Second Round of Creative Health Projects Funded Through Croydon Loves You

We’re proud to announce the second round of creative health projects funded through our Croydon Loves You 2026 grant programme, ensuring a wide-range of creative programmes supporting residents experiencing social isolation, low mood, anxiety and other challenges are available this winter.

• BLKOUT Creative Ltd will deliver Making Ourselves From Scratch, a creative programme inviting Black Queer men experiencing social isolation to meet others, explore their identify and design personalised magazine covers to share over a communal winter dinner.

• Hold It Down CIC will lead Croydon, Between Us, a visual storytelling project bringing Global Majority teenage boys together with their father/father figures to improve communication, family relationships and low mood.

• Local artist Marie Brown will deliver visual art activities at Thornton Heath Library for people ages 50+ experiencing low socio-economic status.

• Holistic Art Therapist Sara Hayfa will deliver weekly visual art workshops at Croydon Health & Wellbeing Space to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in Global Majority adults.

• Soul Purpose 360’s Carrying It Well project will utilise textile and story-telling arts to support Black women to combat stress, anxiety, depression and related needs.

• Mummy Writes will offer creative writing workshops supporting improved mood for new mums at Samuel Coleridge Taylor Family Hub and Baby Zone.

• Meanwhile, Creating Space CIC will support new mums experiencing post-natal depression in the South of the borough through Maternal Journaling: Creating Space with Woodlands Family Hub.

• Kinship Carers Hub will deliver Kinship Kitchen Cooking Club, an after-school creative cooking programme for primary school children in kinship or other care.

• Pegasus Opera’s Croydon Harmony community choir will continue to support Caribbean elders around Thornton Heath to combat social isolation.

• Our Voice, Our Stage by Majestic Community Care Services will work with care-experienced young people to devise and perform original pieces of music and drama, with a focus on improving low mood.

• Dignitate will deliver Healing Together: My Body, My Story, a programme of online creative workshops for adult carers with chronic pain, supporting them to stay connected, express themselves and better manage their condition during the winter months.

• Centre of Change will partner with Creative Voices Collective to deliver a programme of visual art and creative movement workshops for adults experiencing low mood in New Addington.

• The Link creative writing group will support adults from low socioeconomic status with diagnoses of long-term mental health conditions to improve their mood and social connectedness at Croydon Association for Pastoral Care in Mental Health.

These 13 projects join 21 projects funded during the programme’s Round 1 in April 2026 in supporting Croydon residents this year. Join the Creative Health Network to find out how to get involved, connect with Creative Health providers in the borough, hear about future funding opportunities, free training and more.