Creative Start Arts In Health CIC

Creative Start are a multi-award winning, lived experience, not-for-profit organisation that builds safe and honest creative workspace environments, runs community art projects to promote abstinence-based recovery, provides peer-support to inspire creativity and aims to reduce the stigma of addiction that many members experience in their daily lives.

Funding Creativity



All profits generated go towards delivering creative workshops and projects as an abstinence-based aftercare therapy solution for people in recovery from a range of different life challenges, including addiction and mental health issues.

Support and Mentoring

Our lived experience, peer-support structure focuses on using art and social contact to build trust, encourages personal development to create a sense of positive well-being and rebuilds members' confidence and self-esteem.

Creative Assistance

By assisting members with practical skills, expertise and access to essential equipment and creative activities that suit all skill levels, we help to create different forms of art that can be exhibited or sold to further support our mission.

Co-Creation and Collaboration



By collaborating with local communities, council-led services and other 'not-for-profits' to organise activities such as murals, art exhibitions and social events, we help our members bring their creative ideas to fruition.