Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance

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Art at the Start, Sheffield Museums © Andy Brown

2026: A Year of Creative Health

There are so many big in-person or hybrid events coming up this year for creative health that we're sharing a list here. Send us any other national events you know of...

A Year of Creative Health

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Of Pigeons & Peas, by The Bare Project, Manor Castle Development Trust & Manor Fields Park Allotments. Photo by Adele Drummond

Practitioner Support & Wellbeing resource

This new collection of resources brings together over 70 initiatives supporting creative health practitioners' health and wellbeing, from blogs and toolkits to training and videos.

Practitioner Support and Wellbeing resource

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Working Together Impact Report

The Working Together Impact Report, published in partnership with GEM, presents the outcomes of an 18-month programme embedding creative health practice in museums and heritage organisations.

Working Together Impact report

The South Yorkshire Creative Health Enabling Plan

South Yorkshire has launched a 3-year Plan that sets out how creative and cultural approaches will contribute to tackling health inequalities, reducing pressure on statutory services and supporting the shift toward prevention and community-based care.

South Yorkshire Enabling Plan

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Design by Jennie Ives

Creative Health Quality Framework

The Creative Health Quality Framework is a ground-breaking tool that clearly articulates what “good” looks like for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people’s health and wellbeing.

The Creative Health Quality Framework

The LENs

The LENs is a critical friend to CHWA, a network devoted to ensuring the voice of lived experience is central to policy and practice.

The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing. Join us here.