Ripple Effects Mapping
What difference is your work really making? Ripple Effects Mapping helps you capture the wider impact of projects, organisations and your own practice, and trace how change spreads beyond the obvious outcomes. Watch our short film, download our guide to get started, and read Sophia’s tips for mapping on your own.
“Who knew so much goodness was right here all along?”
What over 55 people told us about growing creativity in Gloucestershire. On 16 September, we convened more than 55 people for a day together at the Friendship Café in Gloucester around one question: how can we grow creativity in our communities better, together?
Shaping an Inclusive Future: Our Ongoing Journey
CG’s Co-Director Tracey Thomas recently contributed a powerful post on equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) to the Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance website, reflecting on CG’s journey towards becoming a truly inclusive organisation.
Future Talent: Creative Health practice in Gloucestershire
In 2022 and 2023, Create Glos teamed up with the NHS to run a series of micro experiments designed to test and build the infrastructure needed to support neighbourhood-led arts and health. Read about the process and findings.
Celebrating Creativity: The Legacy of the National Gallery’s NG200 Art Road Trip in Gloucestershire
In 2024, the National Gallery marked a historic milestone—200 years of bringing people and paintings together—with a year-long celebration known as NG200. This ambitious initiative looked both to the past and the future, launching a nationwide festival of art, creativity, and imagination to set the tone for the Gallery’s third century.
What we learnt from our creative conversation about HOW we work together support health and wellbeing,
In June 2023 Healthy Communities Together (HCT) Gloucestershire held a Structures of Togetherness Event in Stroud Sub Rooms, a creative conversation about whether HOW we work together in the county to support health and wellbeing, matters as much as WHAT we do (hint: HCT thinks it does).
Image credit @myron_rogers
Providing Creative Health in Gloucestershire during Lockdown
Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium’s pandemic paper ‘Providing Creative Health in Gloucestershire during Lockdown’ is available to download here.
Create Gloucestershire is a Proud Member of Badge Nation
We’re excited to be part of the Badge Nation community which recognises individual achievements using digital badges.
Striving for more Inclusive Recruitment
Create Gloucestershire is continually looking at ways we can be a more inclusive employer. And over the past couple of years we have made lots of significant changes to our recruitment process to make it as flexible and accessible as possible.
We’ve put this blog together to share our learning about what we did. And at the bottom of the page you’ll find a checklist that we hope you’ll find useful.
Going the Extra Mile: a project to help those furthest from work
Public Health England have recently published a report called Health matters: health and work
The summary states that being in good work is better for your health than being out of work. You can read the full report here.
We wanted to draw your attention to one of the case studies in the report which focuses on GEM - a Gloucestershire partnership of community organisations who aim to engage and support individuals who are facing multiple barriers to employment.
Good and bad help: How purpose and confidence transform lives
How we help each other matters. Some help - what we call ‘good help’ - supports people to feel hopeful, identify their own purpose and confidently take action. Other help - which we call ‘bad help’ - does the opposite, undermining people's confidence, sense of purpose and independence.
In this publication we aim to make a practical contribution. We have drawn on a well-established evidence base and worked with practitioners to understand how ‘good help’ is applied in practice. We outline the key drivers of action and list seven key characteristics of ‘good help’.