Have a look at our current and recent work. Our archives will gradually be shared and we would love to receive anything you may have for that.
Transition Chronicles is a creative health project using cross artform approaches. This project is designed to support Year 5 and 6 pupils as they prepare for the transition to secondary school.
Free Creative Care Day for Artists.
Take a look at what we got up to during our Winter Wellbeing workshops.
Better Connect: Young Carers is a pilot project working with young people from across the borough.
Check out our over 18's Creative Wellbeing Workshops for Better Connect.
Check out our digital family workshops.
Check out our over 18's Better Connect workshops for men living in the North West of the borough.
Check out some of our highlights from Better Connect in 2024_25.
Check out some of our highlights from Better Connect in 2025_26.
#Never 2 is a drugs insight project in North Tyneside.
On 1st December 2024, the community came together for a vibrant day of artistic exploration and archive sharing, alongside meaningful conversations.
'Home Thoughts' is an artist-led commission for our Creative Health programme Better Connect.
Check out our Here to There Programme in South Tyneside.
Check out our Here to There Programme in Sunderland.
Here to There workshops in North Tyneside.
A creative health project led by Northumbria University to help create futures beyond homelessness, and tackle homelessness stigma.
Do you want to get moving, dance and have the opportunity to meet new people?
Come and try Falling on Your Feet Segedunum.
Young people enjoyed a summer of creative workshops.
Young people from Blakelaw worked with local artists to put together an alternative panto for their local community.
Celebrating 40 years of Helix Arts working with artists and communities!
Share your story | Shape our future.
Working with National Trust Gibside and celebrating the Festival of Blossom
We worked with young people across North Tyneside to learn about their thoughts and experiences about drug use and abuse.
Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.
HeArt of Care took the conversations about care away from the hidden rooms of domestic settings and place them at the heart of our public spaces.
Here To There is an exciting programme of cultural experiences and events for people aged 55+, including wellbeing walks, visits to museums, exhibitions, theatres, dance performances, and buildings and places with interesting histories.
An artist consulted residents in North Tyneside about the local authority Equally Well Health and Inequalities plan with some member of the North Tyneside Leaders Together group.
Take a look at some of the amazing stories from North Tyneside community members generated from their experiences during the pandemic.
Kelsey worked with Helix Arts as part of her master's degree in Dance Science and Education at Edinburgh University. Kelsey guided various groups across North Tyneside to develop their arts practice as dancers.
This event was held to listen to personal stories of those living through a pandemic from a diverse cross-section of residents from North Tyneside.
By Your Side at North Tyneside Art Studio was a creative programme for North Tyneside carers.
The HeArt of Care is a global project with the aim of uniting carers from across the world and encourage them to share their experiences as carers through a creative medium. It forms part of our social prescribing programme, Better Connect.
A multi-arts project with young adults working to create a new wellbeing trail in Chopwell Wood.
Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.
Part of Better Connect
Sharing stories and experiences through creative sessions. Working with families who share a caring role in looking after loved ones who depend on them. Part of Better Connect
Falling On Your Feet North Tyneside allowed local carers who enjoyed dancing to meet new people and stay active.
Part of Better Connect.
Summer of Fun was a great way for children and young people from Wallsend and Howden to spend their holidays.
We worked with artists to offer a wide variety of artforms at different sites around the area.
A creative programme for Parent Carers across North Tyneside.
A mindful space to make creative journals and explore lots of basic art, print, crafts, making and collage.
A social prescribing project aimed at connecting 350 young and adult carers with arts and culture to transform experiences after COVID-19.
Better Connect supports the wellbeing of residents living in North Tyneside, and encourages connection through creativity.
Writers who care was a Make It Happen Commission project by artist Liv Hunt.
A pilot programme of arts activities designed to promote wellbeing and resilience for residents in North Tyneside suffering from poor mental health.
The Tyneside and Northumberland Mind team worked to provide a programme of high quality participatory arts activities to promote wellbeing and resilience in residents of South Tyneside aged 18 or over.
"Re-Wild Yourself" - a collaborative project between members of WHIST and SANGINI who took part in the Make Art Happen training programme.
Students from Josephine Butler College took part in two Make Art Happen cohorts between 2017 and 2018.
Bensham and Teams Make Art Happen project created a visual and sound artwork made up of multiple components created by a local people that enhanced a community space for local residents to enjoy and feel a sense of pride in.
A result of a Make Arts Happen, “Create, Stay and Play” was open to all ages and encouraged the development of social skills, an interest in the arts, health and wellbeing and community spirit.
A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.
Dancing your way to new friendships in your neighbourhood and beyond.
A dance and health programme, co-curated with people aged 65+ who are living independently.
Falling On Your feet is a dance programme targeting people aged 55+ aiming to encourage staying active and meeting new people
Telling Tales was developed by a volunteer project team which was born from a capacity building programme “Make Art Happen.”
A training programme for community and voluntary organisations who want to produce their own arts residencies or festivals.