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This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
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Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
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A Space Between is a non-profit organisation working with Hospitals, GP Clinics and Community Centres to address isolation, loneliness and anxiety of patients, healthcare staff and vulnerable groups, through accessible, free, therapeutic art programmes. In the last financial year, we: - Delivered 3,000 uniquely co-designed therapeutic professionally printed booklets, delivered in bags as Creative Care Packs (our creative care packs consist in a blend of co-created colouring-in drawings; mindfulness art activities designed by a monthly artist in residence and celebrity creative contributions + carefully selected art material, delivered in a bespoke designed slim hospital friendly box or light tote bag) to The Royal Marsden Hospital (both Chelsea and Sutton sites); Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust; St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit; Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust; County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust; University College Hospital; Wellington Hospital; HCA Guys Cancer Centre; Harley Street Oncology Clinic; Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. - Ran 78 art therapeutic workshops at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital; Future Dreams House for women living with Breast Cancer (in King’s Cross, London); and St Paul’s Way NHS GP Clinic in Tower Hamlets, London. - Were commissioned to fully redecorate the Women’s Health Clinic waiting room at Whittington Hospital, in London, after a recently passed away patient wrote a letter to her oncologist begging for the team to make the waiting room a brighter, more calming space. We worked closely with the clinical team, came up with a creative proposal to meet the needs (and budget); brought in one of our resident artists to create two murals and ran one of our workshops with the clinical staff in order to frame the artworks created by the staff onto the third wall. The room is now complete and looks utterly beautiful. Feedback from our session with the nurses and doctors included: “Thank you for helping to create an amazing core memory for me. This session helped to highlight trusting the process of life. You are creating experiences which staff and patients can value for years to come” “It was amazing! Everyone was involved, engaged and had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon from initial apprehension to all feeling like artists now!” Overall, our activities in the past year have benefitted the communities we reach by: - Addressing the mental wellbeing of hospital patients and healthcare professionals through our uniquely designed art programmes. - Widening our reach into isolated community groups & outpatient units beyond hospital walls - Creating spaces for isolated communities to come together either physically or through the shared medium of art - Building our youth educational programme, aimed to cultivate creativity as a pillar of wellbeing and encourage young people to think philanthropically through art.
Our stakeholders are the hospitals and community centres we work with. We have monthly catch up/feedback calls with each hospital and community centre to which we deliver. During these calls we get a breakdown of how our resources benefitted the hospitals and community centres (which wards/units/staff rooms) and we are given a chance to adapt any materials to continually ensure that our programmes best meet the needs of the spaces they reach. We listen to our participants and deliver workshop content based on their fine motor and cognitive skill limitations in order to always ensure our materials are widely accessible and calming (rather than stressful and difficult). A few feedback mentions: “We have literally had your packs on every type of ward: Frailty, coronary care, stroke rehab, maternity, cancer, children’s wards (more in the teens), out in the community for the lonely and isolated, in outpatients, in A&E, in our eye clinics (yes even low vision can see the bold lines particularly and can manage the colours), also in our staff rooms – and they have been shared across 8 hospitals in County Durham & Darlington so the impact is massive.” (Pat Chambers, lead charity coordinator at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) // “the impact through A Space Between’s work at St Paul’s Way has been tremendous. What ASB has managed to put together was fully missing at St Paul’s Way. It offers a place to escape their health and societal issues. ASB has given our community a designated regular spot to connect and relax. ASB offers holistic health in a bottle” (Abdul Shaque, lead coordinator for Population Health at St Paul’s Way GP Clinic, Tower Hamlets, London)
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
22 October 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Emily Halban
Status: Director