We are a small Essex based charity and we run art and craft sessions for our local community to help improve their mental health and well being.
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Who are we?
The Art Ministry was founded in 1992 and became a registered charity in 2005.
We are a small Essex based charity and we run art and craft sessions for our local community to help improve their mental health and well being.
Our regular creative sessions focus on people most likely to benefit from the opportunity of being involved in them, namely children and adults with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, visual impairments and/or mental health issues.
We extend our engagement with the community by working in partnership with other charities, schools, social housing schemes and local government to provide children, young people and adults.
We engage an even wider audience in creative activities at an average of 10 community events each year.
We are based in Hadleigh Essex and operate across south east Essex.
Community impact
We aim to involve members of the local community in creative activity to provide them with opportunities for increasing social interaction, boosting self confidence, improving self esteem and having fun to help maintain or improve the mental health and well being.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We are currently offering some of our creative sessions for free to the local community as part of our "Cosy Crafts" initiative - a warm space in which people can socialise while being creative.
We are seeking funding to be able to make more our creative sessions for free until the end of March. This means that we are waiving our usual session fee of £4.50 and increasing our session leader working hours so that they can pre-heat out art room to make it cosy from the start of each session.
How we’ll spend the money raised
We will be using any money raised to fund free creative sessions in a warm friendly environment and to extend session leader working hours until the end of March.