News & Stories

We're delighted to welcome Dr Cath Heinemeyer to the Moving Minds Board of Trustees. Cath brings a wealth of experience in storytelling, performance, community wellbeing and creative learning, along with a deep belief in the power of creativity to connect people and enrich lives. Her work spans higher education, performance and social change, and her values align closely with our own mission to use creative movement to support health, wellbeing and belonging. We asked Cath a

Hilary Conroy is one of our wonderful directors. She is a disability rights activist, decolonising academic and registered social worker, and is involved in numerous community-focused activities across the city including York Together and York Disability Rights Forum . Hilary brings expertise in safeguarding and community collaborations as well as connections to a network of systems changers seeking to make the world we live in better for everyone. As a director of Movin

Hi, my name is Megan, and I am an occupational therapy student and volunteer at Moving Minds, a not-for-profit creative health organisation that provides creative dance sessions for people living with a variety of long-term health conditions. As a volunteer, my role encapsulates being both a physical and emotional support for participants at ‘Joy in Motion’, a dementia focused group, as well as acting as advocate for the organisation and dementia awareness outside the sessio

This November, Moving Minds is proud to launch Momentum , a year-long dance programme in York created especially for people living with...

This summer, Moving Minds had the joy of collaborating with York Theatre Royal and filmmaker Jessica Jenyns on a very special project:...

I'm Paul. I've lived in York for forty-five years. Six years ago, my wife Avril, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia, and she also...