chART

www.chartuk.org

 

This month we have a real treat from the UK, Children’s Hospice Arts (chART).  They are a small charitable organization which aims to enrich the lives of children and young people with life limiting conditions in UK hospices through the creative, performing and literary arts, enabling individual expression, creativity and communication.  They believe that the arts can benefit a wide spectrum of disorders, diseases and disabilities and may help reduce pain, anxiety and tension which seriously ill or disabled children may experience.

 

 

They recognize that families may also derive great benefit from the arts and aim to provide sessions with their children and events arranged especially for parents, careers and siblings of children in hospices.  Caring for any child with life-limiting or progressive conditions can be demanding and stressful; involvement in the Arts may also improve the quality of life of their families, by helping people improve their mental, emotional and even physical well-being.