News - No Barriers Here©

1 October 2021

No Barriers Here© finalists for The National Learning Disability and Autism Awards 2021

Please join us in sending our congratulations to Joanne, Samantha and Vince from the original No Barriers Here© co-production team for being shortlisted to the finals of The National Learning […]

10 September 2021

No Barriers Here© and people excluded by identity, culture, ethnicity race (ICER)

A project funded by NHS Charities Together will improve care at the end of life for communities within the Black Country. The Mary Stevens Hospice is partnering with Dudley Group […]

1 August 2021

No Barriers Here© Community Advance Care Plan

Take a look at our first No Barriers Here© community creative advance care plan. Participants kindly allowed a piece of their art from workshops to be included in our community […]

1 August 2021

“This is important to me; this is what I want. It’s not all about, you know, me dying. It’s about what I want in life too”

It’s here! We are delighted to share with you the film commissioned from the No Barriers Here© pilot project. We hope that this film captures the nuance of the project […]

1 June 2021

The third and final cohort of No Barriers Here© and people with learning disabilities… face-to-face!

As we near the end of this project timeline, we were super excited to FINALLY facilitate face-to-face workshops for the third and final cohort with people with learning disabilities. It […]

1 February 2021

Webinars, No Barriers Here© advance care planning workshops and film interviews

The one positive thing to come from COVID-19 is how we have adapted to working online and the ability to share No Barriers Here© with larger audiences. 2,500 people logged […]

1 December 2020

Education programme and funding news!

This month we have launched our education programme delivered in the form of online webinars to health and social care professionals and student nurses in Dudley and Wolverhampton. The webinar […]

First cohort of No Barriers Here© workshops with people with learning disabilities

2 October 2020

The first cohort of No Barriers Here© with people with learning disabilities took place during October. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the workshops took place online using Zoom. The co-production team […]

1 September 2020

No Barriers Here© is a project awarded through a grant programme funded by The Masonic Charity and managed by Hospice UK that aims to explore advance care planning using arts-based […]