Table 1.

Description of individual projects

	Working with homeless people with mental health problems	Computer skills for people with dementia	Educating about the subtle abuse of vulnerable people	Taking theatre skills into a secure mental health unit	A mental health self-help kit	The therapeutic use of animation with children	Web-based feedback from service users	Improving service provider communic-ation skills	Working with traumatised refugees and asylum -seekers	User involvement in mental health worker training	Involving users in designing inpatient environments
Brief description of activities	Provision of user defined arts activities to homeless service users	Provision of IT training to service users with dementia	Artist and service user collaboration to produce an informative DVD about the subtle abuse	Provision of arts activities to excluded groups e.g., those within secure mental health units	The production of a prototype mental health self-help kit	This project explored the therapeutic use of animation with vulnerable children	Extension of existing web based feedback system into mental health services	Communication skills workshops and an interactive DVD for use with health professionals	NHS Trust collaboration with city farm providing gardening activities combined with therapy	Buddy scheme between service users and trainee mental health workers	Production of a prototype board game to engage services in the design of inpatient environments
Relation to statutory services	External	External	External	External	External	External	External	Internal	Internal	Internal	Internal
Changes to the hosting of the project	No	No	No	No	No	Yes - moved outside statutory services.	No	No	No	No	Yes - Trust reorganisation
Level of development prior to the NESTA grant	New	New	New	Expansion	Existing	New project	Expansion	Expansion	Expansion	Existing	New
Was the output of the project a product or an activity?	Activity and products	Activity and product	Activity and product	Activity	Product	Activity and product	Product	Activity and product	Activity	Activity and product	Product
Ethos of the project
Therapy low/high	Low	Low	Low	Low	High	High	Low	Low	High	Low	Low
USER Inclusion low/high	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High