Building a better tomorrow for everyone, everywhere
Projects
Each year, we deliver a diverse range of projects in partnership with various organisations, tackling a wide array of themes. What unites all our work is a steadfast commitment to being community-led, shaped by the living and lived experiences of those most affected by each issue.
Below are three different examples of our work.
Creative Mental Health
People Street are research partners of the Red Earth Collective. We have been collaborating since 2022 on the Artist Development programme in Birmingham. The programme delivers creative activities in secure and community mental health settings. The aim is to reach racialised communities to tackle social injustice, challenge mental health stigma and support mental wellbeing. Red Earth practitioners work in pairs to co-design and facilitate creative sessions with and for people with a lived experience of mental health challenges in secure units, prisons and community settings.
This year we are supporting Red Earth with qualitative research and toolkit development informed by research conversations with facilitators, artists, and individuals with lived experience. It will include a comprehensive review of existing literature, case studies, and interviews with artists who have successfully conducted creative sessions in mental health settings. The toolkit will be designed to be adaptable and user-friendly, ensuring artists can easily incorporate its principles into their own practice. The dissemination event will take place in the Spring of 2025.
Grassroots Cancer Research and Awareness
Funded by the North East London NHS as part of the NEL Cancer Alliance programme. Research into understanding the barriers to access and attitudes towards screening. Including grassroots sessions in Tower Hamlets and Redbridge raising awareness and building confidence of women to participate in screening programmes. Sessions were delivered in mother-tongue by Community Researchers.
Between November 2024 and February 2025, we reached over 320 women from marginalised communities. We will be sharing our findings report in April 2025.
Volunteer Training and Evaluation
Funded by Westminster Council this is a partnership project with Design Agency The Flourish Group. We delivered a grassroots volunteer training programme in Maide Vale building the capacity of local volunteers to work together to support the Ernest Harriss House Community Hub. Includes research into the impact of the training on volunteers which will be published in April 2025 when the Hub formally opens..
