Every £5 submission to our draw ‘home’ competition, and every generous donation on top of it, directly supports people in Renfrewshire who are entering a new tenancy after experiencing homelessness, trauma, or instability.
Your contribution helps us provide:
🛋️Essential home items
🧑🎨1:1 support from our artist tutors
🛠️Skills in DIY, decorating, upcycling and budgeting
🥰A trauma informed environment where people build confidence, friendships and routine
💛A safe, stable home that truly feels like their own
Your creativity can help someone create a fresh start.
ENTER TODAY 👉 impactarts.co.uk/draw-home-art-competition/
Link in bio 🔗
#competition #artcompetition #preventhomelessness #impactarts #artchangeslives #makeityourown #fundraise #charity
🗳️ For the first time ever, Impact Arts is launching a manifesto ahead of the 2026 Scottish elections.
Our vision: A Scotland where people and communities benefit from life-transforming creativity that tackles inequalities and addresses poverty. 🎨
OUR MANIFESTO ASKS
📣 Scotland’s leaders, we urge you to:
1. Recognise Creative Engagement as a Public Health Approach
2. Improve Access to Creative Preventative Mental Health Approaches
3. Ensure Access to Arts-Based Therapies for Children Facing Trauma and Poverty
4. Embed Creative, Flexible and Person-Centred Approaches into Whole Family Wellbeing
5. Support Creative Ageing to Bring Joy to Later Years
6. Increase Access to Quality Arts-Based Education & Employment Programmes
7. Support Neurodiverse Young People Through Quality Arts & Creativity Projects
8. Promote Creative Home-Making as Key to Sustaining Tenancies & Preventing Homelessness
9. Celebrate Creative Placemaking
Impact Arts urges Scotland’s leaders to embed creativity across public policy. By investing in arts-based and creative approaches, we can build a more inclusive, stronger, and imaginative society.
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📖 Explore our extended manifesto featuring references to research and commentary from Culture Counts, Arts Culture Health & Wellbeing Scotland, Voluntary Health Scotland, Social Biobehavioural Research Group, National Academy for Social Prescribing, Scotland’s Mental Health Partnership, The Scottish Government, Skills Development Scotland, Children’s and Youth Arts Advocacy (CYAA), Scottish Autism, Homeless Network Scotland, and SURF - Scotland’s Regeneration Forum.
Read the full manifesto ➡️ Head to > News
#manifesto #scottishelections #artscharity
🏡 Starting next week - don’t miss out!
Make It Your Own Falkirk is a creative tenancy sustainment programme supporting people to turn a house into a home 💛
Join us to:
🛠 Learn new DIY & creative skills
🪑 Upcycle furniture & personalise your space
🤝 Build confidence and meet new people
💷 Access up to £150 to help furnish your home
📍 Falkirk
📅 Tuesdays | 9:30am – 12:30pm
If you’re moving into a new tenancy and could use some extra support, we’d love to hear from you.
📧 [email protected]
💻impactarts.co.uk/project/make-it-your-own/
Spaces are limited, get in touch today!
#MakeItYourOwn #Falkirk #FreshStart #CreativeSupport #TenancySupport #ArtChangesLives #PreventHomelessness #ImpactArts
What does your donation actually do?
When you support Make It Your Own, you’re helping provide:
🏠Essential items to make a house liveable
🎨Creative workshops to personalise a space
🌿Mental health and confidence support
🔨Skills in decorating, upcycling & budgeting
📝1:1 guidance from trained staff
This isn’t just about housing, it’s about helping people stay housed.
Your donation creates real, lasting change.
Show your support and donate today or enter our art competition by sharing your artwork of what home means to you and be in with the chance of winning some amazing prizes!
Head to the link in our bio to donate or enter the art competition 🧡
#Donation #ArtCompetition #ArtChangesLives #Creativity #ScotlandCompetition #ScottishSchools #MakeAHouseAHome #PreventHomelessness #SupportLocal #Renfrewshire #Paisley
🎨📸 From book binding and wet felting to photography, mono printing and observational drawing, young people at our CashBack Hubs in #Glasgow have been exploring a huge range of creative art forms this block!
They’ve also been experimenting with Suminagashi floating ink, mark making and creating collaborative artwork together, building confidence, creativity and new skills along the way.
Alongside workshops, the group have enjoyed inspiring trips including the Glasgow Mural Trail and the Zoology Museum, linking in with their partnership with the @hunterianglasgow . The young people have shown a real interest in taxidermy and zoology, using these themes to inspire their own creative work. 🖼️🦴
CashBack Hubs gives young people the opportunity to get involved in creative activities, try new experiences, build confidence and connect with others in a supportive environment.
And there’s more to come… 👀☀️
CashBack Summer will be kicking off in July for 5 weeks of creativity, trips, activities and opportunities for young people across Glasgow, Edinburgh, North Lanarkshire & North Ayrshire!
Head to our website to find out more and get signed up
impactarts.co.uk/project/cashback-summer
#CashBackSummer #ImpactArts #CreativeYouthWork #Glasgow #ArtsForChange #ArtChangesLives #Edinburgh #NorthLanarkshire #Irvine #ArtsCourse #CreativeEdinburgh #CreativeGlasgow @heritagefunduk@creativescots
Your support is vital in helping us reach our £7,000 target for Make It Your Own by May 20.
Whether you enter the Draw Home competition or help us spread the word, every action makes a meaningful difference.
Every artwork submitted and every donation made helps someone in Renfrewshire build a safe, stable, and welcoming home after a difficult journey.
