Funding Update

Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition will go ahead this October as planned.  

We're sorry to share that in the process of savings being made by Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership we lost the option to continue Arts as Advocacy and Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition next year. We know this is hard news. We send solidarity to the similarly affected projects in Edinburgh, including the three other CAPS Collective Advocacy projects.  
 
🧡 On behalf of everyone involved, thank you to all who have given their support, including the Collective Advocacy Response Group, the Planning Group, our partners, exhibitors and staff in lots of other organisations. Many wrote testimonials, and sent emails to councillors and MSPs. Many read and shared our updates, sent messages, likes and positive thoughts. We also thank the Edinburgh Integrated Joint Board members that voted in our favour. 🧡 

Going forward, we will draw from this support, and we will search for funding. 

We remain resilient. We resist mental health being out of sight and out of mind. We want people with mental health issues to have their own space to come together and be seen, heard and celebrated through their art. 

The OOSOOM Exhibition Team are now focusing efforts on the 2025 exhibition. The biggest yet with 400 exhibitors, and we are proud to join the other events in the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival programme. We can’t wait to see you at Summerhall this October and November! 

CAPS funding update: https://capsadvocacy.org/news/funding-update/