COVID 19 Response
We know that this is an unsettling time for us all and the country is being asked to change behaviour on a scale not seen in our lifetimes. Like us, many of you will no doubt be worried about protecting and caring for loved ones, yourselves and the community. In line with government guidelines we have taken the difficult decision for BCAT to postpone all face to face therapy sessions and workshops for the time being.
We know that this is an unsettling time for us all and the country is being asked to change behaviour on a scale not seen in our lifetimes. Like us, many of you will no doubt be worried about protecting and caring for loved ones, yourselves and the community. In line with government guidelines we have taken the difficult decision for BCAT to postpone all face to face therapy sessions and workshops for the time being.
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COVID 19 Support Resources
DOWNLOAD our Mental Health support Soothing Pack - we would like to thank all therapists and colleagues across the NHS for helping to compile this resource. ACCESS our Facebook page for a number of therapeutic activities and ideas to support your mental health during lockdown. NEED SUPPORT then drop us an email - we can offer virtual arts therapies for those who are feeling isolated and affected by COVID-19 using Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp chat funded by the Community Fund. |
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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Due to COVID19 we are pausing all community therapeutic arts work until September 2020. See you soon!
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BCAT Connecting to our Communities
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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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“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”.
Manager of under 5yrs. Child Development Centre
