Spare Tyre is resident at Haynes Dementia Hub, as part of a ground-breaking new programme of arts activities for people living with dementias in the London Borough of Haringey.
Every week, we visit the Haynes Centre, a specialist dementia hub providing daytime services to people living with dementias.
As dementia arts specialists, we lead participatory arts activities throughout the day, helping embed creativity into the Centre's regular practice.
Funded by City Bridge Trust and led by Jacksons Lane, other project partners are Homes for Haringey, Haringey Dementia Hub, and Haringey Public Health.
Spare Tyre is a leader in the field of dementia arts, bringing a wealth of experience of engaging with people living with dementias and their carers.
This project began October 2017 and continues until 2020.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are adapting Together into a new initiative–Together Through Your Letterbox.
This project is all about bringing people from different sectors together, putting wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, and working at a very local level. The arts have the power to make these connections, creating real social change. We’ve worked with people with dementia and carers since 2010, and this project is another exciting step forward for us in developing this work.
Arti Prashar, former Spare Tyre Artistic Director