Arts professionals from the Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) work alongside the school to look at the role of creativity in the social and emotional development of children, and what effect in turn it can have on the delivery of the curriculum.   The inspiration and content of this work is drawn from the local history of the area and from the heritage of local people and their diverse cultural backgrounds. 

An educational aim of the project is to support children’s aspirations early in life for higher education.  Medical students at Queen’s Campus have started

Live Arts Cafe is a caberet style social evening where people come together to eat, socialise and collaborate with artists and performers in a relaxing, safe and informal environment.

It runs every Wednesday (except from holidays) at Moorland Court, Community Day Centre.

Musical Connections is an interactive music programme for older people living in City of York Council’s residential care homes, two of which cater specifically for people with dementia.

The council’s Adult Services department has sought to develop it into an integral part of the care on offer to residents and their families by working with Community Musician, Fiona Chapman, who conceived the programme following her own academic research, and who has day-to-day responsibility for running and developing it.

The Blue Bell Centre in Knowsley had a tough job to do. Several separate GP surgeries were moving into one brand new space, to offer a streamlined and more effective central resource for the community; and whilst the new centre offered a brighter, more pleasant environment than before, some patients were worried that the move meant that the GP practices were all merging, and were sad to see the old surgeries being moved.