A Creative Transformation

“A Creative Transformation” (or ACT) is a registered charity supporting adults living with acquired brain injury (ABI) and neurological conditions (NC). Our mission is to empower individuals to live creatively with their conditions through the arts and storytelling, improving wellbeing, social connection, and self-expression.

Our Charitable Purpose:

To relieve the needs of people in the UK who are living with acquired brain injury or neurological conditions by:

A) Providing opportunities for creative, cultural and storytelling engagement that support social inclusion, self-expression and peer connection;

B) Raising awareness about acquired brain injury and neurological conditions, and about the role of creativity and the arts in supporting people affected, including through publications, exhibitions, talks and events.

Our Approach:
– We collaborate with healthcare teams in neurorehabilitation units to provide 6-week creative arts and storytelling programmes.  
– We offer community-based creative sessions across the UK, fostering peer support and creativity for those excluded from medical services.  
– We build and sustain a co-directed network sharing art, stories, and lived experience to educate the public and reduce stigma.

Who We Help:
Adults across the UK, including those with traumatic brain injury, stroke, aphasia, dementia, functional neurological disorders, and related conditions.

What we do:
– We provide a proven model linking creative practice with improved mental and physical health.  
– We address service gaps for a vulnerable population.  
– We build community and public awareness through creative outputs and events.  
– Our organisation is run by experienced trustees and co-created with people with lived experience.

A taster of A Creative Transformation:
See the events we have run during our early work in ‘ACT 1‘ and ‘ACT 2‘, and our plans as we develop as a charity, in the links on the menu of this website.

This art film, made by artist Melody Parks, expresses our artistic outcomes and gives a sense of the workshop we ran at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in May 2024: