Creative Start Arts in Health CIC is a multi-award-winning recovery and arts organisation led by lived experience and driven by creativity, compassion, and community.
We believe recovery is about more than overcoming addiction, it’s about rebuilding lives, restoring confidence, and rediscovering purpose through creative practice. Our team brings together people with lived experience alongside skilled professionals and creative practitioners who share a passion for recovery and wellbeing. Together, we create safe, inspiring spaces where people can grow, make, and connect.
Through community art projects and the restoration of creative spaces, we provide opportunities for expression, collaboration, and change.
We have an abstinence-based focus within our recovery support, but we also work with artists and makers of all backgrounds, blending art, recovery, and community to show what’s possible when creativity leads the way.
At Creative Start, we believe in restoring people, places, and purpose and in using every tool available to support recovery and inspire hope.
Creative Start is where creativity and recovery come together.