring mental health problems in the community and within psychiatric institutions, promoting the value of the creative process towards self-realization in the mentally ill individual. * To highlight the significance of the sharing of psychological insights and experiences through art; the benefit to the artist-patient in terms of identity and self-esteem, to the contemporary artist in terms of professional development, and to the wider community in gaining a deeper understanding of psychic processes. * To counter prejudice by challenging negative social perceptions of the mentally ill. * To offer opportunities in the form of creative and professional development for mental health sufferers both within and beyond the institution. * To support staff within psychiatric institutions in their own work as arts facilitators, developing active partnerships between arts organisations, psychiatric institutions and similar initiatives both nationally and internationally. * To initiate and engage in debate within the area of art and healing from the premise of the Artist, to publish within the field, and to offer the work of AIM as a premise for the research of such issues for both clinical and cultural use.

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AnonymousGive as you Live£21.493
Sandra MeadsGive as you Live£1.319
Matt HallettGive as you Live£0.010
AIM (Artists in MInd)Give as you Live£0.100
MARGARET INGHAMGive as you Live£6.640
stephanie inghamGive as you Live£0.010
deraj wilson aggarwalGive as you Live£0.490
Anonymousdonation£10.00£2.80
Anonymousdonation£5.00£1.40
     
     
     
     
     
     
Legal description

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE USE OF THE ARTS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO VISUAL, PERFORMING, ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDIA ARTS.

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