The Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA), funded by Arts Council England, is working with arts, health and wellbeing consultant Jane Willis to develop a Quality Framework with the Creative Health sector. Quality is a situated concept. It will mean different things…
This new Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance report is the result of a six-month project funded by the Baring Foundation, working with around 150 practitioners to understand how we might help more people and organisations using creativity to support mental health to thrive. At the…
A new report has been published on the role of local radio in supporting messaging about creativity and positive mental health. Robin Simpson shares its findings. Creative expression is a fundamental part of being human; coming together to create, have fun, share…
Policymakers are increasingly emphasising the NHS’s role in addressing social and economic factors that shape health, but guidance on how this should be done in practice is limited. In this long read, we outline a framework to understand potential approaches…
Every care home a creative home David Cutler How a systems approach involving both arts and social care sectors could make arts, culture and creativity an everyday experience in many more of England's care homes. Details Access to culture is…
Absolutely Mama finds out how group singing is helping new mothers recover from postnatal depression… If you’re a new mum, you’ve probably sat on the floor of your local children’s centre singing Wheels on the Bus, babies happily rolling around…
Aesop Arts and Society created and manage this platform. Live Music Now, Sing to Beat and The Reader all helped shape its development. Financial support was given The National Lottery Community Fund. The aim of the platform is to enable social prescribers and members of…
The Centre for Cultural Value is reopening its Collaborate fund to support the development of innovative new projects between UK-based cultural sector practitioners and academic researchers. Collaborate was launched in 2021 with the commitment of investing £200,000 into the UK cultural sector over…
This conference, organised by The Creative Ageing Development Agency (CADA) for England was hosted in partnership with the Baring Foundation, the City of Helsinki and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Presentations and panels from the conference have been shared on…
At GM i-THRIVE we are preparing the children and young people’s workforce to deliver creative, arts-led provision across the system (health and social care, education and the voluntary sector), via clinical care pathways with CAMHS Services (Child and Adolescent Mental…
