Youth Arts & Health Trust

31/03/2026

Are you interested in learning more about arts therapy for a child or young person you know? You can contact us and find out about how to make referrals here

The Youth Arts & Health Trust is a registered charity based in Exeter, Devon who specialise in providing arts therapies for children and young people aged 5 to 25. We can offer face to face or online sessions and we work across the South West.

27/01/2026

Wow half way to fully booked in 48 hours! Calling all schools in Devon! We are really excited to be able to offer our workbooks and training fully funded to you thanks to Devon County Council. Our Arts Therapists will share creative exercises you can use to have conversations about anxiety, wellbeing, stress and self-care with children and young people you work with. We'll send you copies of our workbook in advance and enjoy a 2 hour online training session together to introduce you to using it. You can book your spaces here (up to 3 bookings per school) https://www.youthartsandhealth.org/training-with-us

23/01/2026

Calling all schools in Devon! We are really excited to be able to offer our workbooks and training fully funded to you thanks to Devon County Council. Our Arts Therapists will share creative exercises you can use to have conversations about anxiety, wellbeing, stress and self-care with children and young people you work with. We'll send you copies of our workbook in advance and enjoy a 2 hour online training session together to introduce you to using it. You can book you spaces here https://www.youthartsandhealth.org/training-with-us

14/11/2025

Celebrating Children in Need today and the huge difference they have made in growing our Arts Therapy Service since 2017. Here is a wonderful and inspiring brief interview with one of the first young people we ever offered arts therapy sessions to 🥰

We loved celebrating Children in Need and saying a huge thanks for our funding for our arts therapy service for anxiety and depression. Children in Need have supported us since 2017 and we have been able to make a huge difference in offering arts therapy to those on lower incomes who were also strug...

13/11/2025

We're looking for 15-18 year olds to help us co-design our arts therapy groups and arts activities and would like to come along to a focus group on Sunday 30th November 1-2pm at Exeter Library. They might be someone who has accessed our sessions before or someone who cares about mental health and young people and would like to make a difference. It will be a friendly and relaxed session. Please get in touch via info@youthartsandhealth.org or PM us. There's an arts kit to take home as a thank you for everyone who comes along.

10/11/2025

Sami, our Clinical Lead, and Zara, one of our Trustees talking on today about the impact of arts therapy for children and young people and also of the huge difference has made in helping us provide our service. Listen here :)

Sincerely celebrating the difference is making for our arts therapy service for children and young people today. Sami our Clinical Lead, and Zara one of our Trustees interviewed for this morning, giving their moving and heartfelt reflections. https://lnkd.in/g_bN78qY #...

25/10/2025

Interested in arts therapy for someone you know? Incase you missed it and fancy a listen. Our interview on BBC Radio Devon which talks about our history and what the arts psychotherapies are all about. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m2zgdk

Laura Blatherwick describes how creativity helps to change the lives of local families

22/10/2025

An interview with our Founder/Director in University of Exeter Alumni News this month. We're keen to let University students and their parents/carers know we are here and offer arts psychotherapies for those up to 25 and can help with anxiety, depression, stress, isolation and the pressures of university life.

Alumna Laura Blatherwick (Drama, 2002) is an arts therapist and charity director of the Youth Arts and Health Trust (YAHT) and today, Friday 10 October - World Mental Health Day – the Trust is relaunching.

13/10/2025

11/10/2025

Our hearts are full of gratitude for our amazing community of funders, supporters and colleagues after opening our new arts therapy rooms in Exeter Library last night!