Welcome to the London Arts and Health resource directory, here we have collated resources, organisations, networks, funding opportunities, and more, to support our members, practitioners, and organisations working across the capital. This living resource for the sector will be regularly updated, however please sign up for our fortnightly newsletter to receive further information on one-off training and funding opportunities. If you would like to make suggestions for other resources to be included, please use our get in touch page.
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- Academic Institutions
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- Key London delivery organisations
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National Lottery Project Grants: Guidance Library Creative Health update (Feb 2024)
Arts Council England has published guidance for anyone thinking about applying for Arts Council National…
National Arts in Hospital Network (NAHN)
2024 marks a pivotal year for the National Arts in Hospital Network (NAHN) as it…
Creative Health Toolkit
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) in partnership with NHS England has launched an…
The Creative Health Review
The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and…
The Creative Health Quality Framework
The Creative Health Quality Framework is a ground-breaking tool that clearly articulates what “good” looks like for…
Creative Health Havering
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES AND SUPPORT Creative Health Havering is a network of local grassroots community…
Creative & Credible
Creative & Credible supports arts andhealth organisations and practitioners to: – engage with evaluation creatively…
Healing Justice Ldn
Healing Justice Ldn build community-led health and healing that creates capacity for transformation. Working for…
Arts and Health Evaluation: Navigating the Landscape
Produced by the UCL Social Behavioural Research Group, this evaluation guide aims to give a…
Imperial College Healthcare Trust
Within this trust is the Imperial Health Charity, which pulls together a comprehensive arts engagement programme and a museum-accredited collection of over 2,000 works.
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bethlem Gallery is a subsidiary of the Maudsley Charity. Through a programme of exhibitions, events, residencies, workshops, and interdisciplinary research the Gallery strives to develop the careers, experience and expertise of individuals who are either current or past patients of South London and Maudsley.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
CW+ is an award-winning arts in health programme that combines visual and performing arts with live music and dance; participatory music, art and craft workshops; film screenings at the CW+ MediCinema; innovative design and green spaces
Barts Health NHS Trust
Vital Arts are the arts organisation for Barts Health NHS Trust, the largest Trust in the UK. We are charitably funded to deliver art projects that enhance the hospital environment and, in turn, improve the patient experience.
University College London Hospital (UCLH)
Within UCLH, sits the UCLH Arts and Heritage programme. The programme aims to improve patient and staff outcomes through the Arts. UCLH Arts and Heritage receives its funding from UCLH Charity and the Friends of UCLH.
London Business Hub: Guide for Opening, Running and Growing a Cultural or Community Space
A free resource developed by Counterculture LLP to cover legal, financial and practical questions surrounding the opening, running and growing of a cultural or community space
Southbank Centre
The creative learning team at the Southbank Centre has a strand of work exploring arts and wellbeing, including the 'Art by Post' project.
National Academy For Social Prescribing
Government funded organisation launched in 2019 dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation.
Thrive London
Thrive LDN is a citywide public mental health partnership to ensure all Londoners have an equal opportunity for good mental health and wellbeing. The movement brings together health and care leaders, residents, businesses and community and voluntary organisations to improve mental health and well-being in the capital.
Healthy London Partnership (HLP)
HLP is a partnership of London's NHS, London Councils, Mayor of London who works collaboratively on projects with the shared agenda of making London the healthiest global city
GLA Culture Team
The GLA has three major strands of creative health work they are focusing on over the next few years across various programmes they include: cultural social prescribing, dementia-friendly venues charter, and children and young people's mental health.
Hospital Rooms
Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that commissions extraordinary artworks for NHS mental health inpatient units across the UK.
Arts and Health Hub
Arts and Health Hub is a London based not-for-profit organisation that supports artists and cultural producers exploring arts & health in their practice. The Hub is artist-led and primarily for artists, although we welcome people from other backgrounds such as health and care professionals.
Rosetta Life
Rosetta Life is a group of artists who work with those living with life-limiting illness to shape and share stories that matter through movement, song, image, film and writing. We aim to transform the stigma of illness and change the perception of disability.
