At the beginning of 2018, Bethlem Gallery (staff, artists and volunteers), were leaping around celebrating. A major opportunity had arrived for the small gallery team to place artists and audiences with lived experience at the heart of current research into a complex area where mental health and human rights intersect. We had been awarded the largest grant in the gallery’s history, aside from our core funding, and it had been years of planning leading up to the application.
This solution-focused consultation project has been commissioned to build on previous work that has identified a systemic advice skills gap in the advice sector and some of the key challenges that are contributing to this problem.