A return to normality gets closer as the UK relaxes it’s COVID regulations, mostly due to the enormous success of the vaccination programme. As a result, we are now operating the majority of our workshops again with little restriction, whilst maintaining sensible precautions against transmission of the virus. A huge thank you to all our Art Tutors, clients and operations team for working under difficult conditions whilst the restrictions were in place.

Although we have lost a few Charity Art Centres over the last year, we are as busy as ever in the 10 buildings where we are currently operating and the quality of artwork, drama and the musical work produced is up to its usual unbelievable standards, which is a great reflection on our team of tutor’s throughout the UK – our thanks to you all. Our clients love the sessions as much as ever which is immensely rewarding for all involved.

We continue to sponsor the Riding for the Disabled National Arts Competition and our “Big Project” this year was to fund an exhibition of photographs at We The Curious in Bristol.

While young people were bringing some of the strongest voices to COP-26 in Glasgow, We The Curious launched a call-out for photographs in response to the theme ‘This Can Change’. Young people around Bristol responded with images of the environment they saw around them. From the littered docks to the autumn woodland, the resulting exhibition shows a still-new-to-the-world perspective of our city: what grows, lives, what we discard, as well as artistic ideas to inspire change in the way we treat the world.