Championing Age Friendly Creativity
The Oxfordshire Age Friendly Creative Network (OAFCN) exists to ensure that older people across Oxfordshire have access to high quality creative and cultural opportunities.
Age UK research tells us that creative and cultural participation is the single most important factor in contributing to a positive sense of wellbeing in later life. The OAFCN has taken inspiration from Age Friendly initiatives across the UK, including locally in Banbury, and aims to make arts and culture an integral part of the Age Friendly agenda in Oxfordshire.
Making creativity and culture more accessible to everyone.
OAFCN supports cultural and creative partners including Theatres, Arts Centres, Libraries, Museums, Music Venues and Creative Practitioners to develop their age friendly creative offer for older people living in Oxfordshire and to ensure the arts are accessible to everyone. We want to collect evidence of good practice and disseminate the learning across OAFCN and beyond. Most importantly of all we want to celebrate the achievements and creativity of older people and challenge stereotypes.
How can you get involved?
The OAFCN is open to anyone with an interest in Age Friendly Arts and Culture. OAFCN members will receive regular updates and newsletters with information about innovative creative activities and groups, funding opportunities, research reports and other relevant information.
We will also organise themed events which will aim to generate new age friendly creative projects and activities and offer the opportunity to work with like-minded colleagues and organisations to develop new partnerships.
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Useful Reports
Creative Windows for the Jubilee project Creative Pack digital version-final[95].pdf (PDF, 5 MB)
Oxfordshire Age Friendly Creative Ambassadors Guide.pdf (PDF, 156 KB)
Framing Oxford Evaluation Report March 2021.pdf (PDF, 601 KB)
Age of Creativity printable Creative Activity Booklet June 2020.pdf (PDF, 2 MB)
Bicester Festival Age Friendly Creative Pop Up Evaluation Report September 2019.pdf (PDF, 1 MB)
Banbury Age Of Creativity Festival evaluation report May 2019.pdf (PDF, 554 KB)