Thank you for supporting Make It Your Own and for being part of a creative community that brings hope, comfort, and lasting change to the people who need it most. 💜
If you’d like to support the campaign but don’t want to submit artwork, you can still make a standard donation and it will have just as much impact.
👉Head to the link in our bio to make a donation or submit your entry
#ImpactArts #ArtChangesLives #ArtCompetiton #CharityCompetition #Donation #Fundraising #PreventHomelessness @hsrenfrewshireandinverclyde@uniwestscotland@creativescots@creative_glasgow@sfha_hq@bigissueimpact@paisleytownhall@artmaguk@guac_artscrafts@artspaceg41@drawartstore@spider_arts_glasgow
🎶 Two days left to apply – Music Leads (x2)
There’s still time to join Impact Arts as a Music Lead delivering creative workshops with young people at HMP & YOI Polmont.
We’re looking for experienced music practitioners who are passionate about using creativity to support confidence, wellbeing, and positive futures for young people in a prison setting.
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real impact through music, mentoring, and creative engagement.
📍 Falkirk
💷 £23.60 per hour + travel contribution
📅 42-week contract
⏰ Applications close Thursday 14 May at 12 noon
Find out more and apply via the link in our bio 🔗
#ArtsJobs #MusicJobs #CreativeFacilitation #SocialImpact #ImpactArts
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re joining the conversation around the power of taking action for mental health. 💚
At Impact Arts, we see every day how small actions can make a big difference. Whether it’s joining a creative workshop, connecting with others in your community, learning a new skill, or simply taking time to express yourself through art, these actions can help people feel more hopeful, confident, and connected.
As a community arts charity, our work is all about creating opportunities for people to improve wellbeing, foster creativity, improve life chances, engage with others, connect communities, and combat loneliness.
Through our projects with children, young people, families, and older people, we support people to take positive steps forward - together. Because while individual actions matter, collective action is even more powerful.
This week, we encourage everyone to take one small action for their mental health:
💚 Reach out to someone
💚 Try something creative
💚 Spend time in your community
💚 Ask for support if you need it
💚 Check in on a friend or neighbour
Together, we can create healthier, more connected communities where everyone feels supported and valued.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2026 #ImpactArts #TakeActionForMentalHealth #CommunityArts #CreativityForWellbeing #MentalHealthMatters
Quick question...
When you think of home, what do you picture?
🏠A building
🐶A pet waiting at the door
👨👩👦People you love
🫂A feeling of safety
We’re asking our community to draw what home means to them for our Make It Your Own fundraising campaign.
Submit your artwork for £5 and you could win a bundle of artwork, art supplies and homeware items while helping support people at risk of homelessness.
Tell us in the comments: What does home mean to you?
🔗Head to the link in our bio to find out more and enter the competition
#WhatIsHome #Paisley #CommunityArt #ArtChangesLives #ImpactArts #Fundraising #Donation #ArtCompetition
A Creative Lifeline 🎨
For over 9 years, Netta has been part of Craft Café at Viewpoint Care Home in #Edinburgh, and what started as curiosity quickly became something she couldn’t wait to return to each week.
From trying new creative techniques to even selling some of her artwork, Craft Café has helped Netta build confidence, connect with others, and find joy in creativity.
“It’s so relaxed… there’s lots of laughter too so that can’t be bad!”
Craft Café offers residents a safe, welcoming space to express themselves, boost wellbeing, and enjoy meaningful social connection.
Stories like Netta’s remind us that creativity doesn’t just fill time - it transforms it.
👉 Read more about Netta’s journey and the impact of Craft Café: /a-creative-lifeline-nettas-story-at-craft-cafe-edinburgh/ or via the link in our bio
#ImpactArts #CraftCafe #CreativeAgeing #ArtsInCare #Wellbeing #Edinburgh #CareHomeLife
Anyone can do this - you don’t need to be an artist to take part!
We’re looking for artwork inspired by home in all its forms; a feeling, a memory, a place, the people you love, or what makes you feel you belong.
🎯Open to all ages across Scotland
🎯Any art form welcome - drawing, painting, photography, digital, collage & more
🎯No experience needed
🎯£5 to enter, supporting the Make It Your Own programme
🎯All entries featured in our online gallery
🎯Deadline: 20 May
The top 10 entries will be displayed at @theboardwalkgla in Glasgow and take part in a free group art workshop 🎨
One overall winner will receive a brilliant bundle of art supplies, homeware, and more 🖼️
Give it a go - your creativity could help someone build a place they can call home
👉 Find out more and enter here: impactarts.co.uk/draw-home-art-competition/ or head to the link in our bio
#artcompetition #artchnageslives #impactarts #artcontest #scottishart #competition #fundraising #donate #artscharity #scottishcharity #charity #artistopportunity
We’re hiring x2 Music Leads🎶
Impact Arts is looking for experienced, passionate music facilitators to deliver inspiring workshops with young people at HMP & YOI Polmont.
This is a unique opportunity to support creativity, build confidence, and help shape positive futures through music in a challenging but incredibly rewarding environment.
📍 Falkirk (with some training in Glasgow)
💷 £23.60 per hour (£165.20 per day) + travel contribution
📅 Wednesdays, 8am–4pm (42-week contract)
⏰ Apply by 14 May, 12 noon
⚠️ Previous experience working in a prison (or similar setting) is essential
👉 Find out more + apply: impactarts.co.uk/were-hiring-x2-music-leads/
Or through the link in our bio 🔗
#ArtsJobs #MusicJobs #CreativeCareers #ImpactArts #ArtChangesLives #Falkirk
