CHWA Awards 2022
The CHWA Awards 2022 will be launched on Friday 20 May 2022, 12.30-1.30pm.
Gather with CHWA award partners and special guests to launch the CHWA Awards 2022 programme, which is designed to amplify the innovative, collaborative and generous work of the culture, health and wellbeing sector.
Hear from past winners, Cody Dock (Climate, 2021), Outside Edge Theatre ( Collective Power, 2021) and Plymouth Music Zone ( Practising Well, 2020), and learn more about the award categories that aim to shine a light on work that models meaningful co-production and partnership, embeds practitioner support and connects the dots between creativity, health inequalities and climate justice.
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This event is part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2022.
CHWA 2021 Awards
Watch the 2021 Awards ceremony on YouTube, hosted by CHWA's Hayley Youell and introduced by our Chair, Esmé Ward:
CHWA Award-winners and shortlists for 2021 are listed below:
Collective Power in partnership with Ideas Alliance and The Lived Experience Network (The LENs)
Shortlist: Boats on an Ocean | Breathe Arts Health Research (Breathe): NHS Staff Wellbeing Programme | Dance On, Yorkshire Dance | Joy of Sound | Maternal Journal | Misery Meets | Outside Edge Theatre Company
Highly Commended: Maternal Journal AND Misery Meets
Winner: Outside Edge Theatre Company
Practising Well in collaboration with Nicola Naismith
Shortlist: GEM One to One Mentoring Programme nominated by Sarah English (Birmingham Museums) | Kazzum Arts nominated by Lisa Hayes | North Bristol NHS Trust Fresh Arts nominated by Sophie Dunn (Live Music) | Opus Music CIC nominated by Sarah Matthews | Soundcastle nominated by Caoimhe de Paor | Thriving Facilitators nominated by Ally Walsh
Winner: Kazzum Arts
Climate, in partnership with Culture Declares and the Happy Museum project
Shortlist: Be-coming Tree | Collaborate, Cartwheel Arts | Cody Dock, Gasworks Dock Partnership | HOME Carbon Literacy Training: Remote Delivery | The Isthmus Project | Wellbeing Pathfinders, North Bristol NHS Trust
Highly commended: Collaborate, Cartwheel Arts
Winner: Cody Dock, Gasworks Dock Partnership
Background
Although the world and life as we know it has changed since we launched the CHWA 2020 Awards in the winter of 2019, we and our partners believe that the themes of collective power (partnership), practitioner wellbeing and climate are ever more relevant and important. We also recognize that we cannot go forward without addressing the connections between our work and health and cultural inequalities – and specifically the impacts of racism.
During the pandemic, we have seen the culture, health and wellbeing sector respond with creativity, imagination and kindness to meet global crisis, local need and individual loss. As partnership and collaboration have driven innovation and greater reach, the need systematically to support wellbeing across the sector, respond to the climate and ecological emergency and its relationship with global and local inequalities is becoming clearer.
We were looking for projects, organisations and people who led the way through lockdown or are learning from this challenging time to build a better future.