Create

Who we are

Create is the UK’s leading charity empowering lives, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing through the creative arts. Our focus is on engaging participants in inspiring, sustainable arts programmes in areas where provision is poor and engagement in the arts is therefore low. We know that unleashing creativity ignites imaginations, develops confidence and builds relationships. Like setting off a firework, our professional artists light the touch paper and our participants discover new found self-belief and a desire to try more, do more and be more.

We design and deliver creative arts workshops to engage people who don’t normally get the chance to be creative. More than 65 projects each year bring the most vulnerable children or adults together, tackling isolation and loneliness, building skills and promoting wellbeing. Visual art workshops enable young people with serious mental illness to express their feelings and emotions; creative writing projects give homeless adults a voice with which to tell their own stories; dance workshops provide isolated young carers with the freedom to make new friends; and music enables vulnerable older people to bond over shared memories.

This is a hugely exciting time to join Create as we aim to double the reach and impact of our work by our 25th anniversary in 2027/28, and continue expanding our work in the North West.