The Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies (BCAT) is a registered charity which was set up in 1993 to provide an accessible arts therapies, and more recently an arts in health service throughout the Midlands. We assist children and adults who are experiencing mental health, physical, behavioural or emotional issues with arts therapies, and we also work closely with our community partners across Birmingham to support the health and wellbeing of citizens using art, dance, drama, music and play.
The centre, a former Cadbury building, is unique in that it brings together art, drama, music, dance movement and play therapy.
BCAT are passionate about people and how arts therapies can be applied to aid mental health and physical issues, and how communities can also benefit therapeutically from arts in health intervention.
Being a pioneer and leader in establishing arts therapies as an alternative and complimentary intervention has been a goal for our charity for the past 25 years. We put people and communities in front of profit and are able to offer a number of subsidised services thanks to our generous funders and available grants.
The centre, a former Cadbury building, is unique in that it brings together art, drama, music, dance movement and play therapy.
BCAT are passionate about people and how arts therapies can be applied to aid mental health and physical issues, and how communities can also benefit therapeutically from arts in health intervention.
Being a pioneer and leader in establishing arts therapies as an alternative and complimentary intervention has been a goal for our charity for the past 25 years. We put people and communities in front of profit and are able to offer a number of subsidised services thanks to our generous funders and available grants.
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FREE FUNDED PROJECTS FOR 2020/21
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BCAT in the community
Check out the posters below to find out about local free arts in health workshops near you!
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BCAT's quarterly magazine contains all the latest BCAT news and features on arts therapy and
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Donate to BCAT
Shop and donate to BCAT!
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Text BCAT £1 to 70070 to support our POUND FOR ARTS campaign. You can donate up to £10.
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Make a donation, start your own fundraising. join our monthly BCAT Friends programme.
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Recycle your ink cartridges and raise money for BCAT
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Thank you to our supporters
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Research
Latest news on arts therapies and arts in health Art therapy and its effects on the Brain and Body Image Relationship, Art therapy and Body Image Connecting Mind and Body through DMT Body drama: the utilisation of drama therapy for the exploration and treatment of negative body image Dramatherapy for eating disorder treatment Music therapy enhances eating disorder treatments Supporting arts in health in libraries - evaluating BCAT's impact Can mindfulness Improve well-being in the workplace? Why should we fund arts therapy |
BCAT diary of events
February 5 Volunteer meeting 7 BCAT Preventing Mental Health launch @ Friends Institute 11-2 13 Stronger Together Network, Allens Croft 19 Health conference @Lighthouse Young People Centre 26 HIVE College Parent Info Evening 27 Touchbase Pears Arts in Health Network March 13 B'ham Uni Volunteer Fair 16 Free Spring debate @Friends Institute on ethnic Diversity in therapies 23 Spring debate @ Friends Institute on stigma of therapies 30 Free Spring Debate on right choices for clients October 28 Autism Central Conference |
Volunteer Development Programme
We are very lucky here at BCAT to work with fantastic volunteers from all walks of life. Our open meetings take place not he first Wednesday of every month, 5pm-6pm at our offices except January, July and August . If you would like to join our Volunteer Development Programme (VDP) please contact richardmole@bcat.info “It was not only the children who benefited from the Arts Therapies sessions! Their parents also participated and gained considerable new insight into their children’s behaviours and how strategies might be developed to facilitate greater understanding between themselves and their children. We hope that BCAT can continue to find sufficient funding to continue to work with us”. |
