Our Work

The most Wuthering Heights day in Tynemouth!

'Home Thoughts' is an artist-led commission for our Creative Health programme Better Connect.

The voice of teens in the North East.

Make It Happen ran in Summer 2024.

Make It Happen took place in Westmoor in September 2024.

Take a look at what we got up to in Weetslade.

Make It Happen is happening in Whitley Bay!

Playful Pavements was a free community-led day for young people providing them the chance to play outside in a safe way.

Young people from Longbenton have chosen a series of creative activities to give a go in 2025! Now throughout January, February and March 11-19 year olds can try something new and exciting.

Make It Happen is a community development programme for residents in North Tyneside funded by UK SPF.

Young people from Blakelaw worked with local artists to put together an alternative panto for their local community.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Cultural Quarter for creatives living and/ or working in North Tyneside.

Artists’ Agency Newcastle is an artist development programme in Creative Central: NCL

Artists’ Agency Newcastle is an artist development programme in Creative Central: NCL

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

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

A creative programme for Parent Carers across North Tyneside.

Part of Better Connect.

Celebrate Different was a Make it Happen project for young people in Sunderland in partnership with Sunderland Culture.

Partnering with Perigrini Landscape Partnership, Make Art Happen participants developed a project to help raise awareness, take part in conservation and celebrate Lindisfarne island.

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.

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 digital music-making programme with young people in South East Northumberland.

Telling Tales was developed by a volunteer project team which was born from a capacity building programme “Make Art Happen.”

Participants of Make Art Happen from Bill Quay Farm aimed to create a visual arts project for the local community.

Since 2015, Residents from Newbiggin by the Sea have been working with Northumberland based visual artists to design and make a range of creative products.

A training programme for community and voluntary organisations who want to produce their own arts residencies or festivals.