Arts 4 Dementia
Arts 4 Dementia helps develop activities at arts venues to re-energise and inspire people in the early stages of dementia and their carers. They liaise with arts organisation education departments, memory services care teams and other agencies including the Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK, Dementia Pathfinders, memory and care services,
Breathe Arts Health Research
Breathe Arts Health Research (Breathe) designs and delivers creative programmes, underpinned by scientific research, to improve health and wellbeing.
Portugal Prints
Portugal Prints is an arts project within Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster. We support artists living with mental health difficulties to construct a life beyond the services, a life of creativity and curiosity.
Raw Material Music and Media
Raw Material is a creative arts and music centre for young people and adults, working in both the local area in Lambeth, further afield across London, in other regions of the UK and internationally.
Kazzum Arts
Kazzum Arts uses creativity to enable children and young people who have been impacted by trauma and adversity to feel seen, heard and valued. We do this by providing opportunities to explore creative expression and agency through multidisciplinary arts activities.
The Nuffield Trust
Independent health think tank, aiming to improve quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating debate
The Health Foundation
Independent think tanks focusing on a healthier population and advocating for high-quality care that can be equitably accessed
Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD)
Study: Drama, Applied Theatre and Education BA, Applied Theatre MA
Central St Martins
Study: Masters Art and Science, a pioneering course investigating the creative relationships between art and science and how to communicate them.
Queen Mary University of London
Study: Creative Arts and Mental Health MSc. People's Palace Projects is an arts research centre within the university bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences to challenge social injustices through the power of arts.
UAL AKO Storytelling Institute
The storytelling institute launched in 2022 to bring together artists, performers and designers across UAL to challenge policies on climate, social and racial justice.
King’s College London
The SHAPER research programme assessing the effectiveness and implementation of 3 arts-in-health interventions, creative learning across the curriculum healthcare students, museums, galleries and buildings promoting arts and health work
Repair Cafe
Across London, there are three active Repair Cafes' in Chiswick, Lambeth and Putney. The cafe offers a free meeting place to find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. Volunteers are available with repair skills across different fields.
Library of Things
Library of Things is an organisation which offers people the opportunity to borrow items that they might require for their projects e.g. borrowing a sound system for a one-off event you are hosting.
Invisible Dust
Invisible Dust brings together leading artists and scientists to create exciting works of art. Their purpose is to help people to connect emotionally with climate change.
Julie’s Bicycle
Julie's Bicycle is a not-for-profit, mobilising the arts and culture sector to take action on the climate and ecological crises.
Business Climate Challenge
The Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) is an energy efficiency programme which supports businesses to reduce their energy consumption and accelerate building decarbonisation efforts in London.
Arts & Health Hub
Arts and Health Hub is a CIC which provides peer support, arts and cultural events, training and an online community for arts and health practitioners
London Action on Creative Health (LACH)
The LACH stakeholder group is co-chaired by London Arts and Health together with Greater London Authority (Culture and Creative Industries Unit) and Arts Council England.
The Health Tree
The Health Tree is a creative health network based in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, with a central hub at St Margaret's House and partner organisations facilitating creative and health-focused wellbeing sessions for local communities, to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership (SCHWeP)
SCHWep was created in 2019 by Southwark Council as a diverse network to promote borough-wide strategic approaches to culture, health and wellbeing.
The King’s Fund
Independent think tank involved in work relating to the health system in England. With some specific project work based in London
Royal Society for Public Health: Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group
RSPH is a national champion for the development of the field of arts and health in the UK. The RSPH Special Interest Group in Arts, Health and Wellbeing has the aim of supporting advances in high-quality research that leads to innovative policy and practice.
Arts Green Book
The Arts Green Book was developed with Renew Culture, ACE and Buro Happold. The guide was created to help cultural organisations, including museums, libraries, cinemas, dance studios, creative workspaces, music venues and art galleries, to become more sustainable.
Participatory Arts London (PAL)
PAL is a collective voice for people who design, produce and facilitate participatory arts in London, with a specific focus on participatory arts with young people. Open to theatre and performing arts practitioners
