• Room for You Hospital Arts
  • NCCC
  • Freeman Hospital
  • High Heaton
  • Newcastle on Tyne
  • NE7 7DN
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  • Tel: 0191 213 8614/ 213 8696

Mission

Room for You Hospital Arts aims to offer a safe, accepting and transforming space within the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, where patients and carers can engage in art activities and/or conversation. This can act as a helpful distraction and give respite from the distressing and uncertain world of cancer. We aim to meet the patient or carer where they are in their unique journey, in a respectful, caring and supportive way.

The Arts Service aims to produce very high quality, cost-effective and appropriate art work, which enhances the environment for patients and carers and the working environment for staff.

Vision

The Room for You arts project has shown a way in which art can be used within cancer treatment to provide humanity and emotional support. Our aim is to promote the methods we use as a model for work in other centres.

‘Love all the work around - it’s beautiful’

‘What you do is as important as the medical side of things’

‘What I think of your work here is - I feel more like a person and not a walking illness when I’m here.’

New Year 2012

New Funding News!
Two Major Awards from the Big Lottery Fund and from Macmillan Cancer Support.

Room for You are pleased to announce that we were recently offered £92,000 from Macmillan Cancer Support to develop a pilot for a new national community outreach programme. This award is in addition to the £197,000 awarded from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Communities programme. This award with the additional support from our other key stakeholders means that the service can continue for the foreseeable future.
Room for You Hospital Arts is currently funded by Newcastle City Council, WRVS and the Hadrian Trust.

Room for You publishes a new book!
25th November 2011 at Newcastle City Library.

'Hook into the Past' is an Oral History project that aims to preserve the memories of mat-making in the North East of England. We have collected a wealth of personal stories relating to the 'proggy and hooky' tradition during the project. Many of these memories will be published in book form this Autumn. The book will be available from the 25th November. For further info please contact Mark Mulqueen: 0191 213 8614 or mark.mulqueen@nuth.nhs.uk

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