Staffordshire Arts & Museum Service is responsible for the development and delivery of the County Council's arts and museum's policy. It manages the Shire Hall Gallery and the County Museum at Shugborough Hall, and supports the activities of the New Victoria Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

It administers various arts grants, runs education and outreach services and advisory work and also is a key member of Staffordshire Arts Development Officer Group, an organisation consisting of Arts Development Officers through the county.

Contact:

Nigel Singh, Strategic Arts Development Officer, Staffordshire
Arts and Museums Service
Shugborough, Milford, Stafford, ST17 0XB
Telephone: 01889 881 388
Email: nigel.singh@staffordshire.gov.uk
Web: www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sams

It aims to promote and develop access, creative practice, investment and advocacy on behalf of the arts for the benefit of all people in the West Midlands region. Since April 2003 intensive work has taken place in laying the foundations for growth in the arts and health field and putting mechanisms into place which will ensure long-term continued development.

Launched in October 2002, Creative Remedies is an Arts and Health website developed for health professionals, artists, local authorities and arts organisations across Staffordshire and the West Midlands.

Led by Staffordshire County Council's Arts and Museum Service and Arts Council England, West Midlands, Creative Remedies is a regional resource that enables individuals and groups involved in arts and health work, and those who wish to become involved, access to experience, good practice, information and creative ideas.

The lead partners are keen to build on the achievements made in the first eighteen months, whilst equally, wishing to improve in some areas and address issues that include the site's maintenance, marketing and ongoing development. To achieve this, a bid to ACE-WM's Grants to the Arts scheme was submitted in November 2003. The bid sought to address key development areas related to the Creative Remedies site and create a Staffordshire wide Arts & Health Forum (the first of it's kind in any county). Key to this was the creation of a Project Co-ordinator's post. In May 2004 Creative Remedies Future Remedies was awarded £59,000 for three years of development work and with additional resources from partners, the total pot for the project stands at £77,000.