🌟 Arts Uplift – 10 Years Celebration
🎉 Celebrating a Decade of Creativity and Wellbeing!
This year, Arts Uplift proudly celebrates 10 incredible years of uplifting communities through the power of the arts.
What’s Happening This Year?
To mark this special milestone, we’ve planned a year full of exciting activities:
✨ Inspiring creative workshops and fundraising challenges
✨ Brand-new activities centred around the number 10
✨ Afternoon Tea at Wren Hall on Easter Sunday
✨ Arts Uplift Quiz & Auction Evening on Wednesday 10th June
✨ Kenilworth Half Marathon on Saturday 6th September
✨ Special 10th Anniversary Celebration at Spencer Yard, Leamington Spa on Saturday 17th October 2026
Join us as we celebrate a decade of creativity, connection, and community. Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or you’re attending for the first time, we can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Here’s to the next 10 years of uplifting lives through the arts.
💌 A Special Message from Our Founder, Jenny Davis
“I can’t believe that on 11th August it will be 10 years since I set up Arts Uplift! It has grown from a part-time role alongside my work as an Arts Development Officer at Wychavon District Council into my full-time passion, with multiple projects running at once.
We couldn’t be where we are today without the incredible support of artists, freelancers, partners, and volunteers—so a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has been part of this journey.
It has been an honour to witness how the arts have transformed lives and brought joy to so many people—including myself whenever I visit our groups.”
🌸 Jenny Davis – Founder, Arts Uplift
🕰️ Our 10 Year Timeline
Below is a visual timeline of what we’ve achieved over the past 10 years:
💛Help us reach our 10K fundraising target
As Arts Uplift celebrates 10 years of uplifting wellbeing through the arts, we’re setting a special anniversary goal… £10,000 for 10 Years!
🎯 This 10K fundraising target will help us to:
- Deliver more creative wellbeing workshops and activities
- Reach even more people across Warwickshire, Worcestershire and beyond
- Support our 10th Anniversary Celebration in the autumn at Spencer Yard
Every donation big or small brings us closer to continuing the life-enhancing power of the arts in our community. Donate here
🤝 How Can You Get Involved?
✨ There are so many ways to be part of our 10-year celebrations:
🌟Be Part of Our 10th Anniversary Challenge – 10 for 10!
Why not help us celebrate 10 years of uplifting wellbeing through the arts by taking on our 10 for 10 Challenge? All you need to do is achieve 10 new things during 2026. Your challenge can be creative, active, thoughtful, or just plain fun!
Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Learn 10 new phrases in a modern foreign language
- Bake 10 cakes and donate to our Afternoon Tea
- Explore places associated with the number 10
- Write a poem featuring the number 10
- Carry out 10 Acts of Kindness
- Volunteer at 10 events
- Grow 10 new flowers
- Read 10 new books
- Visit 10 new places
📸 Taking part in our 10 for 10 Challenge? Share your journey with us on Facebook or Instagram, and don’t forget to tag Arts Uplift!
🏢Are You a Local Business?
If you’re a local business, then we’d love you to support our 10th anniversary celebrations! Help us continue supporting wellbeing through the arts across Coventry and Warwickshire and beyond.
- Volunteering opportunities for your employees
- Enter a team in the Kenilworth Half Marathon
- Support our £10K fundraising target
- Offer an auction prize
- Sponsor an event
Share your 10 for 10 activities by completing our short form, and we’ll send you full details on how to get involved.
🌟Let’s make 2026 a year of 10 new possibilities!
📅Arts Uplift 10 Year Celebration Plan
Each month, we will be focusing on a special theme inspired by the 10 letters in our name ARTSUPLIFT. Every theme reflects our mission to inspire and uplift people’s lives through the arts.
| Month | Letter | Focus and/or event |
| February | A | (Auction) Charity Quiz and Auction |
| March | R | (Reminiscence) Ageing Well ‘Suitcase Stories’ project. |
| April | T | (Togetherness) Afternoon Tea at Wren Hall, Wroxhall on Easter Sunday, 2pm – 5pm. |
| May | S | (Singing) Singing Groups |
| June | U | (Upcycle) Exhibition at Southam Library. |
| July | P | (Performance) Navigating Margaret |
| August | L | (Legacy) The organisation and past projects. |
| September | I | (Impact) How we help people |
| October | F | (Friendship) 10th Anniversary Celebration on 17th October 2026 at Spencer Yard |
| November | T | (Thinking Ahead) |
| December | – | Festive roundup of the year’s events |
