Image credit: Margaret Greenfields   For health systems to work for everyone, we need to understand how they work in practice. So often, important decisions are made without meaningful inclusion of the people that they affect. Co-create have been working with the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme to understand how using creative […]

Image from Imagining the Forest, international community collaboration between Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, the Guarani Mbya indigenous people and Karachi Biennale (2025), photo credit Anne Tetzlaff   Summer solstice 2025 saw hundreds of people watch a remarkable performance, Stand of the Sun, created by Bryony Ella with composer Bumi Thomas. Funded by a Wellcome […]

Written by Dr. Ada Xiaoyu Hao, Evaluation Project Manager/KTP Associate, University of Roehampton   If you are a small community organisation, you may spend more time writing funding applications than delivering the work itself. If you work in mental health support, you may feel trapped between overwhelming demand and limited capacity. If you run community […]

Group poem in the making   Your Write to Well-being, founded and facilitated by Helen McSherry   It is an honour for me to be telling you about the vibrant writing for well-being group at Barry Library, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. This group give of themselves to one another, and connect on a level that […]

BUY NOW To celebrate nearly 15 years of Creativity and Wellbeing Week, London Arts and Health alongside special guest editors Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance and Arts and Homelessness International have curated a very special edition of the Big Issue, celebrating all things Creative Health. Introduction to the special edition Today marks the opening of […]

My name is Sophie, and I’m lucky enough to be the Arts, Events and Wellbeing Manager for the North York Moors National Park Authority. It’s a landscape of dramatic beauty and rich heritage, and for centuries it has drawn in artists and writers. That creative pull is just as strong today, but our remoteness can […]