Creative Self-Care

Supporting Mental Health

Our beliefs about creative self-care come from personal experience and the need to discover practical ways to resilience and wellbeing, heavily influenced by:

• Positive Psychology (not 'positive thinking')
• Discovering & Using Your Character Strengths
• Art Therapy & Expressive Arts
• The 5 Ways to Wellbeing
• Action for Happiness

We also see that many people don't have access to creative supplies and yet supplies were being thrown away for various reasons - so we connect them together.

So now, unwanted art and craft supplies are made accessible to people who need them for supporting their mental health and wellbeing through active self-care.

5 Ways to Wellbeing

• Connect
  
• Be Active
• Take Notice
• Keep Learning
• Give

NonProfit & Community Benefit 

• We generate income from unwanted art and craft supplies, donated by artists, crafters and businesses.
   
• We create jobs, young people's work experience and volunteer opportunities.
   
• Surplus is given for free to local community organisations supporting children and adults, mostly in underprivileged areas.

Volunteer Opportunities - Local & Remote

Business for Good

Crafting4Good CIC is a nonprofit 'Community Interest Company' which exists to benefit the community. 

Also known as a Social Enterprise, it means we 'trade' as a business purely for 'good' social reasons.

The more income we generate from 'waste' and unwanted arts and crafts, the more people we can benefit and the bigger the impact we can have on mental health and society. 

Environmentally Driven

It's extremely important to us that we're as eco-friendly as possible in all we do, from recycling and diverting unwanted creative supplies from landfill, to using recycled, ethical or sustainable goods and services. 

So far, we've diverted over 7.8 tonnes of unwanted art and craft 'waste' from potentially going to landfill*

Donations on Hold

*Apologies but we cannot take donations at the moment, our storage is full.

These links let you check places local to you, so you can still put your donations to good use:

• My local charity shops
• My local community groups
• My local residential homes
• My local hospices
• My local churches

Affordable Supplies

Whatever your budget, we have creative goodies for you or your community group:

• eBay shop
  Bundles, bargains and collectibles as we unearth them from storage
  
  
• Printable Activities
  Instant downloads for crafters and groups - including free printables