Health and wellbeing
Making and experiencing creativity and culture transforms quality of life for individuals and communities. Take a look at the work we're doing to support health and wellbeing and help us to spread the word about how art can make us feel better.
Creative Health and Wellbeing
Creative Health and Wellbeing
Creative Health and Wellbeing is a strategy detailing how we’ll work within health and social care, and how we’ll promote collaborations between organisations and practitioners in the creative and health sectors.
What the research says
What the research says
Take a look at the evidence we’ve pulled together that shows art and culture is good for us.
Support for the sector
Support for the sector
Find out more about our Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSOs) supporting organisations and practitioners working in Creative Health.
On our Blog
Celebrating Creativity and Wellbeing Week and the positive impact that creativity and culture has on our health.
It’s Loneliness Awareness Week, and as we reach 15 months since the initial coronavirus lockdown in the UK, the subject can seldom have been more pertinent. For many, separation has been a defining characteristic of this period – as we’ve all been largely confined to our homes, prevented from seeing wider family and friends by our desire to protect each other. Many of our shared social spaces, including arts venues, museums and libraries as well as pubs, clubs, restaurants and beyond, have been closed or heavily restricted. Even those of us who’ve continued to attend workplaces physically rather than digitally have been unable to engage with colleagues or clients as we would have in the past.
For Creativity and Wellbeing Week, our arts and health lead John McMahon interviews Victoria Hume, Director of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance.
Kevin Edward Turner is co-Artistic Director of Company Chameleon, a Manchester-based dance theatre company funded by Arts Council England. Here, he shares his perspective on the importance of dance to the health and wellbeing of young people, and reflects on his own experiences as a dancer and a teacher.
Social Prescribing
Social Prescribing
We’re a founding member of the National Academy for Social Prescribing. An independent charity that will lead the development of social prescribing across England to help arts and culture play an important role in community healthcare.