Our Impact
Read stories and case studies about the impactful work we do.
The TOUS Study/Albany Storytelling Project
In 2024, we took part in a storytelling project with The Albany, as part of the Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network’s TOUS study (Tailoring cultural offers with and for diverse older users of social prescribing). The study is trying to understand how cultural organisations and creative activities or groups can support the wellbeing of older people from global majority backgrounds.
Meet Me at the Albany members, volunteers and staff participated in interviews with a researcher from the University of Oxford, and spoke about their experiences of Meet Me at the Albany. You can read the stories below:
The Award for Civic Arts Organisations 2023
In 2023 Entelechy Arts was shortlisted for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Award for Civic Arts Organisations 2023, together with 9 other inspiring organisations, for their “commitment to true co-creation and community agency“.
2020 – 2021 Trustees Report
Below you can find and download a copy of our Trustee report for the period ended 31 March 2021.
Our year together – apart
April 2020 – March 2021 in numbers
When lockdown began in March 2020, our team worked to transform our wide-reaching creative programmes to ensure that our communities, many of which were shielding, continued to have vital access to community, culture and connections during such a challenging time. We’ve created this animated infographic to remember our year in numbers.
More Than We Ever Dreamed
“Meet Me at the Albany is an inspirational example of how participation in the arts can make a real difference to our personal and social wellbeing.” - Darren Henley Chief Executive, Arts Council England
In this report, Meet Me at the Albany members talk about what the programme means to them.
Kind words
Many organisations cite and write about the impact of our work.
Here are a few.
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Age Against The Machine – A Festival of Creative Ageing Evaluation Report
This report was researched and written by Elizabeth Lynch MBE
The festival took place in Autumn 2019 and was produced by Entelechy Arts and the Albany, London Borough of Lewisham 2019 -
Creative Ageing and the City: Symposium Report
Our Creative Ageing and the City Symposium (co-produced with the Albany) provided a unique moment to reflect on the opportunities afforded by sustained arts and cultural practice in making our cities age-friendly and dynamic.
The symposium was supported by the Mayor of London’s Cultural Team and bought together contributors from London, Manchester and Tokyo.
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The Campaign to End Loneliness
The Campaign to End Loneliness inspires thousands of organisations and people to do more to tackle the health threat of loneliness in older age. They have a case study on our 21st Century Tea Dance.
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The Baring Foundation
The Baring Foundation improves the quality of life of people experiencing disadvantage and discrimination by me making grants to voluntary and other civil society organisations. They highlighted our work in a document on tackling loneliness in older age and the role of the arts.
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François Matarasso
François Matarasso created Regular Marvels. It is an independent project that explores alternative ways of understanding people’s experience of art. He wrote about our work and artists in his book Winter Fires: Artistry In Old Age.
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