insideKENT Magazine Issue 87 - June 2019 | Page 166

CHARITY
Art & Charity CONT.
NATIONAL YOUTH ARTS TRUST
National Youth Arts Trust
www.nationalyouthartstrust.org.uk
The National Youth Arts Trust offers bursaries for
dance classes, drama sc hool, music lessons, even
recall auditions ensuring tha t those w ho might
normally miss out on suc h e xcellent artistic
opportunities are able to take part.
The charity has also set up youth theatres and drama
projects in areas that are lacking in these facilities,
as well as taking children to the theatre on specially
organised trips – often for the very first time.
Equal Arts
www.equalarts.org.uk
Equal Arts is based in Ga teshead, Newcastle, but
works across the UK helping older people and those
living with dementia to achieve a more productive,
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happier life through the arts. They offer creative and
artistic opportunities to encourage wellbeing, and to
encourage people to try something new in an effort
to slow down the symptoms of dementia.
party parliamentary groups and academics to have
arts integrated in NHS England's Well Pathway for
Dementia.
Their mantra is: memor y ma y diminish b ut
imagination remains. Use their website to find artistic events near you that
will benefit those suffering from dementia. This will
open up a world that might have been closed before.
Arts 4 Dementia
www.arts4dementia.org.uk Shape Arts
www.shapearts.org.uk
Arts 4 Dementia is a UK charity, working with arts
venues to pr ovide training and de velop arts
programmes, empower and inspire people with early-
stage dementia and carers through artistic stimulation,
and help preserve fulfilling active life together, for
longer a t home . T he Ear ly-Stage Dementia
Awareness Training for Arts Organisations empowers
facilitators to deliv er ef fective, per son-centred
workshops. They work with national agencies, cross- Shape Arts’ main founding principle is the idea that
disabled people should have better access to arts and
culture. It therefore provides opportunities for disabled
artists as well as training cultural institutions across
the country to better understand the needs of – and
to be more open to – disabled people.