Wise Thoughts is a pioneering arts charity that combines creative use of diverse art forms such as film, visual art. performance and delivers targeted services to help address social justice issues and needs of Global Majority and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex + (LGBGTQI+) communities.
Wise Thoughts creates arts projects, develops, delivers training initiatives, and services that help to inform and raise awareness of issues related to cultural identity, ethnicity, physical and mental health, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and human rights. Each initiative is defined by the nature of each issue, the needs of target communities, available resources and uses diverse art forms, including South Asian arts.
The objectives of the charity are (extracted from the Memorandum and Articles of Association):
1. To promote principally issue-based Arts from marginalised communities for the benefit of the inhabitants of UK and elsewhere.
2. Developing public appreciation of Arts and by improving public access to, and the quality of the arts.
3. Promotion of HIV/AIDS issues through the medium of arts and in particular (but without prejudice to generality of the foregoing) the Company shall seek to bring forth issues related to HIV/AIDS and diverse sexual, cultural and ethnic identities through its creative expressions.
These objectives are achieved by implementing the following policies:
1. To improve standards of practice and appreciation of Arts through the development and delivery of arts projects and arts training that includes arts from marginalised communities.
2. To promote, advance, encourage and assist in the practice, presentation, and study of arts from marginalised communities.
3. To provide peer/social support, information, advice and guidance services for LGBTQI+ people.
4. To promote, advance, encourage and assist in the practice, presentation and study of arts from marginalised communities.
5. To bring forth issues related to HIV/AIDS and diverse sexual, cultural, and ethnic identities through the provision of information, guidance, outreach, and consultation services.
6. To bring together and co-operate the efforts of local authorities, bodies, organisations, societies, and individuals concerned or interested in attainment of all or any of the objects of the Charity.
7. To commission, arrange, prepare, print, publish, issue, and disseminate any programme, pamphlet, book, documents, film, recording or other artistic work and fix, make and receive fees, royalties, and other charges therefore and for admission to and otherwise in respect of any exhibition performance or display.