Vital Arts delivers a high quality ground breaking, vibrant and collaborative programme of integrated arts projects for the comfort, healing and well being of patients, staff and the wider hospital community of Barts & The London NHS Trust. The Trust is one of the largest in the country, incorporating St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital.

Collaboration and participation are at the heart of our work and our projects are designed to involve and engage hospital staff, patients, relatives and the local community.

We are charitably funded and operate under the auspices of the registered charity Barts and The London Charitable Foundation. In addition to core funding from the Foundation, Vital Arts has received support from individual donors, charitable trusts, Arts Council England and through sponsorship and fundraising events.

“This is a great way to distract from being here. I was tired and really starting to miss my kids so I came down here to escape that”
30 year old patient