Helen Fountain is Age Friendly Creative practitioner with a background in social care and 19 years’ experience of working in the Creative Health and Museum sector. Helen currently works with Age UK Oxfordshire and supports the Oxfordshire Age Friendly Creative Network, a community of interest which nurtures the development of local age friendly creative opportunities. Co-produced creative ageing learning resources can be found on the website Creative Later Life. Helen is also Museums Learning and Community Engagement freelancer currently working on a casual basis at the Herbert Art Gallery with a particular interest in heritage engagement for enrichment and wellbeing.
Helen has contributed a paper on the value of museum reminiscence work for the book The Caring Museum edited by Hamish L Robertson and published by Museums Etc and also co-written a chapter about creative ageing for the book Creative Health in Systems: the People, Priorities and Challenges Shaping Integration edited by Jane Hearst due to be published by Routledge in June 2026. Helen is a Dementia Friends Ambassador and has lived experience as an unpaid carer for a family member. Helen is also a Trustee with Human Story Theatre, a theatre company that aims to educate and raise awareness by creating original plays with health and social care issues at the heart.
Helen is based in Coventry and works across the region and in Oxfordshire.