Arts Project
We believe that creative expression can be instrumental not only in the recovery process from trauma but in exploring identity and having your voice heard. It can also be great fun!
The Rees Foundation Arts Project is an ever evolving, exciting project encouraging anyone with care experience to become involved.

Current Projects 2022

The Poetry Project
Get the creative juices flowing!

We’re launching a Rees Digital Poetry Book and we’d love for you to be a part of it!

This project is for care leavers only and we’d like your creative writing to include in the book. If you’re feeling particularly artistic, we need illustrations for the front and back covers too! When the book is complete, you’ll be able to view and share it online!

You can pick from four different categories; 
1. Who am I 
2. Taking back control
3. Family 
4. I am an outsider

Your writing should be up to 400 words long and you can write about anything related to one of the four sections mentioned above. 

Rees is here to help you along the way, and we’re running two online groups where you can develop your ideas and ask for advice if you need it. The sessions will be run by Rees ambassador Shabnam and poet Ben, they’ll be held on 24th January and 15th February, both at 6pm. If you’d like to book your place on either of these sessions, reserve your spot here.

The deadline for your writing will be 7th March 2022, and in order to submit your work, you just need to email it into contactus@reesfoundation.org.

Celebrating Everyday People

We're Celebrating Everyday People - care experienced people! We've got some pieces of writing from care experienced people about their passions in life and they can be big or small!

Would you like to write something for our Celebrating Everyday People campaign? We're looking for care experienced people to write about a big achievement, or something they're proud of.

It can be about absolutely anything, and always, you can remain anonymous if you'd prefer. Just send over your writing to contactus@reesfoundation.org.

To read, just click here!

Get involved!

If you would like to have more information, or if you would like to pitch an idea relating to any of the arts (Fine art, poetry, writing, photography, drama, art etc) please contact us via contactus@reesfoundation.org