Resources tagged with creativity



Overhead photo of a workshop table during a live graphic recording session by Buttercrumble. A large in-progress illustrated map of the Midlands sits in the centre, with hand-drawn outlines and photos taped on marking museum locations, including Bassetlaw Museum, Tamworth Castle, Pen Museum, Selly Manor Museum, and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. An illustrator works on a drawing tablet in the bottom left, sketching part of the map. Around the table, participants' hands hold pens as they annotate printed worksheets with reflective questions about museums and communities. The table is scattered with workshop materials — pens, scissors, glue sticks, notebooks, a flask, phones, and a packet of shortbread biscuits. The Museum Development Midlands logo is visible on the printed map

Creating a sense of place: using creative facilitation and visual notetaking with Museum Development Midlands.

Creative studio Buttercrumble worked with Museum Development Midlands to close out its Sense of Place Programme, using creative facilitation and visual notetaking to capture the region’s museum impact. Through a co-produced memory map, practitioners reflected on their communities’ past, present and future, turning intangible themes into something visible and memorable. The session created space for … Read more

2026 set out as 'cats eyes' on a blurry cityscape highway

Shaping 2026. What the sector is really talking about and why it matters

Sarah Bagg, founder of ReWork Consulting, brings a unique vantage point to sector challenges, working across attractions, arts venues and heritage sites to reshape their digital and operational strategies. Known for her ability to translate between technology providers and cultural organisations, Sarah offers both strategic clarity and practical wisdom. In this thoughtful analysis drawn from … Read more

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Productivity methods and tools that make space for creativity

Ticketsolve challenges the commonly held idea that productivity is about doing as much as possible in as little time as possible – and that as result, that it’s at odds with creativity. They say that instead, productivity is about making space for what matters most. Find out how they do it.  

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Video: Everyday creativity

Through examining evidence from the latest wave of Cultural Participation Monitor data, this recorded session from The Audience Agency takes a look at the creative activities people do independently, such as playing an instrument, podcasting, flower arranging, drag, creative gaming, graffiti and much more. 

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My essential reads: pleasure, play and connection in everyday creativity

There has been a recent rise in interest in everyday creativity. This has ranged from people trying out new creative activities like sewing or baking during lockdowns to knowledge workers (that is, those using computers for their jobs) wanting to do something with their hands for a change. I’m currently working on a PhD investigating … Read more

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Evaluation: Creative Civic Change

Creative Civic Change was an experimental funding programme that supported 15 communities to shape, lead, and commission creative interventions to make positive change where they lived. An evaluation by one of the programme’s four funders, Local Trust.

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Creatively Minded and the NHS

An overview of participatory arts offered by the NHS to people with mental health problems – featuring NHS Trusts across the UK which offer a range of creative artist-led programmes in both primary and secondary care.

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Love in a cold climate: Creative ageing in Finland

How is Finland approaching the creative and cultural rights of and provision for older people? A series of case studies and reflections aimed at practitioners, policy makers and funders anywhere in the world with an interest in creative ageing.

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Creatively Minded: The Directory

A directory of organisations working in the field of arts and mental health in the UK containing around 320 organisations identified as part of research conducted for Baring Foundation‘s Arts and Mental Health funding programme.