💚 This #WorldMentalHealthDay, read how creative health through Arts on Prescription from community gardening to arts workshops can help reduce anxiety and build confidence, connection, and wellbeing.
👉 ncch.org.uk/blog/arts-on...
10.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Had numerous pieces of art work completed in OT sessions & exhibition pieces printed on a large towel…looks great & will be used to promote what we do in our creative arts & design pathway - 1st outing is the PENA awards at Birmingham University next week
24.09.2025 05:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NCCH & RSPH are launching the first Research Round-Up.
Alongside an online event on 28 Jan, we’ll publish a publicly available report summarising eligible submissions, making it easier to connect with research. Submission deadline 30th Nov ncch.org.uk/news/call-fo...
19.09.2025 11:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see this report published, which clearly outlines the impact and value of creativity on the health and well-being of our communities, for building skills and case studies from leading creative health organizations in England.
Read the report below 👇🏻
19.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
⭐️COMING APRIL 2026⭐️
So excited to announce the groundbreaking exhibition -
⚡️Strike a Light⚡️The Art & Science of Occupational Therapy
At: Rugby Art Gallery & Museum
More Info Here: elizabethcasson.org.uk/about-us/new...
#occupationaltherapy #exhibition
29.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Exciting News for creative leaders! 📣
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new Support for Leaders webpage, packed with valuable resources tailored for leaders in the creative and cultural sectors! 🎨
09.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
St George's Creative Health Strategy was devised and written by Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, in close dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders and will be launched on the 19th of June at the St. George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
Book your ticket here: bit.ly/strategylaun...
05.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
Ahead of next week's APPG - Children & Young People’s Mental Health Roundtable, we wanted to highlight some findings @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. See what young people had to say about their mental health, what needs to change, & the role of creativity
www.artscouncil.org.uk/developing-c...
29.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Creative Health & Wellbeing: Case studies
Our country is full of creative and cultural projects that improve the health and wellbeing of people and their communities.
We fund creative and cultural activities that support wellbeing in every Local Authority 📍
As we near the end of #CreativityAndWellbeingWeek, we want to celebrate some of the creative health work making a real impact to people's lives across England 👇
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23.05.2025 09:32 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Art is care: Audio stories capturing the health and wellbeing impacts of creativity
With support from a Developing your Creative Practice grant, Laura Bailey creates powerful audio stories capturing how creativity transforms health and wellbeing.
Art is care 🎧
DYCP recipient Laura Bailey brings powerful stories to life through sound - capturing how creativity supports health & wellbeing from the people who directly experience it 🗣️
Read more about the project 👇
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#CreativityAndWellbeingWeek #NationalLottery30
22.05.2025 09:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great case study by #CreatvityandWellbeingWeek exploring the development of a #creativehealth strategy at a new systems health building in Havering, NHS North East London. This creative health place-based approach is designed to address health inequalities & enhance clinical outcomes bit.ly/3ZqRYVi
22.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Link in bio 🙏
21.05.2025 09:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Youth Mental Health & Creativity
Content from four youth-led organisations we commissioned to undertake a consultation with young people across England.
Creativity matters to young people and their mental health – now more than ever.
As part of #CreativityAndWellbeing Week, we’re proud to share new findings from our innovative creative research project 📝👇
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20.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A title reads "Create Conversations: Creativity and Wellbeing". The orange and white graphic includes an invitation to join a free online panel talk on the 20th May, 5pm. It is described as "an insightful talk exploring why creativity and the arts are essential to wellbeing, and how to expand access to creative arts initiatives". Small headshots of the panel speakers appear in circles, including Dr Jess Bone from our research group.
Coming up later this month... Senior Research Fellow Dr Jess Bone will be joining @createcharity.bsky.social's expert panel to discuss how the creative arts can improve wellbeing 🧠
📅 Tuesday 20 May
⏰ 5.00pm-5.45pm
💻 Online
Learn more & get your FREE ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/create-con...
07.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Are you an NPO or IPSO in the current @artscouncilengland.bsky.social portfolio?
Today the reporting window has opened for you to upload your environmental data for 2024-2025.
By sharing our collective insights & stories, we can grow & learn from each other >> juliesbicycle.com/our-work/art...
06.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
This Summer, We’re Making Space For Joy — Zest
With The Zone on tour and a brand new show on the road, Zest's summer programme transforms public spaces into platforms for creativity, connection and youth voice – with joy at the heart.
National Portfolio Org @zesttheatre.bsky.social are reopening a free space for young people to be themselves, connect and create 💥
Plus, their new unscripted live show - fuelled by young voices, with no two shows the same - is taking a trip to festivals across England 🚌👇 #LetsCreate
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01.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Home - Elizabeth Casson Trust
elizabethcasson.org.uk
Yesterday I was scrolling the @elizabethcasson.bsky.social web & was reminded that the trust has some incredible resources for OTs all available free - our masterclass videos for example. Why not find out more about our work and resources! Follow the link and take a look 👇🏻👇🏻
25.04.2025 08:24 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Great paid opportunity for Creative Health practitioners @southbankcentre!
Apply to be on the new Artist Advisory Collective to imagine how to create space for young people to thrive & experience the transformative power of the arts.
Deadline: 29 April
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/create-learn...
