A weekly arts program called Meet Me at the Albany is co-designed and co-produced with beneficiaries to be responsive to their needs. Older participants, volunteers, and artists share power to plan and deliver work together through processes that promote independence, visibility, agency, and well-being. The program embeds artists in a community space to provide a consistent experience for beneficiaries through various referral routes and a dynamic volunteer program.

1. A weekly arts programme
responsive to beneficiary
needs through the
processes of co-design and
co-production
Meet Me at
the Albany

3. Visibility &
Mainstream
Engagement

4. Agency
& Voice

5. Promoting
independence
& wellbeing

6. Embedded and
sustained practice:
“Staying connected with an arts
space in your community ”

8. Older
participants,
volunteers
and artists
sharing power
to plan and
deliver work
together

13. Ingredients

14. The artist embedded
within a civic space
that is safe and open
and owned by the
community

15. A broad range of
referral routes- self-
referral, adult social
care referral, family
referral, GP referral

16. Consistent team of
‘holding’ artists

17. A dynamic volunteer
programme

19. ‘The three weeks
I wasn’t at Meet
Me over
Christmas were
the longest weeks
of my life’