NEWS

Welcome to Garth

Garth — Gwent Arts in Health — is a charity that aims to promote and develop an arts and health programme for the patients and general public in healthcare and community settings throughout the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust area.

There is a long history of the visual arts in Gwent hospitals. The Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport was one of the first hospitals in the UK to develop a long-term art in residency programme which ran in the 1980s and 1990s.

Garth was founded to ensure that the benefits of creative programmes within healthcare settings could be developed across all the hospitals and health facilities in the Gwent area.

The importance of the arts to health and wellbeing extends to all areas of family and social life. We are now developing relationships with local authorities and other organisations to extend our programme beyond hospital settings into the wider community.

Our Partners

GARTH works in partnership with the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust which provides quality healthcare to more than 600,000 people living in South East Wales and are one of the largest and busiest Trusts in the UK. The Trust extends across Newport, Monmouthshire, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly.