OPEN Ealing aims to provide refreshing cultural spaces and exciting arts programmes to the community by bringing artists, performers, art groups and residents together, promoting creativity and creating new opportunities for local residents and attracting people from beyond the borough.
They provide low cost workshops in a range of artistic activities for the people of Ealing which include visual art, creative writing, theatre and music. They also increasingly run recuperative therapy workshops as a means of enhancing well-being for a wide range of people.
We helped fund their OPEN Creativity for Wellbeing project, one of their new recuperative therapy offerings. This helped nearly 500 people with a range of mental and physical problems through classes in art, writing and theatre. We are also working with them on a council-sponsored outreach project to Northolt, which aims to support local community and voluntary groups there.