Aberystwyth Arts Centre Gallery

✨ TEULU / FAMILY Exhibition
📍 Ceredigion
Families had the opportunity to curate their own exhibition by choosing works from Aberystwyth Arts Centre Gallery national collections of art.
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AsOne Theatre Company

✨ We Came From Ukraine
📍 Dorset
A performing arts project which gathered legacy stories, giving voice to those telling them – from both Ukrainian families and English host families.
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Autograph
Autograph

✨ Family SEND Programme
📍 London
A programme that offered free, artist-led creative workshops and resources to families with a child / children with complex needs or special educational needs and disabilities. Read more.

Boo To A Goose Theatre

✨ Storm In A Teapot
📍 Devon
A theatre show about making stories, not just those we write/draw and share with others, but the ones we tell ourselves that can be life-enhancing or limiting. Read more.

East Riding
Libraries

✨ Children’s Festival of Words
📍 East Riding of Yorkshire
A family arts and literature festival with 49 free or low-cost events delivered in libraries across the county. Activities included Bhangra dancing, puppetry, storytelling and animation. Read more.

Family Choir
Club

✨ Family Friendly Concert
📍 Oxford
50 singers of all ages took part in an afternoon performance, after rehearsing in their own smaller groups in their local area for many months.
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Jellyfish
Theatre

✨ Jellyfish Community Touring
📍 Across England
A joyfully accessible family theatre project including 117 performances, focused on reaching underserved audiences in their own communities. Read more.

Taking Flight
Theatre

✨ Summer Programme 2023
📍 Across Wales
A season of five different productions and workshops over six weeks. The inclusive cast showcased diverse role models.
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The Auckland
Project

✨ TAP into History
📍 County Durham
58 sessions and 5 activity days inspired by the heritage of Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland, an area of low engagement and economic deprivation. Read more.

The Point Eastleigh

✨ Timothy The Yeti
📍 Hampshire
A free magical winter story world for young children and their grown-ups created in partnership with The House of Many Moons.
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The Together Project

✨ Songs & Smiles
📍 London
An intergenerational music group that brings together 0-4 year olds, their grown-ups, and older people in care homes and assisted living schemes.
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The Whitworth

✨ PLAYTIME
📍 Manchester
Every summer, the Whitworth’s flagship programme, PLAYTIME, explores the ‘art of play’ with a range of activities designed for all the family.
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Theatre
Hullabaloo

✨ Hullabaloo in the Park
📍 Darlington
A 5-day family arts festival that filled South Park with bug and beastie themed spaces of creative activity, including BSL and neurodivergent friendly offers.
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Travelling Light Theatre Company

✨ Igloo Performances & Play Sessions
📍 Bristol & South West
A tour of Igloo, a non-verbal early years production, with facilitated stay and play sessions, bringing families together with creative activities to support sensory play, speech and language. Read more.

Barnsley Libraries

✨ Telling Stories
📍 Barnsley
Telling Stories was a pilot oral history project which involved spending time with house-bound individuals and recording their life stories.
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Create

✨ art:links
📍 Manchester
Weekly creative workshops, bringing together isolated/vulnerable older people to connect, build skills and nurture wellbeing.
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Helix Arts

✨ Falling On Your Feet
📍 North Tyneside
A dance-for-health programme for people aged 55+. Participants co-created dance together over 30 sessions around various themes to tell their stories.
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National Museums Liverpool

✨ House of Memories: On the Road
📍 Liverpool
A mobile cinema and museum that delivers sensory memory activities designed for community settings supporting older people, and those living with dementia.
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Step Change
Studios

✨ Let’s Dance
📍 Westminster
Dance programmes to support the mental and physical wellbeing of participants, designed for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.
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Wiltshire Music Centre

✨ Celebrating Age Wiltshire: Creative Conversations
📍 Wiltshire
Sessions with creative facilitators to support men aged 65+ with their mental health and to meet like-minded men in their local community.
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Little Angel
Theatre

✨ The Welcome Project
📍 London
A non-verbal show which focuses on themes around arriving somewhere new and unknown, created with children, artists and facilitators from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. Read more.

National Maritime Museum

✨ The Cove
📍 London
An outdoor playground designed to be SEND inclusive, with multiple accessible sensory elements to create a sense of belonging and acceptance for SEND children.
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Playful
Gardens

✨ Inclusive Family Play Days
📍 Dundee
Outdoor creative play days that nurture curiosity and joy, ensuring that every family has access to enriching outdoor experiences that contribute to their overall well-being.
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Polka
Theatre

✨ Take Your Seats
📍 London
A programme curated to specifically help Polka engage hard-to-reach families and families facing financial barriers, by referral, to see performances and take part in workshops. Read more.

Tangled
Feet

✨ Belongings
📍 Luton
A performance for Care Experienced children in Luton. An audience of almost 100 children, teachers and social workers gathered to witness the story (their story) of growing up away from your birth family. Read more.

Travelling Light Theatre Company

✨ Free Creative Holiday Activities & Meals
📍 Bristol
Activities delivered in partnership with local food charity, St Luke’s Lunch, offering storytelling, drama and craft activities alongside learning to cook healthy meals for families. Read more.

Video credits:
Awards Shortlist Films by Holm Films, BSL and subtitles by Sign Solutions.

Image credits:
Header: Travelling Light Theatre Company, Igloo Performances & Play Sessions. Photography by Alastair Brookes
Banner: National Maritime Museum, The Cove.
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