Lime acts as a channel between the arts and healthcare, developing, coordinating and implementing a wide range of creative projects to deliver positive outcomes for individuals wellbeing, lifestyle choices, clinical treatment and recovery. Lime is an awardwinning arts organisation that uses creative activity to impact on individual health, bringing culture and the arts into Greater Manchesters healthcare system via the work of a multidisciplined group of professional artists. Ceramists, glass artists, visual artists, dancers, writers, film makers and sculptors Limes stable of artistic partners have improved the experience and wellbeing of patients, public and staff within Greater Manchesters healthcare system immeasurably. From its birth in 1973, Lime has implemented a dazzling array of projects. These range from largescale NHS PFI Private Finance Initiative capital build commissions and the creation of art installations in healthcare premises to workshops which enable hospital patients to explore their experiences through visual art. Limes work is about linking communities inside and outside the healthcare system and creating opportunities for artists to develop their practice. Its programme of work explores creative ways of raising selfesteem and adding new dimensions to the modernisation of the NHS. Limes central office is located within Central Manchester &Manchester NHS Trust, and the organisation also works extensively within the Pennine Acute NHS Trust, South Manchester Foundation Trust, and Withington Community Hospital. Additionally Lime projects are based in numerous community settings including local authorities, museums, youth groups, day centres, GP services and support services. The organisation also runs residencies in its own studios and with partners to encourage emerging artists, and introduce them into the specialist field of arts in healthcare. Lime is commissioned by NHS hospital trusts, local authorities, primary care trusts, and LIFT Local Improvement Finance Trust scheme builds, as well as offering consultancy on policy and management best practice in the field. We also develop our own initiatives for programmes of activity and research to further the field of Arts in Healthcare. Lime believes in engaging all parties in collaborative decision making with effective and inclusive managed outcomes.

Address: High Elms Upper Park Road Manchester M14 5RU
Telephone: (0161) 256 4389
Fax: (0161) 256 4390
Website: http://www.limeart.org/