23.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Send us your shorts, features & artists' moving image that celebrate diversity, change, rebellion, feminism and bold cultural identities. A celebration of independent world cinema and visual arts in #Margate UK, this November.
Submit at margatefilmfestival.co.uk/submit/
22.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Have you seen our recently published NCCH Impact Report? In this 90 sec video, NCCH Director, Alex Coulter, reflects on the report & key achievements. The Report showcases our networks & partnerships, & the progress made together in embedding creative health into systems
ncch.org.uk/news/our-fir...
23.04.2025 09:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fireworks display with crowds of people watching. Text reads “£1.35 billion: the economic contribution of Arts Council funded organisations in 2023 #LetsCreate”
Creativity means business! 🏦🔑
And public investment in arts and culture helps make it happen. New CEBR report finds #ACEsupported orgs added £1.35 billion to the economy in 2023 📖🎉👇
#LetsCreate
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Image credit: Jerome Whittingham
22.04.2025 08:55 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A very warm welcome to our next chair - Samantha Shann MSc, PGCert, Dip COT (UK), FRCOT - Elizabeth Casson Trust
♦️NEWSFLASH♦️ We are delighted to announce our next chair will be Samantha Shann
Due to existing commitments Samantha will not be joining us until Spring 2026. During this time our current chair Dee @connected2deeot.bsky.social will stay for transition.
elizabethcasson.org.uk/about-us/new...
17.04.2025 10:26 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Axing arts quangos risks ‘liberty of thought’ says Nicholas Serota
Chair of Arts Council England says arm’s-length funding of theatre, music and museums helps prevent politicisation
Nick Serota: ‘The role of the Arts Council is to act as a protector of artistic freedom, and if we don’t have that freedom then we move towards living in a country where liberty of both thought and voice is constrained’.
18.04.2025 08:53 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Caribbean Short Story Writers – Windrush Oral History Event – Spread the Word
Great opportunity✨
Spread the Word are seeking two Caribbean short story writers to take part in an oral history event with Caribbean elders on Windrush Day 📝
Deadline: 25 April
www.spreadtheword.org.uk/call-for-car...
16.04.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A blue background. Around the edge of the image are colourful overlays of pencils, collage, pastels, thread, scribbles, and a camera lens. There is a white square in the centre of the image with black text that reads Level Public Open Exhibition 2025. Below this is an image of a paintbrush painting a pink stroke and bold black text that reads Visual Art Call Out.
We're excited to launch our Public Open Exhibition 2025: Visual Art Call Out for UK based disabled artists!
This is a national call out. Details here: bit.ly/POE2025callout
#LEVEL #OpenCall #ArtistOpenCall #DisabledArtist #NeurodivergentArtist #LearningDisabledArtist #Exhibition #ACESupported
15.04.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 🌍 world art day! 🎨
Artistic practices are what make the #CreativeHealth sector.
#CreativityandWellbeingWeek starts in one month where we will be celebrating all the amazing art forms the sector has to offer. Have you added your event yet?
Link in bio 🔗
15.04.2025 12:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bringing the heritage science community together to improve collaboration, make better use of research, and demonstrate the public benefit of heritage science.
Interests: creative health, arts, nature, heritage, politics...
Trying to live more slowly, an occupational therapist amongst other things.
All views shared are strictly my own.
A joint forum between the UK government & leading figures from the creative industries, driving forward progress on key areas of growth for the sector.
CEO Arts Council England. New book ‘The Arts Dividend: How Investment in Culture Creates Happier Lives’ out 30th January.
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy interested in Food, Creative Research Methods and Design for Disability; Views are my own. (She / her)
The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Chief Executive of Thackray Museum of Medicine | Trustee @leedspiano | Chair Culture Consortium Leeds 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 Views my own ...
Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Fergus and Francie. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
OT & MOHO geek/writer - MOHOST, MOHO-ExpLOR, Recovery through Activity, A guide to the formulation of plans & goals in OT - she/her
St Margaret’s House (SMH) is a community Arts and Wellbeing Centre in Bethnal Green, East London. Established in 1889, we have a long history of serving our local community.
Creative arts organisation working with children and young people impacted by trauma and adversity.
Registered charity established 1989.
https://www.kazzum.org/
Since 2017, ICRD has been working to improve the lives and life chances of people in the region through research driven policy development, promoting social mobility, and by delivering effective community-based transformational projects.
We lead, support, and connect people and partners to deliver the GM Moving in Action strategy.
Changing lives through movement, physical activity, and sport.
Strategic Director at @gmmoving.co.uk 🐝
Economist working on #systemchange & prevention in physical activity, health/NHS, placemaking ▪ Geeky about devolution, housing, social impact ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Occupational therapist, passionate about palliative care and arts and nature in health.
Hospice based head of therapies and wellbeing services
This is not my professional account, all views are mine!
One of the most ambitious choirs in London with the variety the name implies. Next we’ll be collaborating with world renowned scholar Robert Levin for a performance of the Requiem by Mozart completed by Levin. Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/EV-Levin-Mozart
The forum for the historic environment sector in England, supported by Historic England. http://www.historicenvironmentforum.org.uk
Research Group & WHO Collaborating Centre based at the Department Behavioural Science & Health at UCL, led by Prof Daisy Fancourt, investigating how social factors affect health.
