Yemeni Elders’ Heritage: Collective Power Award

This blog features National Museums Liverpool’s Connecting with Yemeni Elders’ Heritage project, which was inspired by a young man Abdul, from Liverpool’s Yemeni community, who wanted to support elders living with dementia through the House of Memories programme. Abdul connected and encouraged more than 40 Yemeni young people to support the development of a dual language (Arabic and English) heritage package within the My House of Memories app, to assist elders to capture and digitize their heritage stories and traditions to share with younger people.
Doing digital arts differently: St. Helens Libraries and Ideas Alliance’s action research

Find out more about this “learning by doing” project, where the team worked collaboratively with artists, makers, library staff, residents and more to innovate and test ways to help digital arts thrive in St. Helens.
Bringing digital arts innovations to St Helens – Artist Brief

Ideas Alliances are working with St Helens Libraries to deliver an action research project that is investigating ‘What does a digital offer look like for St Helens?’. As part of this piece of work, we want to commission a creative digital arts project – inviting innovative ideas for how our increasingly digital society might affect […]
#COVIDConversations, a digital storytelling project capturing everyday experiences of people across Europe

Stories are the way we understand and make sense of our world. #COVIDConversations is a digital storytelling project providing a platform for sharing everyday experiences of the pandemic from voices seldom heard.
Three inspiring charities who have mastered digital storytelling

Storytelling is a powerful way of helping charity work. Robin Forrester looks at three charities who use storytelling to great effect.
Data for the people: a co-designed solution

The Bristol Approach empowers people to use tech and data through a model for collecting public information that is inclusive, transparent and relevant.
Sheffield Flourish

Sheffield Flourish is a growing community of people living with mental health conditions where amazing things are happening
People’s Voice Media

People’s Voice Media is an organisation that captures people’s experiences and opinions in order to influence public policy.
The Soul Relics Museum

The Soul Relics Museum bridges the museum and mental health sectors, using object-based story-telling to bring us closer to the struggle of mental ill-health.