{"id":347334,"date":"2026-03-25T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:38:12","slug":"bradford-art-scheme-to-help-hundreds-with-severe-mental-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347334\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford art scheme to help hundreds with severe mental illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford District and Craven Mind director of adult services Heather Butcher said the 2025 scheme &#8220;shone a spotlight on the vital link between creativity and good mental health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The personal stories shared through this work are powerful, and they will continue to inspire future collaborations that use creative practice to support well-being across our district,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme is being funded with a grant from the Baring Foundation and the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership, and will receive advice from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd03047kmv1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradford City of Culture 2025 legacy organisation, the Bradford Culture Company.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During City of Culture the programme supported patients with tickets, transport, refreshments, personalised assistance and confidence-building support to reduce anxiety around attending large events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also gave participating artists and volunteers specialist mental health training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme led to three short films sharing the lived experiences of people with mental health conditions, which were premiered at the National Science and Media Museum on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford District and Craven Mind director of adult services Heather Butcher said the 2025 scheme &#8220;shone a spotlight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-347334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}