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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 […]
Creativity and Wellbeing Week invites us to reflect on the transformative role of creativity in health. This year’s theme of hope feels especially fitting when we look at the legacy of the ADAPT study. Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and led by Dr Jess Johansson, ADAPT set out to […]
Since our foundation in 2011, Chiltern Music Therapy has been dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through musical expression. With client-led practices tailored to individual needs, Chiltern always puts people first, allowing them the creative space to explore feelings and work towards goals at a pace which suits them. We call this our “network of […]
At Art Explora, the mission for our community programming is to use art and culture as a tool for improved wellbeing to combat isolation and encourage creative and independent thinking for those in or receiving care. As part of our ‘Arts at Home’ programme, Art Explora volunteers visit residents at one of our 18 care […]
We’re a friendly community group that provides free and low-cost creative and wellbeing sessions for people living with conditions like endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS/PMOS, Premature Ovarian Failure/Insufficiency and Fibroids. Our facilitators are Lauran, an artist with a background in running community creativity workshops and an MA in Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and me! I’m Holly, a […]